Australian civil servant Sir David Iser Smith, KCVO, AO (9 August 1933 – August 2022). Between 1973 and 1990, he served Sir Paul Hasluck, Sir John Kerr, Sir Zelman Cowen, Sir Ninian Stephen, and Bill Hayden as the Official Secretary to the Governor-General of Australia.
David Smith’s cause of death
Sir David, the father of three sons, passed away at age 89. His cause of death is not yet known but it is believed that he died a natural death. He spent his final years in Canberra, where he volunteered for a number of organizations and gave tours of Old Parliament House.
He was born in 1933, started working for the government in 1953, and was appointed private secretary to the minister of the interior and works in 1958. In 1973, he was appointed the governor-official general’s secretary under Sir Paul Hasluck.
He published a book titled Head of State that was his personal description of the events of 1975 and was a member of Australians for Constitutional Monarchy.