The only known picture of the greaet man himself, Tom Smith 1823 - 1869.
From Tom Smith and the History of the Christmas Cracker:
"Information is pretty scarce but copious trawling through various censuses have yielded the fact that Tom Smith, the son of Thomas (a grocer) and Pricilla was born on October 18th 1823 but had sadly departed for the big Cracker factory in the sky on March 13th 1869 probably from stomach cancer at the unfairly young age of 46. For those who might like to try to dig a little deeper in this area, be prepared to encounter the Victorians' love for the names Thomas and Martha (Tom's wife) and the frightening number of people with the surname Smith, at which point the reality of the search for information hits home in a big way."
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