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He came from a noted legal family: his grandfather, Gerald Fitzgibbon was a Queen's Counsel and Master in Chancery and his father, also Gerald Fitzgibbon, was a Lord Justice of the pre-independence Irish Court of Appeal: along with Christopher Palles and Hugh Holmes, the elder Fitzgibbon was credited with making the Court of Appeal a tribunal whose judgements are still quoted with respect today.
He was in private practice in Chicago, Illinois from 1917 to 1924, when he was appointed a Master-in-chancery, Circuit Court of Cook County.
He was the second and youngest, but only surviving son of Sir William Smyth, 1st Baronet, of Redcliff in Buckinghamshire, by his second wife, a daughter of the Master in Chancery Sir Nathaniel Hobart.
He was descended from a family owning the manor of Broad Oak at Hardres, near Canterbury, and was fourth son of Sir Thomas Hardres and Eleanor, sole surviving daughter and heiress of Henry Thoresby of Thoresby, a master in chancery.
He was a master in chancery for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Illinois from 1912 to 1918.