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 THE SMITH FAMILY
 
 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 BEING A POPULAR ACCOUNT OF MOST 
 
 BRANCHES OF THE NAME HOWEVER 
 
 SPELT FROM THE FOURTEENTH 
 
 CENTURY DOWNWARDS, WITH 
 
 NUMEROUS PEDIGREES NOW 
 
 PUBLISHED FOR THE 
 
 FIRST TIME 
 
 COMPTON READE, M.A. 
 
 MAGDALBN COLLEGE, OXFORD ', RECTOR OF KENCHE6TER 
 
 AND VICAR OF BRIDGE SOLLARS. AUTHOR OF 
 
 "A RECORD OF THE REDES," " UMBRA CCELI," 
 
 "CHARLES READE, D.C.L. : A MEMOIR," 
 
 ETC. ETC. 
 
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 62 PATERNOSTER ROW, E.G. 
 
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 GEORGE W. MARSHALL, ESQ., LL.D. 
 
 ROUGE CROIX PURSUIVANT-AT-ARMS, 
 
 LORD OF THE MANOR AND PATRON 
 
 OP SARNESFIELD, THE ABLEST 
 
 AND MOST COURTEOUS OF 
 
 LIVING GENEALOGISTS 
 
 WITH THE 
 CORDIAL ACKNOWLEDGMENTS OF 
 
 THE COMPILER
 
 CONTENTS 
 
 CHAPTER PAG bi 
 
 I. MEDIAEVAL SMITHS 1 
 
 ii. THE HERALDS' VISITATIONS ... 9 
 
 III. THE ELKINGTON LINE .... 46 
 
 IV. THE WEST COUNTRY SMITHS THE SMITH- 
 
 MARRIOTTS, BARTS 53 
 
 V. THE CARRINGTONS AND CARINGTONS EARL 
 CARRINGTON - - LORD PAUNCEFOTE - 
 SMYTHES, BARTS. BROMLEYS, BARTS., 
 
 ETC 66 
 
 VI. ENGLISH PEDIGREES . ... 96 
 
 vii. ENGLISH PEDIGREES continued . .123 
 
 VIII. SCOTTISH PEDIGREES . . . .176 
 
 IX. IRISH PEDIGREES . . . . .182 
 
 X. CELEBRITIES OF THE NAME . . . 200 
 
 INDEX (1) TO PEDIGREES 265 
 
 INDEX (2) OF PRINCIPAL NAMES AND PLACES . 268
 
 PREFACE 
 
 I LAY claim to be the first to produce a popular 
 work of genealogy. By " popular " I mean one 
 that rises superior to the limits of class or caste, 
 and presents the lineage of the farmer or trades- 
 man side by side with that of the nobleman or 
 squire. As a matter of history, much ancient 
 Norman blood has descended to the lower social 
 stratum, and I have met thereabouts such chivalrous 
 names as Quatremain, Turberville, and Louches, 
 while in high places may be found the descendants 
 of men who were serfs to those followers of 
 William the Conqueror. Apart from that, Geneal- 
 ogy, a science which should by rights be the hand- 
 maid of history, will never escape the reproach 
 of snobbishness, until it broadens downward. An 
 eminent American aphorised, that " The History of 
 England is the history of the families " ; but this is 
 only true, if we exclude artificial limitations, and 
 endeavour to follow up, not merely the leading, 
 but the minor strains also. And while in this 
 research we often enough discover the wearer of a 
 coronet to have sprung from proletarian ancestors, 
 we also occasionally carry back the lineage of the 
 man in the street to that of the man at the helm. 
 Genealogy, therefore, ought to be an open book, 
 and in this volume an attempt has been made to 
 disclose some of its hitherto uncut pages. 
 
 Among the vast multitude of Smiths, I cannot 
 pretend to cover the entire ground. The principle 
 of arrangement, dominating this volume, may be 
 
 b ix
 
 x PREFACE 
 
 thus stated : where a descent is given, which 
 already has appeared in one or more of the 
 ordinary genealogical works of reference, it has 
 been necessary, owing to the exigencies of space, 
 to condense as far as has been compatible with 
 perspicuity; where, on the other hand, a pedigree 
 is presented for the first time, the fullest obtainable 
 details have been appended. To have omitted 
 pedigrees already published would have been to 
 render the work lopsided ; but the genealogical 
 value of the book rests mainly on those descents 
 which have not appeared elsewhere. I could wish 
 there were more of them, or that I had been able to 
 research further, where a clue has been afforded. 
 But genealogy to me is of necessity a parergon, and 
 there are only twenty-four hours in the day. 
 
 The book professes to review the great Fabrician 
 family, whether crisped as Smith, " smoothed into 
 Smyth," or "smidged into Smijth." To have given 
 pedigrees only would have been to present a flat 
 surface. I have therefore added a precis of such of 
 the name as have attained celebrity, and here the 
 practical character of the gens goes far towards 
 proving the doctrine of inherited characteristics. 
 For these descendants of primitive iron-workers 
 include scarcely a poet or an idealist, while in 
 matters practical they stand pre-eminent. 
 
 Whatever we are we were, 
 
 And whatever we were are we, 
 
 And whatever we are, and whatever we were 
 
 That same shall we always be. 
 
 I have to acknowledge indebtedness to a very 
 great number of courteous and patient correspond- 
 ents among them George W. Marshall, Esq., LL.D., 
 Rouge Croix Pursuivant, and Squire of Sarnesfield, 
 with his son, Mr George Marshall of the Batch ; 
 Rev. W. D. Macray, Fellow of Magdalen; H. V. Reade 
 of Ipsden, Esq. ; The Hon. Mrs Stapleton ; H.
 
 PREFACE xi 
 
 Baskerville, Esq. of Oriel ; H. F. J. Vaughan of 
 Humphreston, Esq. ; H. Staffurth, Esq. of Bowdon ; 
 Sir J. S. Purcell ; Lionel Horton Smith, Esq. ; 
 Dr Last Smith of Torquay ; Hamilton Faber, Esq. ; 
 W. F. Ecroyd, Esq., late M.P. for Preston; W. H. 
 Smyth, Esq., Elkington Hall; Colonel Smyth of 
 Annables ; F. Hawkins, Esq., J.P., C.C., Sugwas ; 
 J. W. Smith, Esq., J.P., C.C., of Thinghill Court; 
 Alderman W. Smith of Chichester; Rev. Kenelm 
 H. Smith; Rev. C. E. Butler; Mrs Chambers of 
 Ludlow ; Mrs M. E. Smith of Southfield House ; 
 J. U. Smith-Dorrien, Esq. of Tresco ; Mr Abel 
 Smith of Woodhall; W. Maxwell Smyth, Esq. of 
 Drumcree ; Arthur M. Smith, Esq. of Lincoln's 
 Inn Fields, the learned historian of the Smiths of 
 Exeter ; the Rev. E. U. Smith, also author of an 
 able pedigree of the same lines ; J. W. Smith, Esq., 
 J.P., Thinghill Court; Joseph Smith, Esq. of Great 
 Saling, and Miss S. Smith ; F. Smith, Esq., Mount 
 Park, Coggeshall ; Sir S. Maryon Wilson of East- 
 bourne, Bart.; A. F. Herford, Esq., Macclesfield ; 
 J. Dixon, Esq., Barrow-in-Furness ; Miss E. Percy 
 Smith, The Holt, Ledbury ; Sir George Smith of 
 Treliske ; Ernest S. Pink, Esq. ; James Ward, Esq. , 
 the widely -known antiquarian of Nottingham ; Mrs 
 J. M. Smith of St Mary's Mount, Leeds ; Miss L. 
 M. Sidnell ; Major Villiers Downes of Aspley ; Mrs 
 Giles, Ashby Folville ; Miss Lucy F. Smith of 
 Beccles ; A. Holland Hibbert, Esq. ; George A. 
 Smith, Esq., of Helmshore ; Edward Smith, Esq., 
 of Wribbenhall ; Rev. Irton Smith of Ilkley ; Rev. 
 N. H. Smith, Belfast; H. L. Norton Smith, Esq., 
 of Edinburgh ; John Yarker, Esq., of Didsbury ; 
 Dr George Smith, C.I.E., Edinburgh; H. Arthur 
 Smith, Esq., Elm Court Temple ; Mrs Rooke, 
 Thorpsfield, Thirsk ; W. Macadam Smith, Esq., 
 of Wiveliscombe ; Rev. W. H. Rusby of Felton ;
 
 in PREFACE 
 
 J. Hasley Smith, Esq. of W. Bridgeford ; Miss 
 F. H. Haines of Bangor, co. Down ; Charles J. 
 Smith, Esq., of Charmouth ; W. H. Smyth, Esq., 
 of Hillsborough ; Mrs Willcocks, The School, 
 Warrington ; B. P. Scattergood, Esq., of Leeds ; 
 Rev. A. E. Aldworth, Dover ; Rev. Father Morrall, 
 O.S.B., Downside Abbey, Bath ; Miss E. A. Smith, 
 Monaghan ; Miss Morris, Hereford ; the Rev. C. H. 
 Bulmer, R. of Credenhill, for permission to search his 
 Parish Registers ; Mrs Harrison of Windermere ; Mrs 
 Leah Smith ; Alderman C. T. Smith of Rochester ; 
 C. M. Smith, Esq., Firdall, Bowdon ; A. C. Godden 
 Smith, Esq., of Wick ; Miss B. A. Clough, Principal 
 of Newnham College, Cambridge ; Miss M. B. 
 Percival Smith of Brighton ; Sir Edmund Verney, 
 Bart. ; Captain Frederick Verney ; J. L. Travers, 
 Esq. of Warlingham ; L. H. Shore Nightingale, Esq. ; 
 Willoughby Gardner, Esq. ; and Lord Carrington. 
 
 And last, but by no means least, I have to express 
 my grateful acknowledgments to Mr Elliot Stock, 
 for his kindness in lending me books and in verify- 
 ing references. Residing at a distance remote from 
 London, Oxford, and libraries generally, this assist- 
 ance to me has proved invaluable, all the more so 
 because accorded so readily and ungrudgingly. 
 
 One word more. Several correspondents have 
 inquired whether I am Smith disguised as Reade, 
 or failing that hypothesis, if I happen to be blessed 
 with a powerful strain of Smithish ichor? I can 
 only reply, that, so far as I know, I cannot boast 
 a single drop of Smith blood, and indeed, the only 
 link between myself and the Smyths is through the 
 Annables line, Judith, niece of my ancestress, Helen 
 Lytton of Knebworth, having married Sir George 
 
 Smyth of Annables. 
 
 COMPTON READE. 
 
 KKNCHESTER RECTORY,
 
 INTRODUCTION 
 
 " THE history of the name and race of Smith has 
 yet to be written. It would be too gigantic a task 
 for any author to undertake ; but there are numerous 
 pedigrees of families of this name, as well in print 
 as in MS., which, if collected, would form a most 
 curious and interesting volume." 
 
 Thus Mr Grazebrook, author of that excellent and 
 most instructive treatise, "The Heraldry of Smith," 
 his own family being allied to that of the Lea- Smiths 
 of Halesowen, senior co-heirs of the Barony of Dudley. 
 It is, as he urges, absolutely true that a lifetime 
 and the fortune of an American billionaire would 
 not suffice for an exhaustive history of all the Smiths 
 in all four quarters of the globe. Even as regards 
 England, it would require a special Heralds' Visita- 
 tion to catalogue the pedigrees of Smiths in each 
 county, city, and township, while the visitant heralds 
 would have to be armed with powers to investigate 
 every parish register, every diocesan register, and 
 the entire corpus of archives and muniments, whether 
 public or private. For an individual destitute of 
 authority to attempt anything so supremely heroic 
 would be futile. Enough, therefore, if in these pages 
 Mr Grazebrook's suggestion of a collection, or com- 
 pilation, of Smith pedigrees may have assumed, 
 however imperfectly, a concrete form. The example 
 of Prometheus has been followed, so far as circum- 
 stances permit, and the reader will find herein : 
 
 " particulam undique dissectam," 
 
 for the net has been broadcast, and thereinto have 
 
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 xiv INTRODUCTION 
 
 been swept the records alike of illustrious, or 
 reputable, houses mostly already known per the 
 recognised channels of genealogical information 
 and also of humbler folk. Here will be found the 
 lineage, not merely of such ennobled Smith families 
 as Carrington, Pauncefote, Lyveden, and Hambledon, 
 not merely of those that have won a niche in the 
 Walhallas of Burke and Walford, but of numerous 
 others also appearing now in print for the first time. 
 Many, if not all of these, to the genealogist, will 
 prove at least as interesting as, say, " The Familiae 
 Minorum Gentium," while to the general reader 
 they may serve as apt illustrations of the ratio of 
 progress, which during the past century has been 
 upraising the status of the middle and lower middle 
 orders. Others a few only represent no more 
 than the descent of families who have neither ad- 
 vanced nor receded e.g. farmers who were farmers 
 when Farmer George was king; keepers who have 
 never lost their congenital love of the covert ; 
 Smiths who have been so by trade as well as in 
 name. These samples show the conservatism of 
 the Shires ; for, be it remarked, the tendency of 
 trade is to mount one step higher, per the leverage 
 of banking, brewing, manufacture, the law, arms, and 
 other avenues of success. 
 
 It may be noticed generally, that as regards the 
 great gens Smith, the prime foundations of opulence 
 have been laid in some one of the forms of Protestant 
 dissent. Upon this phenomenon I make no comment. 
 Simply these pages attest the fact. No doubt the 
 self-contained and ascetic habit of the sects has 
 proved ancillary to the accumulation of wealth. The 
 aims of society have always been more or less hed- 
 onistic, and a refined sestheticism, almost as much 
 as luxury, ostentation, and the gambling craze, has 
 proved in effect a leakage. Where there existed
 
 INTRODUCTION xv 
 
 neither the desire, nor indeed the temptation, to 
 spend even the surplus of a penuriously- earned 
 increment, saving, and hoarding, and re-duplication 
 have followed as the necessary corollary of industry 
 and a quickened commercial intelligence. These 
 tradesmen Smiths, whose patient labour and willing 
 self-denial so largely assisted in the creation of a 
 reserve of national wealth, have often been accused 
 of serving mammon rather than God, while their 
 phase of religion has been denounced as hypocrisy. 
 Consistent lives, philanthropic zeal, above all, the 
 blessing which has attended them to the third and 
 fourth generation, afford a rejoinder to any such 
 calumnies. So far as the Smiths represent a type, 
 one may affirm, that without them England would 
 have been small indeed. 
 
 It is curious, but true in the main, that the little 
 letter " y " has proved a huge differentia. For 
 whereas the Smiths, as a rule, have been money- 
 making, the Smyths have shown themselves, on 
 the contrary, chivalrous and aristocratic. While 
 Smiths were Roundhead, Smyths were Cavalier ; 
 while Smiths were evangelical, Smyths were out- 
 side Ireland, and in a degree, Scotland high 
 Churchmen or Roman Catholics ; while Smiths 
 flourished as Whigs, Liberals, Radicals, Smyths 
 suffered for Tory and Jacobite principles. The late 
 Mr Smith of Tresco, in his " Stemmata Ferraria," 
 crows loudly over the rapid evolution of his yeoman 
 Smiths Cromwellians ; in contrast to the devolution 
 of the Carington Smyths Cavaliers. The phenome- 
 non indeed is obvious enough painfully so ; but the 
 cry vce metis I was scarcely generous. 
 
 A notion prevails that for reasons more or less 
 snobbish, the Smyths, Smythes, and Smijths, have 
 essayed by a variation of spelling to lend an 
 aristocratic flavour to a homely name. Nothing
 
 xvi INTRODUCTION 
 
 can be further from the truth. The original form, 
 as I have shown in these pages, was " Smyth," just 
 as the modern " cider " is a corruption of the ancient 
 "cyder." So far from the Smiths having Smythed 
 themselves, I can discover barely one notable 
 instance of the change from "i" to "y," but I can 
 trace numberless instances of Elizabethan Smyths 
 having become Victorian Smiths. Even the old 
 democratic Cropwell Boteler strain passed from the 
 latinised Faber to the Smyth of mediaeval days, and 
 thence to Smithe and Smith. The earliest Smithe I 
 have come across was in Devon, the truth being, that 
 up to the Reformation the letter "i," following Norman 
 French, was the equivalent of our " ee," and accord- 
 ing to the Devon dialect a Smith is a "Smeeth." 
 That will account for the "i." It was phonetic. 
 
 As for Smijth, which has always provoked a 
 smile, the rococo spelling is simply a variant of 
 Smyth. In writing Smyth, some ingenious clerk 
 must have taken upon himself to dot both the 
 strokes of the letter "y," thus changing it into 
 Smijth. But this is no modern conceit. True, 
 the name was originally Smyth, but we find Smijth 
 in the reign of Henry VIII., when the family were 
 of the highest social consideration, as is evidenced 
 by their alliances and opulence. 
 
 My former colleague in ancient days at beautiful 
 Magdalen, Mr Macray, remarks that "to write a 
 history of the Smiths is to count the grains of sand 
 on the seashore ! " Most true, for it cannot now be 
 said, that there is no Smith in the land; indeed, 
 inasmuch as in the course of my researches I 
 have stumbled across a prolific Smith with a progeny 
 of twenty-two, the marvel is that England itself has 
 not been transmuted into Southland. Half-a- century 
 ago, some pragmatical statistician calculated that the 
 Smith population of London exceeded the total
 
 INTRODUCTION xvii 
 
 population of Liverpool. Credat Judceus! Fortun- 
 ately, as a sort of check to this monotonous uni- 
 formity of nomenclature, the Smiths generally I 
 except the Smyths, whose ethos seems rather loftier 
 jump at any and every chance to merge their 
 patronymic in some other. Thus scions of the 
 ancient Cropwell Boteler line, who, according to the 
 late Mr Tresco Smith, ought to have been more than 
 proud of their plebeian patronymic, have cheerfully 
 disguised themselves under such grandisonant aliases 
 as Carrington, Pauncefote, Bromley, and Dorrien in 
 short, when a man is born into the world Smith, his 
 first thought would appear to be how to rectify that 
 error in generic nomenclature ! 
 
 Quod non est simulat, dissimulatque quod est. 
 
 Inasmuch as, thanks to the unrestricted licence 
 of this free country, a butler can assume the 
 name and arms of his master, a baronet, and 
 a Bug can blossom into a Norfolk Howard, there 
 exists no valid reason why John Smith should 
 not be metamorphosed into Aylmer De Valence 
 or Eustace De Montmorency. On the stage they 
 have already exchanged freely the homely Juggins 
 for De Vere, and the lists of lofty-named players 
 in The Era, if analysed, would probably dis- 
 close a fair contingent of Smiths. Against this 
 arrangement I am by no means entering a protest. 
 It is all a matter of business. What I do take 
 grave objection to is the snobbishness of too many 
 Smiths the pride which apes humility. 
 
 To explain. At the inception of this work I made 
 an appeal, through the provincial press, for an 
 account of every Smith family. The response was 
 only partly encouraging, and when I personally 
 canvassed several persons of the name holding 
 prominent positions, I was confronted by an im-
 
 xviii INTRODUCTION 
 
 passive unwillingness, which I could only refer to 
 one cause viz. that the parties were ashamed of 
 their J grandfather. Had I printed the true fact, 
 that the grandsire of the alderman and county 
 councillor, the candidate for municipal or parlia- 
 mentary honours, was a shoeblack, it would have 
 raised an unworthy blush to the grandson's cheek. 
 This type of egotist, if you could arrive at his real 
 meaning, would say : " Had my grandfather been a 
 banker I should have bragged about him ; as he hap- 
 pened to be a blacksmith or a butcher, I'm ashamed 
 of him, and prefer to ignore any such connection 
 with Me ! " The greatest of miscreants is he who 
 repudiates his benefactor, and the fellow who thinks 
 scorn of the honest blood in his veins proves him- 
 self an unworthy descendant of a worthy man. 
 Why? Is honest toil the work of the world- 
 shameful ? I pressed a gentleman, universally and 
 deservedly popular, and that not merely because of 
 his wealth, which was great, but rather because of 
 his sterling qualities, to reveal to me the mystery 
 of his origin. He point-blank refused. And yet 
 I have reason to believe that the only fault of 
 his grandfather consisted in keeping a shop. To 
 that antecedent the big and bettered man could 
 not bring himself to own. Surely, to think scorn 
 of one's own flesh and blood amounts to con- 
 temptible hypocrisy ! If only he could have grasped 
 the truth, many of us bitterly regret that our grand- 
 fathers, in lieu of hound-keeping, did not take to 
 shop-keeping, and instead of wasting, had earned 
 money. 
 
 On the other hand, I have been favoured with not 
 a few pedigrees of Smiths proud of their trading 
 and toiling forbears, and these family records to me 
 have proved replete with interest. Suffice it, that 
 but for the silly shamefacedness of Smiths lacking
 
 INTRODUCTION xix 
 
 in due respect for those to whom, under Providence, 
 they owe their existence, this type of pedigree could 
 have been trebled or quadrupled. With a name so 
 ubiquitous I admit the difficulty of tracing far back 
 any family not connected with the land ; but three or 
 four generations duly verified would have answered 
 my purpose ; and, after all, in the Heralds' Visita- 
 tions that seems to have been the normal limit of 
 descents. 
 
 In the eighteenth century a grand banquet was 
 held in the city. The cooks were Smiths ; the 
 waiters also : a Smith said grace ; the guests to a 
 man were Smiths, and the president was one Captain 
 Smith, Governor of Virginia. The feast was also 
 graced by a poet Smith, whose claims to immortality 
 rest solely on the ode composed for the occasion, 
 the publisher being one James Smith. As there is 
 no Smith Hall among the City Companies why 
 not? the Drapers' was borrowed for the occasion, 
 and a collection made for poor people of the name 
 possibly the descendants of Cavaliers and Legiti- 
 mists ; the grandsons of Roundheads and Whigs 
 for the most part rolling in riches. 
 
 This latter charitable incident proves suggestive. 
 The number of Smith benefactors to poor parishes 
 from Land's End to Berwick's bounds is legion. 
 Apart from such exemplars as the Episcopal co- 
 founder of B.N.C., the munificent " Dog " Smith of the 
 county of Surrey, and the donor of the Smith prize 
 at Cambridge, the hand of Smith has verified the 
 proverb, " there is that scatter eth and yet in- 
 creaseth " a paradox divine in respect of inspiration, 
 yet splendidly human. I have before me so many 
 examples of this helpful spirit, not merely in London 
 but in remote country towns and obscure villages, 
 as to constitute a colossal tribute to the good heart 
 of the Smiths reminding one indeed of the noble
 
 xx INTRODUCTION 
 
 aphorism contained in the funeral oration of Pericles, 
 which I might thus paraphrase : 
 
 "Of generous Smiths the whole land is a monument." 
 
 Perhaps the most eccentric and yet practical 
 bequest was that of Henry Smith in 1717 to St 
 Sepulchre's " to help poor maides for husbands ! " 
 Clearly when George was king a spouse must have 
 been a purchasable commodity, and at a moderate 
 price. 
 
 " The Smith a mighty man is he," sings Longfellow. 
 That was true in something more than a physical 
 sense in the principality of Wales, where the Smith 
 sat on the right hand of the king, and was the chief 
 subject in his realm, just as in Olympus Vulcan held 
 a prominent place, and the first brevet the shepherd 
 boy David received, was to be armourer to King 
 Saul. 
 
 As to the antiquity of the nomenclature, not being 
 a comparative philologist, I should hesitate to hazard 
 an opinion concerning its possible Grecian, or even 
 Egyptian * origin. According to one eminent author- 
 ity, the Smith-Marriott baronets enjoy a descent of 
 almost interminable duration, not only as being qua 
 Smiths Egyptian, but Greek also qud Marriott, in 
 having hailed from the Palus Mareotis. With that 
 I can scarcely concur, inasmuch as Smith appears 
 to be the noun substantive of the verb" to smite," 
 while Marriott, under the form Merriott, happens 
 to be a village in Somerset ; and as regards the 
 
 * Professor Mahaffy has made an extraordinary discovery in the Petrie 
 papyri. These contain a list of names, and he says : ' ' There is one which 
 appears regularly in the same form, and of which we can give no further 
 explanation. It is the name Smith unmistakably written. We have never 
 found anything like it before, and it is surely worth telling the many 
 distinguished bearers of the name, that there was a man known as Smith in 
 the twentieth year of the third Ptolemy, 227 B.C., and that he was occupied 
 in brewing beer or in selling it. Is there any other English name comparable 
 to this in antiquity ? "
 
 INTRODUCTION xxi 
 
 termination " ot " or " ott " we have it in the parallel 
 instances of Elliot, and Folliot. I have never yet 
 heard that the Elliots were originally citizens of 
 Elis. * 
 
 To revert to " Smith." In the days when the 
 Norsemen wielded the hammer of Thor, which none 
 but the strongest could handle, in the romantic 
 period when physical force meant moral superi- 
 ority, he was a cynosure. Presently, when mind 
 thanks to the influence of the Church in the first 
 instance had begun to assert itself over matter, 
 the artificer was awarded the second place. Once 
 in a way a genius, like Quentin Matsys, arose to deify 
 his craft, but he, like our own Grinling Gibbons in 
 another department of art, stood alone. The Smith 
 in the lapse of centuries became a mechanic pure 
 and simple, while a world prone to look at the 
 present rather than at the past has forgotten his 
 high estate in primaeval ages. Hence the satiric 
 couplet : 
 
 " Whence cometh Smith, be he knight or be he squire, 
 But from the smith that forgeth at the fire 1 " 
 
 Good old "Customer" Smith, goldsmith in the 
 Tudor days, and ancestor of the Viscounts Strangford 
 
 * In " Zanoni," Book II., chap. 6, Lytton puts words into the mouth of 
 a not very wise personage in ridicule of sham philology. Here is the passage : 
 "Mervale . . . observed that he now ventured to announce an erudite discovery 
 he himself had long since made viz. that the numerous family of Smiths 
 in England were undoubtedly the ancient priests of the Phrygian Apollo. 
 'For,' said he, 'was not Apollo's surname, in Phrygia, Smintheus? How 
 clear all the ensuing corruptions of the august name Sraintheus Smitheus 
 Smithe Smith ! And even now, I may remark, that the more ancient 
 branches of that illustrious family, unconsciously anxious to approximate at 
 least by a letter nearer to the true title, take a pious pleasure in writing 
 their names Smythe ! ' " 
 
 It is asserted that "The abbreviation <rju9 is probably a form of erjiCvflos, 
 the Cretan Apollo, de-nasalised ; thus we have airoXXuvos o-|ii0e'<os. We have 
 also o-|u0is, a common form of Hathor, a purely Egyptian form. " But surely 
 this is comparative philology run riot ?
 
 xxii INTRODUCTION 
 
 who spelt themselves Sniythe must have had 
 an inherited metallurgical scent, for not only did he 
 discover gold and silver in Cardiganshire, but also 
 brought his nuggets to the Mint and coined broad 
 pieces with them. He was a publican in the Biblical 
 sense, contracting for the dues of the realm and 
 amassing thereby enormous wealth.* 
 
 Later on, goldsmith was used as a synonym for 
 banker. Thus in wills of the reign of Queen Anne 
 we find such items as, "money lying at the gold- 
 smith's "-i.e. at interest. The Goldsmiths' Hall and 
 Company testifies to the power of that guild in the 
 Middle Ages. In its inception it would appear to 
 have been a confraternity of craftsmen skilled in the 
 mystery of working precious metals, but the transi- 
 tion to money -dealing followed imperceptibly, and 
 the goldsmith ceased to be a craftsman, and became a 
 financier. He retained, however, the old designation 
 long after the foundation of the Bank of England. 
 
 Although the blood of Smiths and Smyths flows 
 in the veins of a very considerable proportion of the 
 Peerage and Baronetage, the penny-a-lining sneer 
 at " the gentleman of the name of Smith " seems 
 perennial, while the gibe at the Smyths, for the 
 harmless " y " in their patronymic, serves in the stead 
 of wit e.g. I came across this ineptitude recently : 
 A mansion with ancient rookery was purchased by 
 a man supposed to be named Smith, and the rooks, 
 whose tenure of the Elizabethan elms was as ancient 
 as the mansion, met in conclave and decided that it 
 would be beneath their dignity to adorn the demesne 
 of any one with so plebeian a patronymic. They 
 were in fact about to migrate, when one of their tribe 
 arrived post haste to assure them that the name was 
 
 * The last contractor of customs was Sir John Bucknall of Oxhey, Herts 
 temp : Jac. II. whose son married Mary, daughter of Sir John Reade, Bart, of 
 Brocket Hall. The family merged in the Bucknall-Estcourts.
 
 INTRODUCTION xxiii 
 
 Smythe and not Smith. That of course altered the 
 case, and they unanimously decided to remain. 
 
 Whereupon I have to remark, that if, as I have 
 found, Messieurs les Smiths choose to regard their 
 name and parentage as a byword and a reproach, 
 they need scarcely feel surprised if the world takes 
 them at their own valuation. One may safely assert 
 that there are Smiths scattered broadcast over the 
 face of the world, who, if only they cared to take 
 the trouble, could prove themselves real not sham 
 Caringtons, as did the late Mr Carington Smith, 
 nursery gardener of Worcester ; and others also who 
 could go back to the mediaeval Smiths or Smyths 
 of Exeter, Cuerdesley, and Lincolnshire. It may be 
 urged by the Philistine that these people, now in 
 ignorance of their birthright, would be no better for 
 becoming enlightened. Query? The moral effect 
 of a verified pedigree consists in the sense of balance 
 it imparts. The Radical thereby becomes mollified 
 into a subdued optimism, and his son washes his 
 hands of an atavistic pessimism. The Sectarian, 
 while retaining his belief, finds an alkali to its acid. 
 In short, an honest pedigree makes good men better, 
 and in obliterating the false pride that apes humility, 
 raises its possessor to a due sense of his dignity as 
 a true citizen of no mean city, having a personal and 
 lasting interest in the sacred soil of mother England. 
 
 My contention is, that in a land of ancient civilisa- 
 tion, whose Parish Registers cover more or less 
 imperfectly three centuries and a half, the origin of 
 every reputable citizen need not be obscure. And 
 further, that our system of registration should be 
 enlarged and improved. Since 1836 the Marriage 
 Registers have been explicit. Not only are the 
 names of the principals recorded, but of their male 
 parents also, with their place of abode. The same 
 principle should be applied to the Registers of
 
 xxiv INTRODUCTION 
 
 Baptisms and Burials. The latter more particularly 
 can only be termed miserably jejune, giving nothing 
 more in respect of identification than name, abode, 
 and age. Again, the Parish Registers (1) of each 
 county, (2) of each borough should be transcribed 
 and codified. That would involve some small ex- 
 pense to Government, but the convenience to the 
 public would amply justify such outlay. Lastly, 
 fees for search might advantageously be abolished, 
 and in their stead the parochial clergy should be 
 allowed a fee for baptisms and for burials on the same 
 scale as the existing marriage fees. If this reform, 
 or rather reorganisation, could be accomplished, the 
 task of pedigree-tracing, even in the instance of so 
 myriad -headed a race as that of Smith, would be in- 
 definitely facilitated. " Efferor studio patres vestros 
 videndi ! " exclaims Cicero in the " De Senectute," 
 and the thought of tracing the ancestors of a vagrom 
 Smith would afford a pleasurable anticipation to the 
 researchful genealogist. As things are, even the 
 learned Herald too often encounters an impasse, 
 while the illusive mndex nodi reposes perdu in the 
 registers of the next parish. Had a perfect system of 
 registration prevailed, it would have been possible to 
 prove that every other Englishman one meets has a 
 strain of Smith blood in his veins. 
 
 I will conclude by quoting the lines of a con- 
 tributor, who pleads a cosmopolitan origin for the 
 family, whereof he is evidently a reputable scion : 
 
 a "Of all the ancient families that dwell upon the earth, 
 The most antique, if not unique, 
 Is that which gives us birth. 
 In every clime from dawn of time 
 Have dwelt our ancestors ; 
 For on Egyptian obelisk, 
 And on the Grecian monolyth, 
 You '11 find enrolled in letters bold 
 The honoured name of Smith."
 
 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 CHAPTER I 
 
 MEDIAEVAL SMITHS 
 
 THE earliest record we have of the gentlemen of 
 England as distinguished from the Norman nobility, 
 is furnished by the reports the Commissioners 
 appointed by Henry the Sixth returned in 1433. 
 Unfortunately this catalogue is alike imperfect, in- 
 congruous, and biassed. The names of those land- 
 owners who favoured the Yorkist cause, of steady 
 purpose were omitted. From twelve counties no 
 return was made. In some others the list of gentry 
 is so swollen as to suggest the inclusion of the 
 yeoman class, while in others it has been so restricted 
 as to demonstrate either the incompetence or the 
 partiality of the Commissioners. This is notable 
 especially in the tripartite shire of York, whose 
 return is less than that of Cambridge albeit all 
 three Ridings were professedly included. The lists 
 therefore represent probably not more than one-half 
 of the landowning gentry of England, together with 
 some, if not many, names that would have been 
 designated by the Heralds a century later ignobiles. 
 As an evidence of the slatternly way wherein the 
 Commissioners performed their duties, it may be 
 mentioned that many families, which both before and 
 shortly after 1433 supplied sheriffs and knights of 
 the shire, are omitted presumably because they 
 were identified with the Yorkist cause, the space 
 which their names would have filled being supplied 
 by ecclesiastics and yeomen. 
 A
 
 2 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 At the same time the returns, such as they are, 
 demonstrate the social status of most families 
 actually named. In a few instances old Fuller has 
 assigned a local habitation, and with that their 
 armorial bearings. As regards the latter, he is too 
 often at fault, and the lists of 1433 may be profit- 
 ably read side by side with those of sheriffs of the 
 various counties, and with the Heralds' Visitations. 
 Taking, however, as our starting-point the Commis- 
 sioners' return of 1433, we find the name Smith, or 
 Smyth, occupying a place among gentry. Even at 
 that remote date it was not wholly bourgeois, but 
 rooted in the land. It is of course Saxon, and its 
 bearers, with numerous others of Saxon origin, had 
 slowly but surely broken through the monopoly of 
 the soil enjoyed from the Conquest by the Norman 
 barons. The name connoted craftsmanship. In its 
 inception it must have been peculiar to the burgher ; 
 on the other hand, if you analyse the history of 
 many among the noblest and most ancient of English 
 families, they will be found to have emerged by 
 force of character or special talents from the ranks 
 of burghers i.e. from precisely the same stratum 
 whence emanated such of the great gens Smith 
 as have dignified the common name. 
 
 In the 1433 lists we find the name Smith absent 
 from the counties of Berks, Beds, and Bucks. In 
 the county of Cambridge, where the list is unusually 
 long, the names occur of 
 
 John Smith of Hyston. 
 John Smith of Gamlingay. 
 John Smith, Parson of Brynkle. 
 
 In Cheshire, Cornwall, and Cumberland, there 
 were no returns ; and there may have been Smiths 
 freeholders of those shires ; but in Derby we meet 
 with
 
 MEDIAEVAL SMITHS 
 
 Robert Carington, (later Smyth). 
 John Smith, ferrour. 
 John Smith, baker. 
 
 These were probably members of the guilds of 
 farriers and bakers respectively, and not actually 
 engaged in trade trade being obviously extraneous 
 to the scope of the Commission. 
 
 In Devon and Dorset the name is absent, as also 
 in Durham, Essex, Gloucester, Hants, Herts, where 
 there was no return but in Hereford the names 
 occur of 
 
 Thomas Smith of Weobley. 
 
 William Smith of Tyberton. 
 
 John Smith (query, of Credenhill ? ) 
 
 Huntingdon returned no Smith, but in Kent was 
 Richard Smith de Schorne. 
 
 Lancashire was one of the twelve counties making 
 no return, otherwise we might have anticipated a 
 contingent of Smiths favouring the Red Rose. 
 Leicester appears to have been Yorkist; but in 
 Lincoln we find, 
 
 John Smith of Elkington. 
 
 Middlesex returned no Smith albeit a Smith 
 served as sheriff in the ensuing reign. In Mon- 
 mouthshire there was no return, as also in Northants, 
 while Norfolk and Notts produced none of the 
 name, and Northumberland only a John Carington. 
 Oxon, however, was rich in Smiths e.g. 
 
 William Smith of Chippingnorton. 
 John Smith de Mellington. 
 Thomas Smith de Eadem. 
 John Smith. 
 
 The list of the county of Oxford is not only over- 
 loaded with names, but also is remarkable for some 
 conspicuous omissions.
 
 4 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 Rutland, Salop, Somerset, Staffordshire, Suffolk, 
 Surrey, Sussex, Warwickshire, Westmoreland, Wilts, 
 Worcester, and York, all are destitute of Smiths ; 
 and of those cited in other Shires, if the Caringtons 
 be excepted, who were the progenitors of Smyths, 
 which Smyths do not seem to have had a true 
 Smyth origin, the majority may fairly be relegated 
 to the squireen or yeoman class. I venture to 
 assign more particularly the status of armiger or 
 squire to 
 
 John Smith of Hyston, Camb. 
 
 William Smith of Tyberton, Herefordshire. 
 
 John Smith, if of Credenhill, Herefordshire. 
 
 Richard Smith of Schorne, Kent. 
 
 John Smith of Elkington, Lincolnshire ; 
 
 and to John and Thomas Smith of Mellington, Oxon. 
 To which I might add Simon Smith, whose name is 
 omitted, but who was sheriff for London and Middle- 
 sex, 9 Edward IV. 
 
 The early records of sheriffs commence circa the 
 Conquest, and terminate with the reign of Charles I. 
 These lists afford a very accurate estimate of the 
 social position held by each individual sheriff, the 
 shrievalty being confined to owners of acreage, and 
 the heavy expenses wherewith the office was saddled 
 restricting its tenure to men of opulence. Here we 
 first meet with gentlemen bearing the name of Smith 
 or Smyth of definite and assured status, many being 
 knights, as well as men of estate. The returns 
 withal are complete. 
 
 In the counties of Berks, Beds, Bucks, and 
 Cambs, there is no Smith sheriff recorded up to 
 the last year of Charles I. In Cheshire, however, 
 the most aristocratic of all shires, there served 
 
 Laurence Smith, 9 Queen Elizabeth. 
 Sir Thomas Smith, 42 Queen Elizabeth.
 
 MEDIAEVAL SMITHS 5 
 
 In Cornwall, Cumberland, and Derby the name is 
 absent. In Devon we have 
 
 Sir George Smith, 11 James I. 
 Dorset is blank, but Essex proves prolific e.g. 
 
 John Smith (Smijth), 30 Henry VIII. (and of 
 
 Herts). 
 
 Henry Smith, 3 Elizabeth. 
 William Smith, 13 James I. 
 Sir William Smith, 17 James I. 
 Henry Smith, 8 Charles I. 
 Kobert Smith, 17 Charles I. 
 
 In Gloucestershire we find 
 
 Thomas Smith, 13 and 25 Elizabeth (of Nibley). 
 
 Hants gives no sheriff of the name, neither do 
 Hereford and Hunts. In Kent, however, we have 
 
 John Smith of Ostenhanger, 42 Elizabeth. 
 Lancashire is blank. Leicestershire gives 
 Francis Smith of Ashby, 8 Elizabeth. 
 Eoger Smith of Withcock, 42 Elizabeth. 
 
 Lincolnshire has no sheriff Smith, but among the 
 sheriffs of London and Middlessex are 
 
 Simon Smith, 9 Edward IV. 
 Humfrey Smith, 5 Charles I. 
 
 Monmouth, Norfolk, Northants, and Notts are 
 blank. In Northumberland John Carrington appears 
 as M.P. for the county. 
 
 Oxfordshire yields no sheriff, but the same Roger 
 Smith who was sheriff of Leicestershire, served also 
 as sheriff for Rutland, 24 and 34 Elizabeth. Salop 
 is blank. Somerset gives 
 
 Hugo Smith, 9 James I. 
 In Staffordshire we find an early entry in 
 
 William Smith, 20, 21 Henry VII., and again in 
 14 Henry VIII.
 
 6 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 Suffolk is blank. Surrey gives 
 
 Thomas Smith, 16 Charles I. 
 
 Sussex, Warwickshire, Westmoreland, Worcester, 
 Wilts, and Yorkshire are all blank. 
 
 Among the valuable publications of the Royal 
 Historical Society, Leadam's "Domesday of In- 
 closures, 1517-18," affords some evidence as to the 
 tenures of certain Smyths the name being uniformly 
 given with a "y." This work presents verbatim the 
 Chancery returns for Berks, Beds, Bucks, Cheshire, 
 Essex, Leicester, Lincoln, Northants, Oxon, and 
 Warwick, with Dugdale's Notes on the Inquisition 
 for Warwickshire. A large body of Commissioners 
 was appointed, with sub-committees for each shire, 
 the main object being apparently to check the 
 conversion of arable land into pasture, as well as 
 the eviction of tenants and destruction of cottages 
 in order to create deer parks, the offenders 
 being cited by name with their tenures. Among 
 those appointed Edward Smyth served as Com- 
 missioner for Cheshire, and Richard Smyth of 
 Nuneaton for Warwickshire, while a Robert Smyth 
 was sworn as juror before the Commissioners for 
 Lincolnshire. 
 
 In these returns we find that Henry Smyth 
 enclosed one hundred and twenty acres of land in 
 Fletchamstead, then a hamlet of Stoneleigh, Warwick- 
 shire. According to Dugdale, this Henry was son 
 of John Smyth of Coventry, and made a park with 
 a pool therein. Dugdale quotes from a later Inquisi- 
 tion of 1548. The son of Henry was Sir Walter 
 Smyth, who was murdered by his wife in 1554. 
 [Vide Dugdale's "Warwick," pp. 40, 41.] This same 
 Henry Smyth held 40 acres in Stretton-super-Strete, 
 value annually 35, but allowed the cottages to 
 become ruinated, and enclosed the land. Not only
 
 MEDLEVAL SMITHS 7 
 
 was there a large eviction of poor hinds in this shire 
 by the Smyths, resulting in several deaths, but the 
 churches became also ruins, and animals trampled 
 on the graves. [ Vide preamble of an Act, 7 Henry 
 VIII., for " avoidyng pullyng doune of Tounes, wher'- 
 by husbandry is decay'd, Churches destrued, and the 
 service of God withdrawn."] Henry Smyth further 
 "imparcavit " one hundred and thirty acres in 
 Shyrford, and altogether one half of Fletchamstead 
 parish. 
 
 We find, moreover, that John Smyth was tenant of 
 John Morys at Compton, Berks, and that Richard 
 Smyth owned 30 acres in Ludgershall, Bucks, while 
 a Thomas Smyth held lands in Crookham, Berks, 
 under the Abbot of Eeading. 
 
 In the same volume mention is made of William 
 Smyth, Rector of Gawcott, Bucks, Prebendary of 
 Sutton- cum -Buckingham, Archdeacon of Lincoln, 
 and nephew, as well as exor, of Bishop William 
 Smyth, co-founder of B.N.C. A William Smyth 
 also was Chaplain of the Chantry of Chippingnorton, 
 Oxon, in 1517 possibly the same William as the 
 above pluralist. 
 
 Mention is further made of Robert Smyth of 
 Lower Toynton, Lincolnshire, and of a William 
 Smyth of Alseley, or Allesley, Warwickshire, a tenant 
 of Lord Abergavenny. 
 
 The above represent the total of the name 
 mentioned in the "Domesday of Inclosures." It 
 may be safely assumed that the two selected Com- 
 missioners were either distinguished lawyers, or else 
 prominent landowners in their respective shires 
 probably the latter. The Warwickshire Smyths 
 were evidently burgesses of Coventry, whose park 
 at Stoneleigh, with the aforesaid pool, i.e. lake, is 
 now the property of Lord Leigh. The first Leigh 
 of Stoneleigh appears to have been Sir Thomas, who
 
 8 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 was Lord Mayor when The Red Queen Mary died. 
 Inasmuch as his wife was a Warwickshire lady, it 
 may be presumed that he held Stoneleigh in her 
 right. The name Stoneleigh has apparently no con- 
 nection with that of the Leigh family, who were 
 seated originally at High Leigh, or Legh, in Cheshire.
 
 CHAPTER II 
 
 THE HERALDS' VISITATIONS 
 
 THE object in view which the Tudors had in scrutin- 
 ising the ancestry of such among the gentry as 
 were assigned the status " nobilis," appears to have 
 been mercenary. So far as the science of genealogy 
 is concerned, these official visitations have proved 
 most helpful, while among those families which were 
 stigmatised by the heralds as ignobiles, not a few 
 may have merited the contrary designation, and 
 probably a little palm oil, judiciously administered, 
 would have neutralised the obnoxious negative 
 indeed, among those entered as nobiles, some appear 
 to have acquired the title very late in their pedigree. 
 These Visitations, covering what may be termed the 
 Reformation period, are mainly reliable, and at all 
 events inform us concerning the leading gentry or 
 minor nobility of the shires. Incidentally they throw 
 a strong light on certain among the more ancient and 
 honourable of those houses which bore the name of 
 Smyth or Smith. For the sake of perspicuity, we will 
 deal with each county seriatim, but only where the 
 returns appear to be serviceable for the end we have 
 in view. The list does not pretend to absolute com- 
 pleteness. 
 
 VISITATION OF BERKS, 1634 
 SMYTH OF ABINGDON 
 
 Richard Smyth of Abingdon, Berks = Barbara, dan. ... Jawtherell of 
 Derbyshire, and by her had : 
 
 1. Richard of Abingdon = Mary, dau. of Pawle Dayrell of Livingstone 
 Dayrell. Issue: (a) Richard, living in 1634 = Elizabeth, dau. of Geo. Deane 
 of Stepney, and had, John, Thomas, Martha, Anne ; (b) Thomas ; (c) Edward ; 
 (d) Anthony; (e) Michael; (/) Walter = Anne, dau. of Dr Thos. Edwards, 
 Chancellor of the Diocese of London.
 
 10 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 2. Thomas. 
 
 3. Edward, barrister of the Middle Temple. 
 
 This Richard of Abingdon served as Usher to Queen Elizabeth. His grand- 
 son, Richard, was a book collector, and is mentioned in the "Diet, of Nat. 
 Biography." 
 
 [See also SMYTH OF BUSCOT, Visitation 1664.] 
 
 VISITATION OF BEDS, 1634 
 SMYTH OF WOBUKN 
 
 ARMS : Per pale or and azure a chevron between four lions passant guardant 
 
 counterchanged. 
 CREST: A leopard's head arg. pellettee, muratty gorged sa., lined gu., and 
 
 ringed of the second. 
 
 William of Woburn or Woborne, 3 Queen Eliz. 
 George Smyth of Biggleswade. 
 
 Thomas of Biggleswade = Mary, dau. of Thos. Parratt. 
 
 ISSUE : 
 
 1. Margaret = Lawrance Blakesley. 
 
 2. Mary (1) = Robert Eakyns. 
 
 3. Anne = George Mordaunt. 
 
 4. Judith = Thomas Newsam. 
 
 5. Mary (2) = Oliver Fish. 
 
 6. George of Henslow, living in 1634 = Mary, dau. of Richard Balthrop. 
 Issue: William, Thomas, Barbara. 
 
 7. Thomas. 
 
 VISITATION OF CHESHIRE, 1580 
 SMITH OF HOUGH 
 
 ARMS : Azure, two bars wavy ermine, on a chief or a demilion rampant 
 
 issuant sable. 
 CREST : An ostrich proper holding in the beak a horseshoe. 
 
 Sir Thomas, Mayor of Chester = Katherine, dau. of Sir Andrew Brereton 
 
 | of Brereton. 
 
 Agnes, dau. of Sir Thos. =Sir Lawrence = Jane, dau. of Sir Peter Warburton, 
 
 Foulshurst of Crewe. 
 
 widow of Sir William Brereton. 
 
 Others. Sir Thomas of Hough, = Anne, dau. of Sir Wm. Brereton. 
 
 1598. 
 
 Lawrence = Anne, dau. of Sir Randoll Manwaring Jane = Sir Randoll 
 
 of Peever. Manwaring. 
 
 Stephen. Sir Thomas = Anne, dau. of Sir Hugh Smith of Somerset. 
 
 4 Sons.
 
 SMITH OF OLDHAUGH 
 
 ARMS : Quarterly 1 and 4, per pale or and gules, 3 fleurs-de-lis counterchanged 
 2 and 3 az. a fret or. 
 
 CREST : A fleur-de-lis per pale or and gules. 
 
 John of Oldhaugh, = . . . Oldhaugh. 
 descended from ' 
 a younger son 
 of Sir Thomas 
 of Cuerdley. 
 
 John = ... Page of Alpram. 
 
 John = Elizabeth, base dau. of Sir Andrew 
 Brereton, ob. 1549. 
 
 With others. Randoll Smith of Old- = Jane, dau. of Ralph Bostocke of 
 
 haugh, ob. 1589. 
 
 Norcroft, ob. 1562. 
 
 Alice, dau. of Otwell=Rafe of Oldhaugh = Margery, dau. of W. Sutton, 
 
 Shawcross. 
 
 Randoll = Amy, dau. of Leonard Shalcross. 
 
 and widow of W. Minshull. 
 
 William Smith, Rouge Dragon = Veronica, dau. of Frank Others. 
 
 Alstensteig of Nurem- 
 berg. 
 
 VISITATION OF CORNWALL, 1620 
 SMYTH OF TEEGONAKE ST GEEMAYNS 
 
 Robert Smyth =Joane, dau. of Robert Killigrew. 
 Wilmot, dau. of Roger = Thomas = Mary, dau. of Sir ... Lenthall of 
 
 Tremayne. 
 
 Latchford, Oxon. 
 
 John Smyth of Robert Smyth of Trewynt, in 
 
 Tregonnock. Blysland. 
 
 ARMS : .B. a saltire arg. between 4 martlets or. 
 
 In this Visitation we further find that Ellinor, daughter of Bernard Smith 
 of Totness, and widow of Sir John Fulford=John Wrey of N. Russel. And 
 that William Smith of Newton was disclaimed as ignobilis.
 
 12 
 
 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 VISITATION OF DEVON, 1620 
 SMYTH OF DARTMOUTH 
 
 ARMS. Barry wavy of six arg. and az. on a chief gu. three pairs of barnacles. 
 
 John Smyth of D. =the widow of John Anthonie 
 | of Exeter. 
 
 John, living in 1620 = Elizabeth, dau. of Rich. Dyer of Barnstaple. 
 Issue. 
 
 SMYTH OF EXETER (LATER SMITH) 
 
 John Smyth of Borage = Alice Muttleberrie. 
 Joane, dau. of James Walker = Sir George = Grace, dau. of Wm. Viell, by 
 
 (ob. 1619). 
 
 Jane, dau. of Arundell of 
 Trevize. 
 
 Grace = Bevill, son of 
 Sir Barnard 
 Grenvill. 
 
 Elizabeth = Sir Thos. Monke 
 of Powderidge. 
 
 Sir Nicholas = Dorothea, dau. Jane = Richard 
 of Sir Ralph Henning 
 
 Horsey of of Dorset. 
 
 Dorset. 
 
 5 sons, 2 dau. 
 
 Sir Nicholas Smyth is described as of Larkbeare. [Vide Chapter IV., 
 " The West Country Smiths."] 
 
 VISITATION OF DORSET, 1623 
 
 Angell Smith of Stratton had a daughter who married . . . Meller of Came. 
 Jane, dau. of Sir George Smith of Motford, Devon = Richard Hemminge of 
 Poxwell. [ Vide supra, Visitation of Devon. ] 
 
 VISITATION OF DURHAM, 1615 
 SMITH OF DURHAM 
 
 ARMS: Arg. on a bend az., 3 lozenges erminois between 2 unicorns' heads 
 
 erased az. , armed and maned or. 
 CREST: A dexter hand embowed erminois cuffed arg., grasping a broken 
 
 sword ppr. , hilt or. 
 
 Thomas S. = Elizabeth, dau. of ... Layton of West Layton. 
 
 John S. = Jane, dau. of ... Layton of Sproxton, 
 I Lord of the Manor of West Layton. 
 
 Thomas S. = 
 
 = Margaret, eldest John, parson of William, parson 
 dau. of Simon Normanby, co. of Hargrave, co. 
 Lightfoot of York. Northumberland. 
 West Layton. 
 
 Symon. John, William S. of Duresme, = 
 s.p. Councellor of Law, 
 1615. 
 
 = Mary, dau. of Lyonell 
 Heron of Chipchase, 
 co. Northumberland. 
 
 Henry, son and heir, set. 6, 1615. 
 
 Margaret.
 
 THE HERALDS' VISITATIONS 
 
 13 
 
 VISITATION OF ESSEX, 1612 
 CARINGTON ah SMITH 
 
 ARMS : Arg. a cross gules between 4 peacocks az. 
 CREST: A peacock's head erased gules, ducally gorged or. 
 
 Sir. Wm. C., Knight = Anne, dau. of Edmond Farwell. 
 
 Arms Arg. on a 
 
 bend sable 3 faw- 
 
 chens in salter arg. 
 
 hilted or. Poynts 
 
 downward. 
 
 Sir Edward = Catherin, heir 
 to Sir Thos. 
 Herriett. 
 (Issue). 
 
 Sir William = Catherin, syster to 
 Wm. Mountacute, 
 Erie of Salesbery. 
 
 Sir Thos., son and heir, = Margaret, dau. of Sr. Robert Roose. 
 obt. 4Richd. II., 1378. 
 
 Edmond = Joan, dr. of Sir 
 ob. 1 J. Ferrers. 
 1397. 
 
 Isabel = Thomas 
 Novell. 
 
 1 
 John Carington, = 
 fled abroad and 
 called himself 
 Smith. Arms 
 Arg. a crosse 
 gules enter 4 
 peacockes azure. 
 Obt. 1446. 
 
 = Elizabeth, heiress of 
 Robert Lainham and of 
 Alice, heiress of John 
 Hende, Lord Mayor, 1392. 
 
 ... Hamond= Thomas Smith of Rivenhall=Isabell, heiress of William Foster, 
 (Issue). of Littell Badow. 
 
 Sir Clement = Dorathie, dau. of Edward 
 Seymer, D. of Somersett. 
 
 John, s.p. 
 
 VISITATION OF ESSEX, 1664 
 SMITH OF WEST HAM 
 
 Robert Smith = . . . 
 
 I 
 
 Sir Robert = Judith Walmsley. 
 
 Others. 
 
 James = Mary, dau. of Sir 
 Wm. Peake. 
 
 Robert = Jane Trafford. 
 
 Robert, 
 (heir) 
 
 I I I 
 
 John. James. Jane. 
 
 I 
 Anthony. 
 
 Hester. 
 Anne. 
 Judith. 
 Rebecca.
 
 14 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 VISITATION OF ESSEX, 1664 
 SMITH OF BLACKMOEE 
 
 ABMS: Arg. a cross (sic) between 4 peacocks close az. 
 CREST : A peacock's head erased ppr. , ducally gorged or. 
 
 Thomas Smith = Margaret, dau. of Thos. Turner 
 of Cressing Hall. 
 
 Arthur = Anne Milward. 
 
 Major Stephen, living in 1664= Joan, dau. of Alderman Bennet. 
 Arthur, set. 22, 1664. Others. 
 
 SMITH OF BROXTED 
 
 Thomas Smith of Sudbury. 
 
 Thomas of Broxted = Elen, dau. of Robt. Poole of Belsham. 
 I 
 
 Thomas, living in 1664=Katherine, dau. of Wm. Howe of Farnham. 
 
 SMITH OF HARWICH 
 
 William Smith of Walton = Anne Culfe. 
 
 Daniel = Bridget Mannock. 
 
 Daniel = Elizabeth, dau. of Thos. Pitt of Trimley. 
 
 Daniel, living in 1664. Others. 
 
 VISITATION OF ESSEX, 1634 
 NEVILE 
 
 ABMS : Quarterly 1 and 4, gules a saltire ermine ; 2 and 3, Smith as under 
 Carington. V. 1612. 
 
 CREST : A bull's head ermine. 
 
 Hugh Smyth of Witham, Essex. 
 
 Sir John Smyth of Cressing Temple = Anne, d. of Edwd. Wood of London. 
 Edmond. Thomas = Mary, heiress of Sir Thos. Nevile of Holte. 
 
 Sir Thomas Nevile, = Jane, d. of Toby Hough ton Others, 
 alias Smyth. of Houghton Tower. 
 
 (Issue.)
 
 THE HERALDS' VISITATIONS 
 
 15 
 
 Further information is supplied by 
 BERRY'S ESSEX PEDIGREES (Harl. Soc. Publications) 
 
 SMYTH, SMIJTH (No. 1) 
 
 ARMS : Sable, a fess dancettee arg. ; billetee of the field, between three lioncels 
 rampant gardant of the second, each supporting an altar or, flaming proper. 
 
 CREST : A Salamander regardant in flames proper, ducally gorged. 
 This crest was adopted by Sir Thomas Smijth, Sec. of State to Queen 
 
 Mary (1) in allusion to his escape from fire. The earlier crest was an eagle 
 
 holding a burning pen. 
 
 Edward III. 
 
 I 
 The Black Prince = 
 
 Sir Roger De Clarendon. 
 
 From whom 
 
 Agnes Charnock=John Smijth, Sheriff of Essex = 2nd wife, s.p. 
 and Herts, 30 Hen. VIII. 
 
 Sir Thomas, Secretary of State to Q. Eliza- George = . . . 
 beth, Arab, to France, d. s.p. 1577. ob. 1577. I 
 
 Others. 
 
 Sir William (1550-1626)=: Bridget, dau. of Thomas Fleet- 
 wood of The Vache, Bucks. 
 
 Others. 
 
 Helligaurth, = Sir William = Anne, Others. 
 dau. of Ed- 
 ward Con- 
 way, Baron 
 of Ragley, 
 Sec. to 
 James I. and 
 Charles I. 
 
 Sir Edward = Jane Vandeput. 
 
 Sir Thomas, created = Johanna, 
 dau. of 
 SirE. 
 Altham, 
 Knt. 
 
 -1631). 
 
 dau. of 
 
 Bart. 1661. He m., 
 
 1 
 
 Croft of 
 
 2ndly, Beatrice, 
 
 ward, 
 
 Hertford. 
 
 dau. of Viscount 
 
 1 s.p. 
 
 (Query, 
 
 Valentia, and 
 
 
 Here- 
 
 widow of Sir John 
 
 
 ford ?) 
 
 Lloyd, d. s.p. 1668. 
 
 Anne, dau. of Right Hon. Sir Charles = Sir Edward, = Elizabeth Wood. 
 Hedges, Secretary of State to King 3rd Bart. 
 William and Queen Anne. (1686-1744). 
 
 Sir Edward, 
 4th Bart. 
 ( 1710-60), s. p. 
 
 Sir Charles, = Elizabeth 
 5th Bart. Burgess, 
 (1712-73). d. 1776. 
 
 Rev. Sir William = Abigail Wood of 
 
 (1720-77). 
 
 Salop, d. 1787. 
 
 Sir William (1746-1823) = Anne Windham (Bowyer). 
 
 Sir Thomas 
 (1781-1823). 
 
 Sir John Rev. Sir Edward = Letitia C. , dau. of J. Weyland 
 
 (d. 1838). 
 
 of Woodeaton, Oxon. 
 
 William, b. 1814 = Marianne F., dau. of Sir 
 H. Meux, Bart. 
 
 Alfred John Edward, 
 b. 1825.
 
 16 
 
 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 BERRY'S ESSEX PEDIGREES 
 (Harl. Soc. Publications) 
 
 SMYTH (No. 2) 
 
 ARMS : Azure two bars wavy ermine on a chief or a demilion rampant 
 
 issuant sable. 
 CKEST: An ostrich head quarterly arg. and sa. between two wings gu. t in the 
 
 beak a horseshoe or. 
 MOTTO : Sustine et abstine. 
 
 Judith, niece of Chief- = Robert Smyth of Upton, = Rebecca, dau. of Sir W. 
 
 Justice Walmesly. 
 
 created Bart. 1665. 
 
 Romney. 
 2 daughters. 
 
 Sir Robert = Jane Trafford. 
 
 James, ancestor of the 
 Smyths of Isfield. 
 
 Others. 
 
 Sir Robert, M.P., = Anne, dau. of H. Whitehead 
 3rd Bart. of Tytherley. 
 
 Conway, dau. of Dr = Trafford = Anne, niece of Rev. Robert, V. of = Dorothy 
 
 Hackett, Bishop d. 1732. 
 of Down. 
 
 SirJ.What- 
 ton, Knt. 
 
 Woolavington. 
 
 Sir Trafford, died, s.p. 
 1765. 
 
 Lloyd. 
 
 Sir Robert, 5th Bart. ,= Charlotte S. Blake, 
 M.P., d. 1802. d. 1823. 
 
 Sir George H., 6th Bart., = Eva, dau. of Geo. Elmore, Esq. of 
 M.A., M.P., b. 1784. Panton, Hants.
 
 THE HERALDS VISITATIONS 
 
 17 
 
 BERKY'S ESSEX PEDIGREES (Haii. Soc. Publications) 
 SMITH (No. 1) 
 
 ARMS : Ermine, a saltire az. charged with an escalop or, in base a dolphin 
 naiant, embowed of the second. 
 
 CREST : Between a pen in bend or, feathered argent, surmounted by a sword 
 proper, pomel and hilt gold, an escutcheon azure, charged with an 
 escalop of the first, pendent by a ribbon gules. 
 
 MOTTO : Morte et ingenio. 
 
 James of Camno, N.B. 
 
 I 
 
 John London merchant, = Mary, dau. of Griffen Ransom 
 
 d. July 1827. 
 
 of Lambeth. 
 
 Sir Drummond, created a Bart. Thomas of Elizabeth = Andrew 
 11 June 1804 (with remainder Fonthill, Jamaica. Telfe of 
 
 to Charles Smith of Sutton in Penhill. 
 
 right of his niece, Augusta). 
 = (1) Mary, eldest dau. of Sir 
 Ellis Cunliffe, Bart. ; (2) Eliza- 
 beth, dau. of William, Vis- 
 count Galway, and widow of 
 Sir Francis Sykes. Died, 
 s. p., Jan. 22, 1816. 
 
 Joshua of Stoke Park, = Sarah, dau. of Sir John of Havering = Margaret, only 
 
 Wilts, M.P. 
 
 Gilbert, Esq. 
 
 assumed the name 
 and arms of Burges, 
 createdaBart. 1763; 
 ob. 1803, s.p. 
 
 dau. of Ynyr 
 Burges, Esq. 
 
 I III 
 
 Maria = Charles, Mar- Elizabeth = William Emma = Aug. Augusta = Charles 
 
 quess of Northamp- Chute of the Vine, 
 ton. 
 
 7, 1800, Ran- 
 dall, Lord 
 Dunsany, 
 and died a 
 widow, June 
 1828. 
 
 Smith 
 ofSut- 
 tons. 
 
 Spencer Smith, Esq. Belinda, dau. of Sir Charles = Mary, 2nd dau. of Chas 
 
 Colebrooke, 
 Esq., Oct. 1823. 
 
 Gosling of Rockamp- 
 ton; m. July 20, 1826. 
 
 Sir Charles Cunliffe Smith, Bart, 
 of Tring Park, Herts, b. Sept. 
 15, 1827.
 
 18 
 
 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 * BERRY'S ESSEX PEDIGREES 
 (Harl. Soc. Publications) 
 
 SMITH (No. 2) 
 
 Charles of Barking (of Dorset) = Co-heiress of Captn. Marriner. 
 
 Anne Rice = Charles of Stratford = Judith, dau. of Isaac Lefevre of Old 
 (1713-77). Ford, m. 1748. 
 
 Judith, unm., 
 d. 1832. 
 
 Susanna Deval, = Charles of Buttons, = Augusta, 3rd dau. of 
 
 s.p. 
 
 M.P. (1757-1814). 
 
 Joshua Smith of Erl- 
 stoke, Wilts, M.P. 
 
 Augusta = Rev. H. W. Wilder, Emma = Rev. J. E. Frances = Rev. R. Sey- 
 Purley Hall, d. Aug. Austen mour, son of Admiral 
 
 2, 1836. Leigh of Sir Michael Seymour, 
 
 Scarletts, Bart., K.C.B., Rector 
 Berks. of Kinwarton. 
 
 Sarah Eliza = Denis Le Marchant Charlotte = Arthur Currie. Maria Ixmisa. 
 of Chobham. Judith. 
 
 ria Louie 
 
 Sir Charles Joshua of = 
 Buttons, heir to his 
 maternal uncle, Sir 
 Drummond. He d. 
 Jan. 14", 183 . 
 = (1) Belinda Cole- 
 brooke, who died s.p. 
 1825. 
 
 - (2) Mary, dau. of Spencer = 
 W. Gosling of 
 Hassobury. 
 
 = Frances A., Drummond, 
 dau. of Ad- B.C.L., 
 miral Sir (1812-32). 
 M. Seymour, 
 Bart. 
 
 1 
 
 Sir Charles Cunliffe of 
 Suttons, b. 1827. 
 
 3 daus. Spencer. Drummond. A dau. 
 
 * Since the MS. of this volume was completed, exception has been taken by 
 the Herald's College to Berry as an authority. The above pedigrees seem, 
 however, to be free from error.
 
 THE HERALDS' VISITATIONS 
 
 19 
 
 (HAUL. MSS.) 
 
 VISITATION OF GLOUCESTEKSHIEE, 1624 
 SMYTH 
 
 AKMS : Sa. a fesse betioeen 3 saltires or sometimes charged with 3 fleurs-de- 
 lis gu. 
 
 CREST : 2 serpents noived and intertwined az. 
 MOTTO : Chasem sa porte. 
 
 Thomas Smyth = Catherine, dau. of Sir Geo. Throckmorton, 
 of Campden. I widow of Robert Winter. 
 
 Richard. =Mariam, dau. of 
 Hugh Elston. 
 
 Catherine = Samwell Tracie. 
 
 Samwell. 
 
 Catherine. 
 
 Silvanus. Mary. Paule, Sir Thomas, Anne = ... Ash- Anthony = Joane, dau. 
 
 thonv = 
 
 s.p. Knt., s.p. 
 
 field. 
 
 of Sir Roger 
 Martin, 
 Lord Mayor. 
 
 Thomas. = Elizabeth, dau. of Eustace Fitzherbert, 
 widow of Edward Smyth of Crossing 
 Temple, Essex. [See Vn. of Essex.] 
 
 Grisegond. 
 
 John, Edward, son of Sir John Smyth =Grisegon = Andrew Jennor of Bi- 
 
 s.p. 
 
 of Cressing Temple, s.p. 
 
 gotts in Much Dunmow. 
 
 Sir Kenelm Jennor, Bart. 
 
 SMYTH 
 
 ARMS : Or, a chevron cotised sa. , between 3 roses gu. , slipped vert, impaling or 
 on a chevron between 3 cinquefoils az. as many escalops arg. , on a 
 chief per pale gu. and sa. a griffin passant erm. Hawkins. 
 
 Maria Hawkins = Milo, Bishop of Gloucester = Elizabeth, dau. of 
 
 of Cardiff. 
 
 
 1623. 
 
 Richard Lygonof 
 Madresfield, s.p. 
 
 Edward. Robert. Gervase, 
 
 Milo = Margery = 
 
 Catherine = Margaret. 
 
 of the 
 
 Eliza- Clint of 
 
 Wm. = Morgan. 
 
 Middle 
 
 beth Gloucester. 
 
 Sutton, [Compare 
 
 Temple. 
 
 Williams 
 
 Chancellor the pedi- 
 
 
 
 of Cardiff. 
 
 of Glouces- gree of 
 
 
 
 
 ter. Smith (sic) 
 
 
 
 
 of Camb- 
 
 
 
 
 den in the 
 
 
 
 
 Visitation 
 
 
 
 
 of War- 
 
 
 
 
 wickshire. 
 
 
 
 
 1619.]
 
 20 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 / 
 VISITATION OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE (Harl. MSS.) 
 
 SMYTH 
 
 ARMS : On a chevron engrailed between 6 crosses formeefitchee or an many fleurs- 
 de-lis az. 
 
 William Smyth of Humbertone (Linc.) = ... Emott. 
 
 Thomas Smyth of Hoby (Leic.)= Joan, dau. of Richard Allayne Richard. 
 
 of Derby. 
 
 John of Nibley = Mary, dau. of ([John Browning of Cowley. 
 
 John of The Middle = Anne, dau. of Sir Edward Thomas Smyth, Others. 
 Temple. Bromfeld, Lord Mayor. Commoner of 
 
 Lincoln Coll. , 
 Oxford. 
 
 Joseph Baynham of Westbere = Joane, dau. of William Smyth of Brownshill, 
 Gloucestershire, widow of Thomas Becke. 
 
 [See also Visitation 1683, SMYTH OF FARMINGTON.] 
 
 VISITATION OF HEREFORDSHIRE, 1569 
 SMITH OF CKEDENHILL 
 
 ARMS : Arg. a mount vert, a lion passant reguardant proper. 
 CREST : A horse's head sa. t bridled or.
 
 THE HERALDS' VISITATIONS 21 
 
 Richard Smith. 
 
 Thomas (21 Hen. VI.). 
 
 William = Allice, dau. of David Boys, by Joanne, dau. of Russell 
 
 of Bythell. 
 
 * John Smyth of Weare in Kenchester=Maud Hopwood. 
 
 Richard = Anne Stephens. 
 
 Richard = Sybil Barroll. Thomas t of Credenhill = Elizth. Welsh. 
 
 (l)Hugh = d. of Wm. 
 Havard. 
 (Issue.) 
 
 1 
 (2) Richard = 
 of the 
 Exche- 
 quer. 
 
 = Mary Osborne. (3) Thomas = 
 of 
 Weston 
 
 = dau. of 
 Smyth oi 
 the 
 Weare. 
 
 Peter. Francis. John. 
 Peter of Dyffryn. 
 
 Anne = Roger Elizth. = 
 Dansey 
 of Brinsop. 
 
 = Thos. Roger = Anne 
 Powys of Plumptre 
 Sutton. of Notts. 
 
 Thos. Powys of Henley, Salop. 
 
 1 ! 1 i 
 
 (4) William (5) Robt. of=Anne Wei- (6) James of = Susan (7) Symon, 
 
 of Dern- 
 
 Gard- ford. Overton. 
 
 Davis of 
 
 Chan- 
 
 dall. 
 
 wey. (Issue. ) 
 
 Red- 
 
 cellor 
 
 
 
 castell. 
 
 of St 
 
 
 
 
 David's, 
 
 
 
 
 Co3lebs. 
 
 John Smyth of = Prudence, dau. of Reginald 
 Overton, Salop. Davis of The Marsh. 
 
 Thomas = Elizabeth Marshal. 
 (Issue.) 
 
 Others. 
 
 John Smyth was "ffeffeyd" of The Weare by James Baskerville and John 
 Walwyn, being infeffyd thereof before. 
 
 John Breynton of Stratton, base son to Symonde = Elizth. , dau. of Thos. 
 Smyth of Credenhill. 
 
 Rachel Smith of Upton, Wore. = Richard Blount. 
 
 * In the reign of Hen. VIII. Thomas Wenland sued John Smith (Smyth), 
 Maud his wife, and Thomas and Alsen Smith for an assault committed in 
 Kenchester church. This was probably occasioned by odium theologicum. 
 
 t Banco Roll temp. Eliz. no date. George Ap Harry, gent., sued 
 Thomas Smyth, gent., of Credenhill to recover an estate in Newton and 
 Michaelclrarch granted to his ancestor, Ap Gwillim, Eva his wife, and the 
 heirs of their bodies, temp. Edw. III., and which had descended in tail male
 
 22 
 
 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 VISITATION OF HERTS 
 
 HAUL. MSS. APPENDIX I. (Under WATEEHOUSE OF 
 BERKHAMSTEAD) 
 
 Richard Smyth = Mary, dau. of Nich. Bonevyle. (Erm. 3 torteaux.) 
 
 John Smyth = Elizabeth, dau. of Henry Wake. 
 (Gu. a crosse erm.) 
 
 Mary = James Water-house. 
 
 SMYTH OF ANNABLES 
 
 ARMS: Quarterly (1) per bend indented or and az. 2 crosses moline counter- 
 changed ; (2) Gu. a, cross arg. over all a bend sa. (Willaby) ; 
 (3) Gu. 3 bars arg. in chief 3 plates (Coteby) ; (4) Sa. a rose between 
 3 lions rampant arg. 
 
 CREST : Out of a ducal coronet or, a falcon volant proper. 
 
 Robert Smyth of Waltham, Line. =Ellinor, dan. of Wm. Lilborne. 
 (Visn. of Line, 1562-4) 
 
 Christopher = Margaret, dau. of 
 
 Others. 
 
 of Annables, 
 Clerk of the 
 Pipe. 
 
 John Hyde. 
 
 Elizabeth Jane = 
 
 = SirE. George (1) =SirE. Clerk of 
 
 Rawle. Rotherham. Robinson ; Anderson, the 
 
 Alice = Magdalen Thomas, = Margery, Nicholas 
 
 dau. of =... Gar- 
 William dener. 
 
 (2) Sir John Chief - 
 Fortescue Justice, 
 of Salden. 
 
 Pipe. 
 
 Stooke. 
 
 Issue. 
 
 Sir George Smyth = dau. of Sir 
 
 of Annables. 
 
 Rowland 
 Lytton 
 of Kneb- 
 worth. 
 
 Rowland. 
 
 George. 
 
 until 50 years prior to the suit. The said Thomas Smyth called to warranty 
 Lewis Ap Harry of Wormbridge, and denied that the plaintiff's ancestors 
 were seized in tail. The plaintiff won the case, and the sheriff gave defendant 
 an extent of Lewis Ap Harry's lands in Wormbridge. 
 
 In the Probatio aetatis of Richard Parry temp. Hen. VI. Simon Smyth 
 with William Rowden deposed that they accompanied Anna De la Weare to 
 Turnaston church at Richard's baptism in 1409, when she was godmother, and 
 saw the walls of the church hung with banners of red and black. 
 
 Special Exchequer Commission temp. Eliz. Thomas Smyth of Madley 
 gave evidence as to Dame Parry's obstruction of the Crown Commissioners.
 
 THE HERALDS' VISITATIONS 23 
 
 VISITATION OF KENT, 1619 
 SMITH 
 
 ARMS : Erm. 3 bezants, a crescent on a mullet for difference. 
 
 CREST : Out of a ducal coronet a plume of ostrich feathers alternately vert 
 and arg. 
 
 NOTE. This Edward Smith (vide infra) beareth the same coate with Mr 
 Serjeant Smith of Greenwich with difference. 
 
 William Smith. 
 
 William = Margareta, dau. of Edward = Eliza, dau. of Sir 
 
 Richard De Stif- 
 ford, Essex. 
 
 Robert Bosville 
 de Agnes Jud. 
 
 Edward. Thomas. Humphry. Maria. 
 
 SMITH 
 
 ARMS as above. CREST also. 
 John Smith of Watton at Stone, Herts. 
 
 William of Greenwich. =Cath., dau. of Edw. Boughton of Plumstead. 
 Ob. 1621. 
 
 William of Greenwich = Alice, dau. of Walter Duppa of 
 
 (serviens ad legem. 
 Query Serjeant ?) 
 
 Greenwich, sister of the Bishop 
 of Sarum. She married, 2ndly, 
 John Bettenham of Pluckley. 
 
 Frances. William. Maria. Catherine. Elizabeth =Ackworth Lucretia. 
 
 of Wolwiche. 
 
 SMITH OF BUCKLAND PEOPE MAIDSTONE 
 
 ARMS : Or 3 bars and in chief as many crosses patee fitchee. all sa. 
 
 CREST : On a mount vert a talbot sejeant erm. collared and ringed or, eared 
 gu. , regarding a branch of laurel proper. 
 
 Symon de Bucklande 
 
 John, juris peritus, Symon de Boughton Monchelsey. 
 
 s.p. 
 
 Symon de Chart, juxta Sutton = Maria, daughter of Wm. Hales of Tenterden. 
 Edward. John. Anna Maria. Alicia Margareta. Elizabeth (eldest dau. ).
 
 24 
 
 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 Hasted carries this line forward from John, second 
 son of Symon de Chart; thus : 
 
 John (1629) = Mary, dau. of Dean Bargrave of Canterbury, by 
 Elizabeth, dau. of John Dering, who died 1667. 
 The Dean died 1642. 
 
 John = 
 A son = 
 
 Rev. John, vicar of= 
 Lested and (1687-1732) 
 rector of Hastingleigh. 
 
 Others 
 
 John = Elizabeth, dau. of Major 
 
 ob. 
 
 ante 
 
 1752. 
 
 Whitfield, living in 1782, 
 and seized of Boughton 
 Monchelsey. 
 
 till 
 Felicia. Elizabeth. Anna Maria. Dorothea. 
 
 Arms confirmed by Camden Clarencieux, 1605. 
 [See also an extended pedigree of this line by Berry.] 
 
 SMYTH OF MUCH WAELINGFIELD 
 
 John of M. W. = Leticia. 
 
 Jeremias of the City of Canterbury = Katherine, dau. of Daniel Wilkinson 
 
 of the same City. 
 
 William. 
 
 I 
 Thomas 
 
 Jeremias. 
 
 Mabilla.
 
 THE HERALDS' VISITATIONS 
 
 25 
 
 SMITH OF OSTENHANGER 
 
 ARMS : Quarterly of 12: (1) Az. a chevron engrailed, between 3 lions passant 
 guardant or ; (2) Gu. a fesse embattled raguly, counter embattled 
 between 3 boars' heads erased arg. ; (3) az. 3 lioncels rampant within 
 a bordure arg. ; (4) or, 2 chevronels and a canton gu. ; (5) or, a cross 
 voided gu. ; (6) or, 5 chevronels gu. ; (7) gu. a chevron between 3 
 cinquefoils or; (8) sa. across voided or; (9) Erm. a fesse vaire or 
 and gu. ; (10) or, on a chevron sa. a mullet arg. ; (11) az. a unicorn 
 salient arg. ; (12) vert, a chevron between 3 eagles displayed or. 
 
 CREST : A leopard's head erased arg. pelletee, collared, lined, and double- 
 ringed or. 
 
 John Smith = Alice . . , 
 
 John Smyth de Corsham, Wilts = Agnes or Joan Branker. 
 (ob. 1539) I 
 
 Eliza = ...Horspoole. Thomas of Ostenhanger, = Alicia, heiress of Sir Andrew 
 
 known as "Customer," 
 ob. 1591, buried at 
 Ashford. 
 
 Judd, Lord Mayor. 
 
 Maria = Davis. A dau. = ( 1 ) Harding. 
 (2) Butler. 
 
 I 
 Cath. = ( 1 ) Sir Row- Alice = Harris of 
 land Hay- Wood- 
 ward of hay. 
 London. 
 (2) John Scott 
 of Scots Hall. 
 
 Sir John of Ostenhanger, = 
 Eques auratus. 
 
 = Elizth., dau. Sir Thomas of = (1) Judith, dau. of 
 of John Budborough, Richd. Culverwell. 
 Fineux of Eques auratus, (2) Sara, dau. of 
 Herne. Ambassador Sir William Blunt, 
 to Russia. 
 
 Cath. = Cath. = 
 (l)Sir SirH. 
 Henry Neville 
 Baker of of Billing - 
 Sissing- beare. 
 hurst. 
 (2) Geo. 
 Lowe, ob. 
 1629. 
 
 Thomas of 
 Ostr. = 
 Barbara, 
 dau. of the 
 Earl of Lei- 
 cester of 
 Penshurst. 
 
 Sir John = Lady Isabella, dau. of the 
 Smyth Earl of Warwick. 
 
 Other children of the above Thomas of Ostenhanger who died in 1591 : 
 
 (1) Henry Smyth = Elizth., dau. (2) Elizth. = Henry (3) Symon, killed at 
 of Corsham. of Judge Thos. Fanshaw. the Siege of Cadiz. 
 
 Owen. 
 
 We note also in this Visitation that Dorothea Walker or Waller of Fawkham 
 married Michael Smith, also of Fawkham.
 
 26 
 
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 THE HERALDS' VISITATIONS 27 
 
 VISITATION OF LEICESTERSHIRE, 1624 
 SMITH OF WITHCOTE 
 
 ARMS : Ou. on a chevron or between 3 bezants as many crosses 
 patee fitchee sa. 
 
 John Smith als Harris of Withcote = Dorothy Cave. 
 
 Roger = Prances, dau. of Francis. Anthony. Erasmus = Margaret, aister 
 Sir T. Griffin of of Lord Burgh- 
 
 Dingley. ley. 
 
 3 daus. 
 
 3 sons. 
 
 Margaret = Gilbert Bery. Ambrose =... Coo. George = Mary Alles. Others 
 
 Sir Wm., Knighted = Elizabeth, dau of 
 1601. Alderman Simian. 
 
 4 sons. 
 
 4 sons. 
 
 2 daus. 
 
 This pedigree has been styled Smith of Withcock, but Withcote would seem 
 to be the correct reading. For a fuller account of the family, whose real name 
 was Heriz, see " English Pedigrees," Chapter VI. 
 
 [Vide infra, Visitation of London, 1568.]
 
 28 
 
 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 VISITATION OF LINCOLNSHIRE, 1562 
 
 SMYTH OF HACKTHOKPE 
 [i.e. ELKINGTON] 
 
 Sir Randulfe Oteley Smyth = ... 
 
 John Oteley = ... 
 
 i 
 Robert Pelsham, Willaby als = Isabel, daughter and 
 
 Willarby. 
 
 heir to John Oteley. 
 
 John Smyth of Hackthorpe in = Jane, dau. and heir to 
 
 Lincoln. 
 
 Robert Willabye. 
 
 John Smyth = . . . 
 
 John 
 
 Smith =... 
 
 William Smith =... 
 
 William Smith =.. 
 
 Thomas Smith, 
 eldest son. 
 
 uxor to 
 Rosse. 
 
 William Smith : 
 2 sons. 
 
 uxor to uxor to uxor to 
 Manby. Lyanby. Gilby. 
 
 rt Smith = Elinor, dau. and heir to 
 William Lylbourne. 
 
 Henrey Smith, Christopher Smith, = Margaret, dau. Elizabeth, uxor 
 
 ns. Esq., son and heir, to John Hide. Willm. Usthwait. 
 
 I till 
 
 Alice, (1) mar. to Thomas Smith Maudlyn, uxor Elizabeth, uxor Others. 
 Robinson of Lon- of Annas in to Edward An- toEdwardFaw- 
 don, (2) to Jo. Lincolnshire. derson, Miles. ley, Miles. 
 Fortescue, 
 Knight an d 
 Councillor. 
 
 For the full pedigree of Smyth of Elkington, see Chapter III. 
 
 VISITATION OF MIDDLESEX, 1663 
 
 See SMITH OF HAMMERSMITH and SMITH OF ST GILES CRIPPLECATB.
 
 THE HERALDS' VISITATIONS 29 
 
 VISITATION OF LONDON, 1633 
 SMIJTH OF NORBORNE 
 
 Leonard Smijth. 
 Harry. 
 
 i j i i i 
 
 John. William. Elizabeth = Richard Castlenau, Margaret. Thomaain. 
 
 merchant. 
 
 SMYTH OF NORTHANTS 
 
 James Smyth. 
 
 John of Spoford Yorke = Kath., dau. of Robt. Thompson of Weatherby. 
 
 Robert, grocer = Thomazin, dau. of Oswald, grocer = Anne, dau. of Edw. 
 
 Ford of Keldon 1633. 
 
 Hall, Essex. 
 
 Dene of Great 
 Missenden. 
 
 James, set. 26, in 1633. 
 
 Henry, = Magdalen, dau. Susan = Francis Clark . Katherin = Richard 
 
 grocer, of William Longfield of Lon- 
 
 1633. Morley of Chi- don, draper. 
 
 Chester. 
 
 SMITH 
 
 Peter, of London, fishmonger. 
 
 ! 
 
 Thomas, mer- = Jane, dau. of John Anthony. Richard. Mary, 
 
 chant, 1631. Robinson of London. 
 
 ! I 
 
 John = Mary, dau. of Edmund Wright, Henry. Thomas. 
 
 Alderman. 
 
 Mary = Humfry, 3rd son Jane= William, 2nd son Martha=Archdall 
 of Alderman of Sir John Gore. Palmer of 
 
 Bennett. London. 
 
 SMYTH 
 
 Robert, of London, draper, ob. at Stoke Prior, Wore. 
 
 Robert, draper = Mary, dau. of ... Baines, merchant. 
 
 Robert, draper, living in 1633= Judith, dau. of Nicholas Wansley, draper. 
 
 Robert. James. Ester.
 
 30 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 SMYTH 
 
 Roger of Holborne, a courseter. 
 
 Martin, one of ye cursitors = Audrey, dau. of Richard Edlin of Pinner. 
 
 Richard (cursetor), living 1634 = Mary, dau. of Thomas Motham. 
 
 SMYTH * 
 
 Randolfe Smyth of Rochdale, Lane. 
 
 Richard, fishmonger, ob. 1591 = Margaret, dau. of Anthony Creed of Wilts. 
 
 Thomas of Bow Lane, living 1634, set. 67. 
 
 SMYTH 
 
 Quartering 9 coats i.e. Smith, Jude, Chiche, Chicheley, Appulderfield, 
 Criall, Creneure, Auvranches, Marfen. 
 
 [ Vide Visitation of Kent. ] 
 Thomas of Ostenhanger = Alice, dau. of Sir Andrew Jude. 
 
 i 
 
 Sir John. Sir Thomas. Henry of = Elizabeth, dau. SirRichd. Root. Simon. 
 Cossam, of Serjeant 
 
 Wilts. 
 
 Owen. 
 
 Thomas, Receiver of the Duchy of = Isabel, dau. of John Ayliffe of 
 
 Lancaster, 1634. 
 
 Grittercham, Wilts. 
 
 I I I 
 
 John. Thomas. Richard. Simon. 
 
 SMITH 
 
 John Smith of Church Lawford, Warw. 
 
 Thomas of S. Mary Magd. = Jane, dau. of Leonard Lister, of 
 Milk St. Living 1634. Little Willaston, Salop. 
 
 Thomas of Westerham = Thomasina, dau. of Xpof er Loveday of London. 
 
 * The Visitation of London, 1568, gives the following version of this 
 pedigree : 
 
 Or, on a chief sa. a lion passant of the first. 
 
 Randolf Smyth of Ratsdale Lane. = Margt. Hames. 
 
 Richard, fishmonger = Margaret, dau. of Anthony Creede of Wilts. 
 Thomas.
 
 THE HERALDS' VISITATIONS 31 
 
 VISITATION OF LONDON, 1568 
 
 Arg. on a cross compony countercompony or and az. between 4 lions passant sa. 
 John Smyth of Staffordshire. 
 
 Humphrey of Southampton = Alice Case of Somerset. 
 
 John of London = Magdalen, dau. of Sir John Hawes. 
 
 SMYTHE 
 
 Gu. on a chevron or between 3 bezants, 3 crosses patee fitchee, in chief a martlet 
 
 of the second. 
 
 John Hares als Smyth = Dorothy, dau. of R. Cave 
 
 of Withcock 
 
 of Stanford. 
 
 Roger. Francis. Clement. Ambrose =Joane, Eras- Robert. Anthony. George. 
 
 dau. of mus. 
 John 
 Coo of 
 Coxall. 
 
 I I . I III 
 
 Henry. Frances. Margaret. Ellen. Dorothy. Ann. 
 
 [ Vide Visitation of Leicester. ] 
 
 VISITATION OF NORFOLK, 1612 
 SMYTH 
 
 AKMS : On a fesse between 3 crosses formee fitchee or as many eagles dis- 
 played sa. 
 
 CREST : An arm embowed proper, tied round the wrist with a riband az., and 
 holding the butt end of a tilting spear or. 
 
 John Smyth of Nedginge, Suff. =dau. of Smyth of Higham. 
 
 Hugh of Leynham = Alice Donne, 
 
 Elizth. = R. Tyll. John of Garbesham = 
 and H on don. 
 
 1 
 -Elizth., dau. of Alice = Thos. 
 Wm. Clapton of Hervye 
 Kentwell. of Clare. 
 
 Thos. Francis, Frances = Thos. 
 unmar- s.p. Warren of Gt. 
 ried, Thurloe. 
 1612. 
 
 Elizth. = Susan = Anne= 
 (1) John Vere of Richard 
 Colville, Ketton. Peede of 
 (2) John Berry, 
 Page. Suff.
 
 32 
 
 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 SMYTH OF WALSHAM 
 
 ARMS : Per chevron nebulee sa. and or 3 panthers 1 head* erased, counter- 
 changed. A horse's head erased per chevron nebulae and sa. 
 
 John Smyth of Walsham, Suff. = Alice Halys of Walsham. 
 
 Katherine, dau. of = Thomas of Walsham = Jone, dau. of Jo 
 
 ihn. 
 
 John Paske. 
 
 Wm. Leggatt. 
 
 Isabel = 
 Wm. 
 Ho well. 
 
 1 son. 
 
 8 daus. 
 
 Thomas, John of=Elizth., dau. of Hugh Wilkenson Kath. = Stephen 
 
 heir. Owlde of Owlde B. Taylor of 
 
 Bucken- Eccles. 
 ham. 
 
 Thomas of = Dorothy, dau. of Hugh Wilkenson 
 
 Owlde 
 
 Bucken- 
 
 ham. 
 
 of O.B. 
 
 Others i.e. 
 4 sons. 2 daus. 
 
 Thomas = Mary, dau. of John Mynors 
 of Baldshall, Herts., whose 
 wife was Awfield of Glou- 
 cester. 
 
 I I 
 
 William. John. Elizth. = 
 
 Nich. Edgar 
 of Ashe. 
 
 Jo 
 
 hn. 
 
 4 daus. 
 
 SMYTH 
 
 ARMS : Az. a bend erm. between 12 billets or. 
 
 CREST : On a chapeau gu. , turned up erm. , 2 wings expanded az. , each 
 charged with a bend erm. between 6 billets or. 
 
 Nicholas Smyth of Suffolk. 
 
 John Smyth of Halysworth, Suff. = Agnes, dau. of Robert Crane 
 
 of Chilton, Suff. 
 
 John Smyth of Gunton, Norf . = Amye, dau. of Martin Sidley of 
 
 Morley, Norf. 
 
 .1 I I 
 
 Agnes. Jane. Dorothy. 
 
 Awdrey Thwaites married secondly John Smyth of Wall Sutton in Mershland.
 
 THE HERALDS' VISITATIONS 
 
 SMYTH OF CAVENDISH 
 
 ARMS : Quarterly 1 and 4 arg. , a chevron gu. between 3 crosses crosslet sa. ; 2 
 and 3 arg. on a chevron between 3 lion's gambs erased sa. an annulet. 
 Over all four a crescent for difference. 
 
 John Smyth of Cavendish, 2nd son of John = a dau. of Brecknok, Bucks. 
 
 John of Cavendish = 
 
 = Agnes, dau. of John Way, 
 or Raye, of Deverston. 
 
 1 
 Margaret = Barnard. 
 
 ( 1 ) Barbara, = Thomas = 
 dau. of of 
 Thos. Ben- Mersh- 
 dish of land, 
 Bumstead, Nor- 
 Essex. folk. 
 
 = (2)Elizth, (3) Frances, John, 
 dau. of dau. of 
 Jasper Thos.Digby, of 
 Pryce of Welby, Leic., a. p. 
 Godman- 
 chester. 
 
 Henry. Loare Other 
 (Laura), daus. 
 
 4 sons 
 
 I I I 
 
 cms. 1 dau. 1 son. 1 dau. 
 
 ARMS : Arg. a chevron gu. between 3 crosses crosslet sa.,a crescent for difference. - 
 
 John Smith. 
 
 I 
 
 John of Cavendish, Suff. =dau. of Thos. Cavendish of Lingford. 
 
 John a quo Smyth of Symon, s.p. 
 
 Cavendish. 
 
 Thomas =; Elizth. , dau. of Peter 
 I Payne of Rowdham. 
 
 Richard of Bawton = Elizth. , dau. of John, and sister of Sir 
 Robert, Chester of Royston. 
 
 Thomas. Richard of = Elizth., dau. of Margery = Wm. Anne = Ellis of 
 
 Carlton 
 John. Rode. 
 
 John Long of 
 Gt. Levermere. 
 
 Curtys of 
 London. 
 
 Long 
 Melford.. 
 
 William. | 
 
 6 sons. 
 Robert. 
 
 4 daus.
 
 34 
 
 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 SMITH OF WYGHTON 
 
 ARMS : Paly of six arg. and az. on a chief or 3 greyhounds' headf erased sa. , 
 
 collared or, ringed gu. 
 CREST : An heraldic antelope's head, erased or, attired, maned and tusked sa., 
 
 collared gu. , studded, lined, and ringed or. 
 
 John Barnesdale of = Mary, dau. of Thomas Gaytonthorpe 
 Barwyk, Norf. of Gaytonthorpe. 
 
 Catherine, dau. of John Barnesdale = John Smyth of Wyghton. 
 
 George, John = Mary, dau. 
 
 1 
 Agnes = Wm. 
 
 1 
 Margery 
 
 Alice = Win. Mary = 
 
 s.p. 
 
 of Thos. 
 
 Baxter of 
 
 = Robt. 
 
 Pepys of 
 
 Robt. 
 
 
 Goddard 
 
 Kings Lynn. 
 
 Baxter of 
 
 Cotnam, 
 
 Joyce of 
 
 
 of Overton, 
 
 
 Stannow. 
 
 Camb. 
 
 Grundis- 
 
 
 Wi^ts. 
 
 
 
 
 boro', Suff. 
 
 John = Mary, dau. of Sir George. 
 I Anthony Hevingham. 
 
 Gregory of = ...Lound of 
 London. I Essex. 
 
 Others. 
 
 Roger. 
 
 John = dau. of Thos. Cordall. 
 
 SMYTH OF RIVENHALL 
 
 ARMS : Quarterly 1 and 4 ar 9- a cross gu. between 4 peacocks close az. 2. 
 Quarterly 1 and 4- Quarterly arg. and sa., in first quarter a fleur- 
 de-lis gu., and in 4th an erm. spot. 2 and 3. Arg. on a chevron az. 
 3 escalops of the first, on a chief of the second a lion passant arg. 3. 
 Ou. , 3 garbs arg. banded or ; over all the quarterings a martlet, or 
 annulet, for difference. CREST : A peacock? s head erased sa. 
 
 (1) Ann, dau. of Gernon, and = John Smyth =(2) Mylecent, dau. of Robt. 
 widow of Baynard. of Rivenhall. Laynham of Lay n ham. 
 
 ( 1 ) Hamond = Thomas of Rivenhall = (2) Elizth. , sister of Sir John, Baron of 
 
 Henry Toffte of The Exchequer. 
 
 _ Little Baddow. 
 Thomas. John. Mylecent = A dau. = 
 
 IW. Bromp- Hawkes. 
 ton. 
 
 Nicholas of 
 Laynham. 
 
 Reignold. 
 
 Anne = Sir John 
 
 Wm. Clement of dau. of 
 
 Tusser. of Little Blacka- Colt. 
 Baddow. more. 
 
 I I I 
 
 Elizth. , = Leonard = Kath. Mary = John Kath- 
 
 of Shuld- Hast- Skyll. erine, a 
 
 ham. ing. nun. 
 
 Sir Ji 
 
 Sir John. 
 
 I I I 
 
 Jane. Leonard. Henry. Ed- 
 
 ward. 
 
 I I 
 
 John, Attorney = Jane, dau. of Henry Elizth. 
 
 of the King's 
 Bench. 
 
 Lyght of Lyghtslary, 
 Somerset. 
 
 4 sons and 2 daus.
 
 THE HERALDS' VISITATIONS 35 
 
 VISITATION OF NORTHANTS, 1618 
 SMITH OF POTTEESPUEY 
 
 ARMS : ^a. a chevron between 3 cinquefoils pierced erm. 
 
 CREST: A talbot's head gu., charged on the neck with a cinque/oil pierced 
 erm. 
 
 William Smith als Kent = Mary Marsey of Berwood. 
 
 Joyce = Thos. Addington. Susan = (1) W. Illing. Thomas = Elizabeth 
 
 (2) Hercules (living | Saunders of 
 Wincot. 1618). Longmarsion. 
 
 William, Thomas. Anthony. Margaret. Susan. 
 set. 6, 1618. 
 
 VISITATION OF NORTHANTS,- 1618 
 SMYTH OF KELMAESH 
 
 ARMS : Gu. on a chevron or between 3 bezants, as many crosses patee fitchee 
 sa. 
 
 CREST : An arm erect vested per pale or and gu., the handppr., grasping a 
 griffin's head, erased az. beaked or. 
 
 John S. of Withcote, = Dorothy, dau. of Richard = Henry Poole, Knt. 
 
 Leic., 1546. 
 
 Cave of Stanford, Nor- of the Rhodes, 
 thants. 
 
 Roger of With- Margaret, dau. of = Erasmus S. ..., dau. of ... Francis. 
 
 cote, ob. 1603. Richard Cecill, of Bos- 
 [ Vide Leicester. ] widow of Roger worth, 
 Cave of Stanford. Leic. 
 
 Baiard 
 (Visn. 
 Leic. ), 
 widow of 
 ... Wye. 
 
 I I 
 
 James of Kelmarsh, Jane, dau. of = Roger of Kelmarsh, = Ann, dau. of 
 
 1618. Sir Edward 
 
 Heron, Knt. , 
 Baron of the 
 Exchequer. 
 
 Northants, 1618. 
 
 ... Goodman 
 of London. 
 
 Alithea. Edw. Smith, son and John S. Erasmus. Ann. Dorothy. 
 
 [Vide Visn. heir, set. 19, 1618. 
 
 Leic. ] Roger. Mary.
 
 36 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 VISITATION OF NOTTS, 1569-1614 
 SMYTH 
 
 Anne Markham of Alberton = Sir Thomas or Sir Francis Smyth. 
 Robert Eyre of Hodloke = Katherine, dau. of Giles Smith of Tirkhill, York. 
 Henry Cressy of Oldcotes = Catherine, dau. of Sir Richard Smyth of 
 Walkeringham, Notts. 
 
 Adam Leeke of Hallom = Elizabeth, dau. of Martin Smith of Carlton, Notts. 
 John Sandford of Bakewell, Derby = Joan, dau. of Roger Smyth. 
 
 VISITATION OF OXFORD, 1624 
 
 Robert Smyth of Prescot, Lancashire, had issue (1) Robert, (2) William, 
 Bishop of Lincoln and Founder of B.N.C. Robert, the elder son, of Curdesley 
 (Cuerdley), Lanes., had issue (1) Richard, (2) William, Archdeacon of Stowe, 
 Lincolnshire. Richard Smyth, the elder son = Alice, dau. of Richard Denton 
 (of Ambrosden), and had issue, with others Thomas Smyth of Oxford = 
 Rose, dau. of William Buckner of Botley, by whom he had a numerous issue, 
 entries whereof occur in the Registers of St Aldate's Church in the City 
 of Oxford. 
 
 VISITATION OF SALOP, 1623 
 SMITH OF MOEVILL 
 
 ARMS : Sa. , a bend between 6 martlets arg. 
 
 Richard of Morvell=Mary Gery of Ciff Prope Weme. 
 
 Roger = Frances, dau. of Rd. Cressett of Upton Cressett. 
 
 George of Morvell=Mary, dau. of Robt. Piggott of Chetwyn. 
 
 Elizth., widow of John = Richard Smyth of Bridgenorth=Mary, dau. of Chas. 
 
 Kelpos of Watergate, 
 Staff. 
 
 Hibbins de Weo. 
 
 2 sons and 4 daus. John of Morvill = ... dau. of Thos. Vernon 
 
 of Hartington. 
 
 Jane Weaver, widow = George of Morvill=Jane, dau. of Sir Hugh 
 
 Browne, Knt. 
 
 George.
 
 THE HERALDS' VISITATIONS 
 
 37 
 
 SMITH OF OVEKTON 
 
 ( Compare Visitation of Herefordshire) 
 
 ARMS : Harl. 1396. Arg. on a mount vert a lion passant reguardant proper, 
 
 granted 1590. 
 CREST : A horse's head erased chestnut, maned sable. 
 
 Thomas Smith of Credenhill = Elizabeth Welshe. 
 
 I 
 
 1 I 
 
 | 
 
 | 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 Thomas 
 
 Richard Thomas, 
 
 William de 
 
 Simon, 
 
 Robert 
 
 Jacob = Susan, 
 
 or Hugo 
 
 de Sea- 3rd son. 
 
 Derndell, 
 
 Cancel- 
 
 de Good- 
 
 de 
 
 dau. of 
 
 of Fox- 
 
 cario, 
 
 4th son. 
 
 larius 
 
 way, 
 
 Over- 
 
 John 
 
 ley =... 
 
 2nd son 
 
 
 
 Menin- 
 
 5th son 
 
 ton, 
 
 Davies 
 
 
 
 = ... Os- 
 
 
 
 ensis. 
 
 = Anna 
 
 6th 
 
 of 
 
 
 
 borne. 
 
 
 
 
 Welford. 
 
 son. 
 
 Rich- 
 
 
 
 | 
 
 
 
 
 | 
 
 
 ards 
 
 3 sons. 
 
 3 sons and 
 
 3 sons and 
 
 
 3 sons and 
 
 Castle. 
 
 
 2 daus. 
 
 1 dau. 
 
 
 2 daus. 
 
 
 
 Others. (1) Jacob de = Prudence, dau. 
 
 Overton, 
 1623, 
 
 of Reginald 
 Davies de la 
 Marche. 
 
 (2) Thomas Smith = 
 Elizabeth, dau. of 
 Thomas Mascall. 
 
 1 son and 2 daus. 
 
 VISITATION OF SOMEKSET, 1623 
 SMITH 
 
 [The griffin's head, their crest, was granted by Hawley, Clarencieux, 
 36 Hen. VIII.] 
 
 John Smith of Alberton, Glos., living 14 Hen. VI. 
 
 Robert 
 
 I 
 John 
 
 Mathew 
 John of Long Ashton. 36 Hen. VIII. 
 
 Hugh Smith of L. Ashton. His 
 dau. = Morgan of Llanterner. 
 
 Mathew of L. = Widow Skerne. 
 Ashton I 
 
 Sir Hugh = 
 
 A dau. = Sir Geo. A dau. = Giffard Jane = Mat- Sir Hugh 
 Rodney. of Salop. hewes of living 
 
 Radnor. 1623. 
 
 Elizth.,dau.of 
 Sir Thomas 
 Gorge, and 
 sister to 
 Lord Gorge. 
 
 Helena = Sir Francis Rogers of 
 Cannington, Somerset. 
 
 Mary = Sir Thos. Smith of Thomas, set. 14, 
 West Chester. 1623.
 
 38 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 SMITHES OF WEENTON 
 
 John, living in 1623 = Joane Dorington. 
 
 i i i i i i 
 
 Jane = Edw. A dau. = Bis- Adau. =Farwy Judith = John (25 Elizth. = 
 
 Barnett of set of Bat- of Brockley. ...Taver- in 1623) Robert 
 
 Downshill. comb. nor. =Adau. Godwyn 
 
 ofFowen of Ow- 
 
 of Bristol, key. 
 
 VISITATION OF STAFFOED, 1583 
 
 See SMITH OF NEWCASTLE, and 1614, 1663, SMITH OF HANLEY. 
 
 VISITATION OF SUFFOLK, 1612 
 SMITH OF GOELESTON 
 
 Thomas Smith = a dau. of Robert Hart. 
 
 John. 7 other sons. 
 
 [See also in Visitations 1561, 1577, 1612, SMITH OF NETTLESTEAD and 
 SMYTH OF DENSTON.] 
 
 VISITATION OF SUEREY, 1623 
 SMYTH OF PEPEEHAROW 
 
 ARMS : Per pale or and az. a chevron between S lions passant-guardant 
 counterchanged, a crescent for difference. 
 
 Christopher Smyth of Hagthorpe, Line. (i.e. Hackthorpe.) 
 Thomas Smyth of London. 
 
 lenery of Peperharow= Jane, sister of Sir Walter Covert of Slaugham. 
 
 iiam=Anne, sister 
 'th ofWm. ... 
 ,yall doctor to 
 Queen 
 Elizabeth. 
 
 )hn Smyth. 
 
 Jane = (l) 
 Ninian Bur- 
 rell of Cock- 
 field; (2) 
 Peter Cou- 
 thop of 
 Cambrook, 
 Kent. 
 
 Richard Smyth 
 of Peperharow 
 = Anne, dau. 
 of Richard 
 Robinson of 
 London. 
 
 Elizabeth = 
 James 
 Franklin of 
 Maidstone.
 
 THE HERALDS' VISITATIONS 
 
 39 
 
 SMYTH OF SOUTHWAKK 
 
 ARMS : A lion passant. 
 
 CREST : A sleeved arm embowed, holding a broken tilting spear. 
 = Thomas Smyth of Layham, Suff. = Joane Downes. 
 
 Thomas. 
 
 John of Sudbury = Mary Syday of 
 Lenham, Suff. 
 
 Elizabeth, daughter of = Robert Smyth, = Elizabeth, dau. of Oliffe 
 Thos. Ball of Hadley, J.P. for South- Burgh of Southwark, 
 Suff. and widow of wark. and widow of John 
 
 Oliver Ailward. Burgh. 
 
 SMYTH OF MITCHAM 
 
 ARMS : Arg. on a chevron engrailed az., between 3 greyhounds' headt erated 
 sa., collared gu., as many estoiles or. 
 
 CREST : A buck's head and neck couped gu. , attired arg. 
 
 Mary Cely= Thomas Smyth =Ellinor Haselrigge of Leicester, 
 of Micham who re-married Bart. Clarke. 
 
 Ellinor Smyth Mary Smyth George Smyth Thomas = Sara, dau. Others 
 = Dr Gilbert = Sir John ofMycham(sic) of 
 
 Bourne. 
 
 Leigh of =RoseWor- Mycham 
 
 Micham. sop of Clap- 
 
 ham. 
 
 of Alder- 
 man Sir 
 Humphrey 
 Handford, 
 Knt. 
 
 George. Sara. Rose.
 
 40 
 
 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 VISITATION OF SUEREY, 1623 
 
 Elizabeth Offley [Offley of Maresley] = Sir John Smyth of Thetford. 
 
 SMYTH OF MERKOW 
 
 ARMS : Arg. on a bende between 2 unicorns' heads erased az. 3 lozenges or. 
 CREST: Out of a coronet a demi-bull differenced with a mullet. 
 
 Anthony Smyth of Merrow, = Joane, dau. of Thomas Herwood 
 
 Steward to Lady Knevett, 
 born at Escrick, York. 
 
 of Hall Place in Merrow. 
 
 Thomas, Mayor of Guildford. 
 
 Nicholas. Henery, = Jane, dau. of John 
 
 John of Merrow = Rose, dau. of 
 Stevens of 
 Horsley, 
 Surrey. 
 
 Mayor 
 of Guild- 
 ford. 
 
 Weston of Oke- 
 ham. 
 
 Henery. 
 
 Thomas. 
 
 Anthony Smyth. 
 
 Rev. Richard 
 Smyth, B.D., 
 of Sheere. 
 
 NOTE. Arms of Smyth in this Visitation not assigned to any particular 
 family ; Arg. a chevron cotised between 3 crosses pat6e gules. 
 
 SMYTH 
 
 ARMS : Sa. a cross proper. 
 
 CREST : A greyhound couchant or, collared and lined sa. 
 
 Robert Smith, als Hovel, of Badwell, Norf. 
 
 Robert of = Elizabeth, dau. 
 
 Thomas 
 
 John = . . . Arthur of 
 
 Elizabeth 
 
 Badwell 
 
 of Robert Smyth 
 
 of Ash- 
 
 
 Hunston 
 
 = ...How- 
 
 
 of Walsam in the 
 
 field = 
 
 
 = ... An- 
 
 letfc. 
 
 
 Willows, Suff. 
 
 Anne 
 
 
 stey. 
 
 
 
 
 Anstey, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 s.p. 
 
 1 I 
 
 
 
 
 
 John. Richard. 
 
 
 Thomas Smyth of Ro 
 Chertsey, Serjeant Leather- 
 of the Carriages = seller. 
 Elizabeth, dau. of 
 Sir John Watts, Robert. 
 
 Lord Mayor. 
 
 Elizabeth... John of=Priscilla, Elizabeth 
 
 Ash- 
 field. 
 
 dau. of = . . . Mor- 
 Walter ris. 
 Brampton. 
 
 I III 
 
 John. Walter. X'pofler. Priscilla. Anne.
 
 THE HERALDS' VISITATIONS 41 
 
 VISITATION OF WARWICKSHIRE, 1619 
 
 Sir William Carington = Anne, dau. of Sir Edm. Farwell 
 by the dau. of Robert Coventry. 
 
 Sir Wm. Carington = Katherine, dau. of Wm. Montague of Sarum. 
 
 s. Cari 
 
 Sir Thos. Carington = Margaret, dau. of Sir Robert Roose. 
 
 John Carington als Smith, = Milecencia. 
 ob. 1446. 
 
 Thomas Smith of Rivenhall = Hamond. 
 
 Thomas of Rivenhall = Isabel, dau. of Wm. Hugh of Robert. John. 
 I Toffte of Little Bedow. Witham. 
 
 (1) Thomas. 
 
 (2) Sir Clement. 
 
 ... Wood = (Sir) John (of Cress- = Agnes, dau. of John 
 ing Temple). Harwell of Wootton 
 
 _ in Warw. 
 
 Sir John, 1593. 
 
 (3) Leonard. 
 
 (4) John of Blackmore. Thomas of Crossing Francis = Mary , dau. of 
 
 Temple. 
 Hugh. 
 
 John Moreton of 
 Ashley.* 
 
 George t = Mary,I dau. of Sir Thos. Giffard, by Ursula, 
 dau. of Robt. Throckmorton. 
 
 jbt. 
 
 George. Thomas. John. Robt. Edw. Francis = Anne, dau. of Thos. 
 
 Markham of Notts. 
 
 Thomas Charles 
 
 (2nd son). (eldest son). 
 
 Mary. 
 
 * i.e. Ashby Folville. 
 
 t According to one version, Francis. 
 
 J According to one version, Anne. 
 
 Another version gives two other sons viz. Francis and John.
 
 42 
 
 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 SMITH OF CAMBDEN 
 
 ( Vide Visitation of Gloucester] 
 
 ARMS : Sa. on afesse between 3 saltires cusped or as many fleurs-de-lis gu. 
 Thomas Smith of Cambden Kath. , dau. of Sir George Throgmorton, 
 
 
 and widow of Robert Winter. 
 
 Paulus. Sir Thos., s.p. 
 Lucas. 
 Daniell. 
 
 Anthonie De Campden, = 
 living in 1593. 
 
 = Joanne, dau. of 
 Sir Roger Martin 
 
 1 
 Thomas. 
 
 Grisegonda. 
 
 Elizabeth = Walsh of Richard = Maria, dau. of Anne. Cath. = Sam well 
 Hereford. Hugh Elston. Tracie. 
 
 Silvanus. 
 
 Mary. 
 
 Samwell. Catherine. 
 
 VISITATION OF WILTS 
 
 See Smith of Baydon. 
 
 VISITATION OF WORCESTERSHIRE, 1620 
 SMYTH 
 
 ARMS : Az. two bars wavy erm. on a chief or a demilion issuant erm. 
 CREST : Between 2 wings expanded gu. an ostrich head couped quarterly set. and 
 arg. holding in the beak a horseshoe or. 
 
 Edward Smyth of Stoke Prior, Wore. = Dorathey, dau. of Edw. Denton 
 
 of Ambrosden, Oxon. 
 
 Edward. 
 
 Joyce. 
 
 SMYTH OF COPCOTE 
 
 ARMS : Sa. a bend between 3 mullets of 6 points pierced arg. 
 John Smyth of Copcote = Allice Pyrrday of Martin Hussintree. 
 Robert. 
 Edmond. 
 John = ... Harding. 
 
 Thomas, s.p. 
 
 Agnes Harewell of Wootten, Warw. = Sir John Smyth, Knight, of WootUn, 
 jure uxoris. 
 
 Elizabeth Compton of Hartbury = William Smyth.
 
 THE HERALDS VISITATIONS 43 
 
 VISITATION OF YORKS 
 No Pedigree of Smith 
 
 NOTES. George, 2nd son of Sir John Lyttelton of Frankley (Worc.) = 
 Margaret, dau. of Sir Richard Smyth. 
 Mary Pudsey of Barforth = Rychard Smyth of Caton. 
 Agnes Clysby = Thomas Smyth. 
 Thomas or Anthony Smith of Ketton or Sketton = Anne Margaret Bellasya. 
 
 Among the publications of the Harl. Soc. we 
 find a number of later pedigrees styled Families 
 Minorum Gentium. The name of Smith or Smyth 
 occurs as follows : 
 
 Smith, or Wakefield, of Rotherham. 
 
 Thomas = Anne Wordsworth. 
 
 Thomas of =Bettie. Wm. = Shuldham. John, James = Frances Kinderley. 
 
 Sheffield. 
 
 s.p. 
 
 (issue. ) 
 
 Richard. Frances J. = J. Martin. Sarah M. = Chas. Lloyd, Esther = C. Western, 
 
 LL.D. 
 
 1, Esther =C. 1 
 
 Sir James E. = Pleasaunce, Francis = Sarah John F. =E. T. A., dau. of 
 
 dau. of Robt. 
 Reeve of 
 Lowestoft. 
 
 Marsh. Captain 
 
 Howarth, R.N. 
 
 Frances C. =Alf. Bar- Harriett = C. Edwards. James K. = Stanford. Other 
 nard. sons.
 
 44 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 SMITH OF NEWAEK 
 
 ... Smith = Sister of Alderman Wilson. 
 
 John, Mayor = Anne Chambers. William, Mary = Henry Ann = Hatfield, 
 of N., 1760. I s.p. Walker of Lin- 
 _j coin. 
 
 T. of Line. , = Eliz. Bennett. K. of Kelham. Anne = S. Hay wood. 
 Mayor, 1811. | 
 
 Aysgough. 3 daus. 
 
 Thomas, ob. 1715, = Hannah, dau. of Wm. Rosamund, s.p. Cath. = Field. 
 | Wood. 
 
 I 1 I 
 Wm. of Newark = Sarah, dau. of John. Anne = Isaac Wylde. 
 Hardwick 
 Taylor. 
 
 Thomas. John. Wm. Mary = Wm. Eyres Cath. = Thos. Gilby of Bath, 
 
 of Bath. now of London, 1822. 
 
 (Familice Min. Gen.) 
 SMITH OF CAWOOD 
 
 William of C. = Ann, dau. of Thos. Hewley, aunt to 
 
 | Sir John H., M.P. for York. 
 James = Ashton. 
 
 Jonas = Ann, dau. of Nicholas Sager of York. 
 
 ! 
 
 Nich. of=Wilkins of Eliz. William, = ... Hall. Jas. of Cawood = Ann, dau. 
 
 Selby. 
 
 Cawood. Rectorof 
 
 Ryther. 
 
 Nicholas = Eleanor 
 Coupland. 
 
 Nichs. of London, Jas. Others. 
 Jas. Waterhouse Smith. apoth. 
 
 of Jas. 
 Torre of 
 Sydal. 
 
 Anne, b. 1716 = Stephen Buckle James, Nichs. of=Elizth., dau. of Rev. R. 
 
 of York, silver- b. 1720. Leeds, 
 smith. attorney. 
 
 Halsted, V. of Hutton 
 Paynell. 
 
 Nichs.ofGowerSt., W.C. = Frances, dau. of Sir Edmund Eliza. 
 Accnt. Genl. in Court of Anderson, Bart. , of Kildwick. 
 Chancery (1752-1819). 
 
 II I 
 
 James. Sarah = Nicholson of Cawood. Eliza = Stavely of York. Jane. 
 
 Eliza Stavely = E. Prest of York. Ann = Wm . Barff 
 | of Oarlton. 
 
 Edward Prest.
 
 THE HERALDS' VISITATIONS 
 
 45 
 
 (Familice Min. Gent.) 
 SMYTH 
 
 Samuel of Colkirk, Norf . = Urith, d. of Sir John Palgrave of 
 Barrister. Ob. 1664. Norwood. Ob. 1680. Bur. at 
 Oxwick. 
 
 Rebecca = Sir Samuel Smyth of Colkirk, = Oath. Eliz. d. of Sir James 
 
 Knt. Ob. 1699. Bur. Oxwick. 
 
 Harington of Ridlington, 
 Bart. Ob. 1680. Bur. at 
 Oxwick. 
 
 Lucy, 2nd dau. 
 = (1) JohnPett 
 of Colkirk ; (2) 
 Jonas Rolfe, 
 (Town-Clerk of 
 Lynn). 
 
 Urith, 3rd 
 dau. = 
 Offley. 
 
 1 
 Theodosia, 4th 
 dan. = (1) Sara 
 Sparrow of 
 Lavenham; is- 
 sue ; (2) Samuel 
 Freeman of 
 Beverley. s.p. 
 
 Catherine = 
 Smyth, 
 1678-1747 
 
 ^Thos. Bendyshe, 
 son of Thos. B. 
 of Gray's Inn, by 
 Bridget, d. of 
 Hen. Ireton. 
 (1671-1722.) 
 
 Ireton B. 
 
 Through Thomas Bendyshe this line possesses a descent from Oliver Crom- 
 well. Vide Noble's History of Oliver Cromwell.
 
 CHAPTER III 
 
 THE ELKINGTON LINE 
 
 IN presenting the following pedigrees I have to 
 avow my dependence, first, on certain published 
 family records, including not merely the familiar 
 pages of Burke, but also of such less known works 
 as e.g. Mr Augustus Smith's " Stemmata Ferraria," 
 and others of a similar type printed for the behoof 
 of particular families and compiled with great care 
 and large research ; and next, on MSS. supplied 
 by the kindness of correspondents, and in many 
 instances amplified in accordance with my sugges- 
 tions. Unfortunately there remain other MSS. 
 too fragmentary or inconsecutive to be available. 
 Among them I may mention especially the Smiths 
 of Credenhill, who until lately held lands which 
 had been theirs at the time of the Visitation. 
 Notwithstanding, although I searched the parish 
 registers, which afforded entries as far back as 
 1686, I could neither connect Joan, wife of Walter 
 Smith, buried in that year, with the Smyths of the 
 Visitation, nor with later Smyths of the parish. 
 Again, although Miss Morris of Lulham Court 
 courteously placed at my disposal certain documents 
 referring to the Smiths of Tarrington, who being 
 then of Holme Lacey were empowered by Royal 
 Licence, in 1825, to change their name to Edwards, 
 I have not succeeded in evolving a pedigree of the 
 family, who were for generations stewards to the 
 
 46
 
 THE ELKINGTON LINE 47 
 
 Foleys at Stoke Edith. I was equally at fault 
 with the Smiths of Beccles and of Buckenhill in 
 Woolhope, while I am conscious that the pedigree 
 of Smith of Buckton, in Leintwardine, is simply a 
 fragment of what might be a lengthened record, 
 and I have to confess to other failures notably as 
 regards the descent of that enterprising gentleman, 
 Alderman C. T. Smith of Chatham, High Constable 
 of Gillingham, a native of Wareham. As it is, 
 though only a compiler, and not a member of the 
 Herald's College, I have done Herald's work for 
 some Smiths in the way of research, but that was 
 outside my proper province, and I can only trust- 
 not without diffidence that the following pedigrees * 
 may be found approximately accurate, besides add- 
 ing to the general corpus of information concern- 
 ing the multitudinous Smith families. 
 
 SMYTH OF ELKINGTON, LINC., AND OF ANNABLES, 
 HERTS. 
 
 [Vide supra Visitations of Herts, 1612 ; Lincoln, 1562 ; and Surrey, 1623.] 
 
 Although we find a Smyth, or Le Smyth, M.P. 
 for Chard, as far back as 1320, he has not been 
 linked with the Exeter Smithes or with any other 
 line. The honour, therefore, of being the proto- 
 Smyth falls to the ancient line, mentioned in the 
 Visitation of 1433 as of Elkington, and represented 
 at Elkington Hall by the lineal descendant of that 
 ancestor. Very few houses can boast so prolonged 
 a tenure, and the association of the same blood 
 with the old acres, to the genealogist appears alike 
 honourable and interesting. True, the Elkington 
 estate passed temporarily in the female line to 
 Lord Glastonbury, to be restored, however, to its 
 legitimate owners under the will of that conscientious 
 
 * The pedigrees have been printed neither in chronological nor in alpha- 
 betical sequence. This, unavoidably, owing to some having been completed 
 while the sheets have passed through the press. The reader, however, will 
 be able to discover any particular line without difficulty.
 
 48 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 nobleman. The divorce of an ancient name from its 
 hereditary acres is at least as painful and unnatural 
 as that which annuls the sacred tie of wedlock, and 
 reduces the offspring to the level of orphans. 
 
 Like the coat of the vast majority of mediaeval 
 families, that of the Elkington Smyths excels in a 
 dignified simplicity viz. per bend indented or and 
 az., two crosses moline counterchanged : with for 
 crest, on a ducal coronet or a falcon with wings 
 expanded, proper. 
 
 From Sir Ralph De Ottely, living 30 Ed. I, 
 descended Isabella, who by Robert De Willerby 
 had a daughter, Joan, who married Smyth, styled 
 of Acthorpe, the mother parish of Elkington. This 
 Smyth apparently had two brothers, John, desig- 
 nated in contemporary deeds Le Faber, and 
 Andrew, whose son John was a priest. By Joan 
 Willerby, who was living in 1421, he had a son 
 John of Acthorpe, or Elkington, probably the John 
 of the Visitation of 1433. His son William died 
 in 1467, leaving a numerous issue, of whom the 
 second son, Thomas of South Elkington, had a son 
 George, and a grandson James ; while the fourth 
 son, William of Parkthorpe, had (1) William of 
 Hammerton, whose line ended in Christopher,* 
 living in 1631 ; and (2) Robert of Waltham, living 
 in 1530, who by Eleanor Lilbourn of Fenby, had, 
 with others, Christopher, Clerk of the Pipe, who 
 married Margaret, daughter of John Hide, or Hyde, 
 of Albury, Herts, and assigned the estate of 
 Annables to his son Thomas on his marriage with 
 Joane Collett, who re-married Sir John Luke. Of 
 the issue of his second son Nicholas we will treat 
 presently. By Joane Collett, Thomas Smyth had 
 
 * I accept this from the printed pedigree of Smyth of Elkington ; other- 
 wise the Visitation of Surrey, 1623 Smyth of Peperharow would lead to 
 an opposite conclusion.
 
 THE ELKINGTON LINE 49 
 
 Sir George, who purchased the manorial rights of 
 Annables. He succeeded his father as Clerk of 
 the Pipe, and married Judith, daughter of Sir 
 Rowland Lytton of Knebworth, and niece of Helen 
 Lytton, wife of Sir John Brocket, whose fifth 
 daughter, Mary, married Sir Thomas Reade, jure 
 uxoris, of Brocket Hall. Neither of the sons of Sir 
 George Smyth by Judith Lytton viz. Rowland 
 (died 1639), and George, left issue, and this branch 
 thus terminating, the Line, and Herts estates 
 devolved on Edmund, son of Nicholas afore- 
 mentioned. 
 
 This Nicholas, described as of Westminster, 
 married Katherine Gardiner of Southwark, and by 
 her had Edmund, as above stated, who married 
 Grace, daughter of John Percival of Kingsale. He 
 died in 1684, leaving a numerous issue ; of these 
 the Rev. William, of whom anon, transmitted the 
 old blood, but his elder brother, James, who in- 
 herited the Elkington estates, by Anne Jenkins 
 of Harpenden had a daughter, Mary, who married 
 the Hon. James Grenville, uncle to George, first 
 Marquess of Buckingham. Their son, who was 
 raised to the peerage as Baron Glastonbury, dying 
 s.p., bequeathed the Elkington property to his 
 maternal cousin, the Rev. William, great-grandson 
 of the above mentioned Rev. William, son of 
 Nicholas of Westminster. This younger Rev. 
 William, vicar of South Elkington, by Mary, 
 daughter of Samuel Ray of Tannington, Suffolk, 
 had (1) William Henry Smyth, Esq., of Elkington 
 Hall, b. March 21, 1821 ; married, April 19, 1849, 
 Sarah Anna, daughter of Rev. John Sergeant, 
 Rector of Stanwick, and has issue, (a) William 
 Grenville, J.P. for Lincoln, b. October 6, 1857, 
 (b) George Edmund, b. June 28, 1859, (c) Charles 
 Glastonbury, b. September 7, 1862. Mr W. H. 
 D
 
 50 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 Smyth is J.P. and D.L. for Lincolnshire, of which 
 he served as High Sheriff in 1882, also J.P. for 
 York, and High Steward of Louth. 
 
 The second son is Colonel Edmund Smyth of The 
 Grange, Welwyn, who is Lord of the Manor of 
 Annables ; b. Dec., 1823, J.P. for Herts, married at 
 Almora, N.W.P., 1866, Frances Maria, daughter of 
 Dr John Gardner. 
 
 The third son, James Grenville Smyth of S. 
 Elkington, b. June 1, 1825 ; married July 14, 
 1858, Emily Royds of Brereton, who died Nov. 
 23, 1859. 
 
 The fourth son, Christopher of Woodford, 
 Northants, b. Jan. 17, 1827 ; married at Rochdale 
 July 7, 1857, Clementine, daughter of Clement Royds 
 of Fallinge. 
 
 Of the daughters, Emily Jane, b. Oct. 7, 1822, 
 married at S. Elkington, Sept. 7, 1852, The Right 
 Hon. Stephen Cave, F.S.A., M.P., sometime President 
 of the Board of Trade ; Frances, was born May 26, 
 1828 ; and Ellen Mary, b. Sept. 16, 1829, married, 
 April 25, 1861, Edw. Wrey Whinfield of Severn 
 Grange, Worcester. Mr and Mrs Smyth of Elking- 
 ton celebrated their golden wedding in 1899. 
 
 As may be expected in a family of so great 
 antiquity, Elkington possesses a large collection of 
 ancient deeds, including one bearing the date 1284. 
 For the sake of safety, it might be well if such 
 priceless treasures were to be fac-similed, and the 
 originals deposited in the Bodleian or British 
 Museum, the former for preference, because of the 
 rigid rule prohibiting lights of any kind within the 
 four corners of the building. The author is able 
 to cite an instance where this precaution has been 
 taken, and very much to the satisfaction of all 
 concerned. 
 
 Historically, the Elkington Smyths have but a
 
 THE ELKINGTON LINE 51 
 
 minor record. A William Smyth of Louth, pre- 
 sumably of this line, was executed in 1536 for 
 complicity in the Lincolnshire rising against the 
 new learning. He joined the vicar of Louth and 
 the Roman Catholic gentry, sharing their fate. 
 With him was another William Smyth of 
 Donington, about six miles from Elkington, and a 
 John Smythe. 
 
 Sir George Smyth, the Clerk of the Pipe, must 
 have been a man of mark, and probably unlike his 
 Lincolnshire relatives a Protestant, for his con- 
 nections, the Lyttons of that era, were strongly 
 Puritanical, while Sir John Brocket showed much 
 sympathy for the Princess, afterwards Queen, 
 Elizabeth during her confinement at Ashridge as 
 her sister's prisoner, and she was actually his and 
 his wife's (Helen Lytton's) guest at Brocket Hall 
 when the Lord Mayor came in state to carry her 
 to Westminster for her coronation. It may be 
 noted that Judith Lytton, after Sir George's death, 
 married, as her second husband, Sir Thomas 
 Barrington* of Hatfield Broadoak, Essex; and that 
 one of Sir George's aunts married Chief-Justice 
 Anderson, another Sir John Fortescue, Master 
 of the Great Wardrobe, and a third one of the 
 Raleighs. These alliances will give a fair indication 
 of the high social position assumed by the Smyths 
 of Annables throughout the Elizabethan period ; 
 and it may be added that during the past three 
 centuries the family has been even more closely 
 associated with Herts than with their more atavistic 
 home at Elkington, to which, however, they have 
 reverted, having built for themselves a new Elking- 
 ton Hall. Stetfortuna domus ! 
 
 The family boasts one royal descent, which may 
 be formulated as follows : 
 
 * The Barrington family were related to the Brockets.
 
 52 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 Edward I. = Eleanor of Castile. 
 
 Joan of Acre = (l) Gilbert De Clare, E. of Gloucester and Herts. 
 Elizabeth De Clare = (3) Roger, Lord D'Amory. 
 
 Elizabeth D'Amory = John, Lord Bardolph (1313-63). 
 
 William, Lord Bardolph = Agnes, dau. of Michael, Lord Poynings. 
 (1350-86) 
 
 Cecilia Bardolph = Sir Brian Stapylton. 
 
 Sir Miles Stapylton = Katherine, dau. of Sir Thos. De La Pole. 
 Elizabeth Stapylton = Sir William Calthorpe (1410-94). 
 
 Anne Calthorpe Sir Robert Drury, Speaker of the 
 
 | House of Commons. 
 
 Elizabeth Drury = Sir Philip Boteler. 
 
 Sir John Boteler = Grizel, dau. of Lord Mayor Sir W. Roche. 
 
 Sir Henry Boteler = Catherine, great-aunt of Edmund Waller, the poet. 
 Elizabeth Boteler = Sir Anthony Chester, Bart. 
 
 Sir Anthony Chester, 2nd Bart. = Elizabeth, dau. of Sir John Peyton. 
 Sir Anthony Chester, 3rd Bart. = Mary Cranmer. 
 
 Diana Chester (1660-95) = Rev. Thos. Remington, V. of Easton Maudit. 
 Barbara Remington = Rev. J. Shann, V. of Chicheley. 
 
 Dorothea Shann = Rev. E. Smyth, V. of Gt. Linford. 
 Rev. W. Smyth = Susanna Ray. 
 
 Rev. W. Smyth = Mary Ray. 
 
 William H. Smyth of Elkington Hall = Sarah, dau. of Rev. J. Sargeant, 
 
 R. of Stanwick. 
 
 William Grenville Smyth (b. 1857)= Anna Lily, dau. of Cosmo W. Gordon. 
 William H. Gordon Smyth (b. 1893).
 
 CHAPTER IV 
 
 THE WEST COUNTRY SMITHS THE SMITH-MARRIOTTS, 
 
 BARONETS 
 
 [See Visitations of Devon, 1620, and Dorset, 1623 ; also "Familise 
 Min. Gentium."] 
 
 JOHN LE SMYTHE was Member for Chard in 1327, 
 and probably the first of his name in England to 
 acquire social distinction, albeit we find the name 
 Faber among early lists of Knights, but in connection 
 with the North and Midlands rather than with the 
 West. Of his blood is assumed to be Robert, Mayor 
 of Exeter in 1469, who had the honour of entertain- 
 ing King Edward IV. during his year of office. 
 Between 1469 and 1553, when William Smith was 
 Mayor, there are no traceable family links, but 
 inasmuch as they were woolstaplers in the chief 
 towns of Devonshire and Dorset, from whose ports 
 the wool was shipped to Flanders, the probabilities 
 are in favour of the Smiths holding a commanding 
 position in the trade. The Flemish merchants in the 
 later middle ages were paying such large prices for 
 English wool, that men of the highest social status, 
 such as the Dormers and Grevilles, embarked in that 
 trade. At all events we note about the Reformation 
 period that the Smiths of the West, while retaining 
 their connection with Exeter, had already advanced 
 from being mere yeomen to become large and in- 
 fluential landowners. Wool indisputably was the 
 source from whence their wealth accumulated, and 
 it is affirmed that already they had begun to manu- 
 facture cloth on their own account. This may be ; 
 but a profitable and extensive export trade was the 
 53
 
 54 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 making of the West, and incidentally of its notable 
 manufacturers, the Smiths. 
 
 Robert Smith, the Mayor of Exeter, had the honour 
 of entertaining Edward IV. with his consort ; and 
 Isacke, in his " History of Exeter," states that in 
 return for his hospitality the King presented a sword 
 to be borne ever after before the Mayor and his 
 successors. Inasmuch as the little western city had 
 propitiated His Majesty with a, douceur of 100 nobles, 
 the royal favour represented no more than so much 
 discount off, but the Devonians must have felt 
 flattered, for they further presented the Queen and 
 Prince with 20 apiece in gold. The Mayor, 
 however, was not accorded the honour of the 
 accolade, which his largesse and liberality would 
 seem to have honestly earned. Autres temps, autres 
 mceurs ! 
 
 In his pedigree of the family Mr Arthur M. Smith, 
 whose researches deserve high praise albeit he 
 elects to be severe on the human fallibility of the 
 Heralds makes Robert the Mayor prime ancestor. 
 But although thus formulating his pedigree, in the 
 text of his work he states that the link (query, 
 links ?) between Robert the Mayor in 1469 and 
 William, Mayor in 1553, is wanting in other words, 
 two generations rest upon the basis of hypothesis, 
 a very dangerous foundation in any case, doubly so 
 in that of a family bearing a name so widely diffused 
 as that of Smith. 
 
 This line boasts a royal descent, which, like most 
 others, teste Mr Foster, is a trifle circuitous e.g. 
 through the families of Monthermer, Montague, 
 Bevin, and Muttleberie. Other royal descents or 
 connections might probably be traced as satis- 
 factorily. The following appears to have been com- 
 piled by, or for, Sir Nicholas Smithe of Larkbear, 
 circa 1624, possibly as the result of the Heralds'
 
 THE WEST COUNTRY SMITHS 55 
 
 Visitation of Devon. I may add that " Muttleberie " 
 is the local phonetic of " Myrtleberry " a form of 
 nomenclature as prettily poetic as "Muttleberie" is 
 the reverse. 
 
 Edward I. = Eleanor of Castile. 
 
 Joan Plantagenet = (2) Ralph de Monthermer. 
 
 I 
 Thomas, Lord Monthermer = . . . 
 
 I 
 Margaret Monthermer = Sir John Montague. 
 
 Robert Montague = . . . 
 
 John Montague = Agnes More. 
 
 I 
 William Montague = . . . 
 
 William Montague = . . . Peverell. 
 
 Elianor Montague = John Bevin. 
 
 Katherine Bevin = Alexander Muttleberie. 
 
 I 
 Alice Muttleberie = John Smithe. 
 
 Sir George Smithe. 
 (Father of Sir Nicholas Smithe.) 
 
 Of the above, Sir John Montague, who died 12 
 Rich. II., was son of William Montague, Earl of 
 Salisbury. Robert was the second son, and John 
 Montague, the elder, succeeded his uncle as Earl 
 of Salisbury. Their son Thomas, Earl of Salisbury, 
 married Elianna, daughter of Thomas Holland, Earl 
 of Kent, and their daughter and heiress married 
 Richard Nevill, who became, jure uxoris, Earl of 
 Salisbury, an arrangement which would not now be 
 sanctioned without a fresh patent. 
 
 For the early items in the pedigree which com- 
 mences with Smith of Borage, the reader is referred 
 to the Visitation of Devon 1623. Here, however, we 
 find a crux in limine, for Mr A. M. Smith denies that 
 John Smith, from whom the descent starts, was 
 of Borage, but styles him of Holdich in Thorncomb,
 
 56 
 
 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 albeit his son Thomas was of Borage or Burridge. 
 This detail is verified by the said John's will, and 
 fortunately does not affect the pedigree itself : where- 
 of the earlier portion stands thus : 
 
 John Smithe = 
 or Smythe 
 
 - Alice Muttleberie. Richard. 
 
 1 
 William, Mayor 
 of Exeter. 
 
 : Grace Viell (de- 
 scended from Anne, 
 dau. of the Earl of 
 Wilts and Or- 
 monde), dau. of 
 William Viell by 
 Jane Arundell of 
 Trevise. 
 
 1 
 (1) John Smith of Yar- Jane, dau. 
 combe (queried) ? of James 
 (2) Robert. Walker. 
 (3) Nicholas. 
 (4) Thomas. 
 (6) Thomas. 
 (7) Aron. 
 
 = (5) Sir George, - 
 Mayor of Exe- 
 ter, Sheriff of 
 Devon, 1615. 
 
 Grace = Sir Bevill Gren- 
 
 ville, the Cavalier. 
 (Whence the Earls and 
 Marquesses of Bath, etc. ) 
 
 Sir Nicholas of = 
 Larkbeare 
 
 = Dorothy Horsey. 
 
 Elizabeth = Sir Thomas Jane = Richard 
 Monck, whence General Henning, 
 Monck, D. of Albe- whence the 
 marie. Trenchards. 
 
 Nicholas = 
 Gee 
 
 8. p. O 
 
 = Hon. John= George, 
 Rose (ances- ob. 
 Lam- tor of 1642. 
 bart. the 
 Land- 
 graves of 
 Carolina). 
 
 rge, 
 D. 1631, 
 
 1 1 I 
 Edw. Ralphe, Right Hon. = Am 
 ob. ob. Sir James wic 
 1639, 1635, (ob. 1681), of^ 
 s.p. s.p. s.p. Boe 
 
 1 
 IB, 2daus. 
 ow 
 7m. 
 vey. 
 
 Mary Boevey = Sir Francis Courtenay, who 
 thus succeeded to Sir George 
 Smithe's vast estates in 
 Devon. 
 
 Robert, the second son of John by Alice Muttleberie 
 (ob. 1590), had Aron of Crediton (ob. 1631). Nicholas 
 of Holditch, the third son (ob. 1597), had George, who 
 by Margerie ... had (1) William of Ilminster, (2) Ed- 
 ward of Chard, (3) George of Ilchester (ob. 1651), (4) 
 John of Taunton, (5) Rev. Richard of Whitstanton. 
 
 Of these (1) William of Ilminster, by his wife 
 Elizabeth, had (1) John of Forton, clothier (ob. 1667), 
 who had five sons and four daughters, of whom Aron,
 
 THE WEST COUNTRY SMITHS 57 
 
 bapt. 1653, may have been the Aron Smith who was 
 Solicitor to the Treasury, (2) Robert of Ilminster, of 
 whose issue we treat at length below, and with two 
 daughters, three other sons. 
 
 Thomas, fourth son of John Smithe by Olive Muttle- 
 berie, is described as of South Chard. By Alice 
 Atkins he had Richard Burridge of Crimchard, 
 who by Agnes Cogan had, with others, Richard of 
 S. Chard (ob. 1680), whose son Richard was executed 
 by Judge Jeffreys, while William, another son, had 
 a numerous issue. 
 
 Aron, the youngest son of John Smithe and Alice 
 aforesaid (ob. 1629), by his wife Judith, had John 
 of Combe, and Nicholas, whose grandson Aron may 
 also have been the Aron, Solicitor to the Treasury 
 (vide supra). Of his other progeny nothing is known. 
 
 I pause here to remark that in the extensive 
 pedigrees, compiled with remarkable diligence by 
 Mr A. M. Smith and Rev. E. F. N. Smith, occur 
 numerous names culled from parish registers, but 
 of no personal value. For the sake of condensation 
 I omit these nomina inutilia, referring the reader to 
 the above able works. The ancestor-hunter indeed, 
 so far as the Smith families are concerned, will find 
 himself overwhelmed by an embarras de richesses; 
 it seems desirable, therefore, to focus the eye as 
 far as possible on the main threads. To the lucidus 
 ordo of Mr A. M. Smith, I avow myself especially 
 indebted. He has tabulated separately each principal 
 descent in felicitous contrast to the method of Mr 
 Augustus Smith whose tree, formulated on 12 sheets, 
 each 2 feet long by 1 deep, necessitates a table or 
 trestle of 24 feet in longitude for the hapless student. 
 Divide et impera is an excellent rule for the tree- builder. 
 
 We now come to the descendants of Robert Smith 
 of Ilminster, second son of William of Ilminster, by 
 his wife Elizabeth. They had issue (A) Captain
 
 58 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 Edmond Smith, RN., born 1619, (B) George of 
 Moolham, ancestor of the Smith Marriots vide 
 infra, (c) Another son and two daughters. 
 
 (A.) Captain Edmond, by his wife Eleanor (ob. 1695) 
 had (1) Robert, (2) William (born 1652), (3) Edmund, 
 born 1658, of whom presently, (4) Captain James of 
 Poplar. 
 
 Robert of Rotherhithe, living 1712, by Joyce had 
 (1) Robert of Barking (1658-1747) = Susannah Shippy, 
 and had issue. (2) Charles of Waddon (1690-1761), 
 who by Rebecca, daughter of Captain Marriner, 
 had (1) Charles of Stratford (1713-77), who by 
 Judith, daughter of Isaac Lefevre of Stepney, 
 had Charles of Suttons (1757-1814), M.P. for West- 
 bury and Saltash, who married Augusta, daughter 
 and co-heir of Joshua Smith of Erlestoke, Wilts, 
 niece of Sir Drummond Smith, first Bart., and by her 
 had (1) Sir Charles Joshua Smith, second Bart, of 
 Suttons (ob. 1831), who by Mary, daughter of William 
 Gosling, Esq. of Rockhampton, had Sir Charles C. 
 Smith (b. 1827), who married Agnes F. Cure, 
 and by her had Drummond Cunliffe, Reginald 
 Cunliffe = Maud Gosling, Frederica M., and Rev. 
 C.B.H. ; (2) Spencer Smith of Brooklands, who 
 by Frances, daughter of Sir Michael Seymour, Bart., 
 had Captain T. S. Smith, R.N., (ob. s.p., 1893); 
 Rev. Spencer C. S. (b. 1842) = Mary B. Hamilton, 
 and has issue; Rev. Orlando S., Langford Lodge, 
 Sarisbury (b. 1843) = Theodosia, daughter of Sir 
 R. England; Captain Gilbert S. (b. 1843) = Edith C., 
 daughter of A. Pelham, Esq. ; and 4 daughters ; (3) 
 Drummond, s.p. ; (4) Frederick = Augusta Wilder ; 
 (5) Emma = Rev. Austen Leigh; (6) Frances = Rev. 
 R. Seymour ; (7) Eliza = Sir D. Le Marchant, Bart. ; 
 (8) Maria = Sir John Seymour. 
 
 The second son of Charles of Waddon, by Rebecca 
 Marriner, was William of Camer, Kent (1719-64).
 
 59 
 
 He married Katherine, daughter and heiress of 
 George Masters, Esq., Squire of Gamer, and by 
 her had (1) George of Gamer (1757-1831) = Rebecca, 
 daughter of Nicholas Brett, and by her had (1) 
 William Masters Smith of Gamer, M.P. (1802-61) = 
 Frances, daughter of Sir Howard Elphinstone, Bart. ; 
 (2) William Cowburn (d. 1854) who was succeeded 
 at Gamer by Rev. A. Smith Masters (1820-75), who 
 by R. M., daughter of Archdeacon Randall, had 
 Rev. J. E. Smith Masters = Eliza M., daughter of S. 
 Melville ; (3) Edward Twopeny = Elizabeth .... The 
 younger brother of Mr George Smith of Gamer was 
 William Smith of Fairy Hall (1760-1830) = Catherine, 
 daughter of John Manby, Esq. of Holbrook, and by her 
 had(l)Edward F.,Q.C., Bencher of the Middle Temple, 
 ob. s.p. 1877 ; (2) Charles Manby, b. 1819, Master 
 of the Q.B., and afterwards Judge of the Supreme 
 Court = Georgina F., daughter of Governor Ibbetson, 
 and had issue : Reginald M. of Bifrons ; Arthur 
 Mortan (author of the Smiths of Exeter) ; Ernest 
 Manby ; Bertram Robert ; Gertrude M. ; William 
 W. = Florence Elvira, and had issue : Amy Georgina ; 
 Walter M. G. = Katherine Maud, and has issue. 
 
 We now come to Edmund Smith, Consul at Teneriff'e, 
 who is said to have been buried at Christ Church, 
 Newgate, in 1705. By his wife Isabel he had a son 
 Ralph, who, dying in 1748, left with other issue Robert 
 (1741-1810), who by Martha Davis had, with other 
 issue (a) Robert of Carey's, Brockenhurst (1769- 
 1849), who by Ann Bowden had a very numerous 
 issue: (I) Nathaniel Bowden Smith (1797-1886) = 
 Emily M. Ripley, and had, by her with others, Philip 
 Bowden (1828-95), who by Emily Robertson had a 
 large family; Nathaniel Bowden (b. 1838) = Emily 
 Cecilia Sandeman, and by her had three daughters ; 
 and Rev. Frederic H. Bowden (b. 1841) = Harriet 
 Hardis, and has six children. (2) Richard Bowden
 
 60 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 (1800-81) = Georgina E., daughter of Walter Long, 
 Esq., and had issue, Walter B. B. of Vernalls (b. 
 1850) = Julia Humphreys. (/3) Henry Bates Smith 
 (1776- 1834) = Martha Ferris, and by her had, with 
 others, Henry Goodenough (1814-78) = Jane Cooper, 
 and by her had, with others, Rev. H. R. Cooper 
 Smith (b. 1851). 
 
 We must now, following the order of what 
 Aristotle terms priority and posteriority, revert to 
 (R) George Smith of Moolham, W. Dowlish (1624- 
 1700). His son John (1659-1729) by his wife Mary 
 (1653-1729) had, with others, George (d. 1730), who, 
 by Elizabeth his wife, had Henry of New Windsor, 
 (1714-68), who by Mary Hill (d. 1757) had, with 
 others, including Rev. Doctor Edmund, Rector of 
 Godmanston and Fellow of Magd. Coll., Camb. (1747- 
 1814), Sir George Smith, first Bart, of Sydling (1744- 
 1807). He was F.R.S. and Sheriff of Dorset, 1773. 
 By his first wife, Elizabeth Carter of Wilsthorpe, he 
 had, with others, including Amelia = Hon. R. Quin, son 
 of the Earl of Dunraven, Sir John Wyldbore Smith, 
 second Bart., Sheriff of Dorset, 1814 (1770-1852). He 
 married Elizabeth A., daughter of Rev. Dr Marriott 
 of Horsmonden (1770-1847), and by her had (1) Sir 
 John James Smith, third Bart, of Sydling (1800-62) 
 = Frances Penney of Somerton Erleigh, and died 
 s.p. ; (2) Rev. Sir William M. Smith-Marriott, Rector 
 of Horsmonden, who assumed the name of Marriott 
 (1801-64). By his first wife Julia E., daughter of T. 
 L. Hodges, M.P., he had Sir William Smith Marriott, 
 fifth Bart., Sheriff of Dorset, 1876 = Elizabeth D., 
 daughter of Hon. R. Cavendish, son of Lord Water- 
 park, and by her had with others his heir, William 
 J. Smith Marriott (b. 1870); John Bosworth, 4th 
 Dragoon Guards (b. 1837) = Julia F, daughter of C. 
 J. Redclyffe (issue, William (b. 1865) = C. M. Austen; 
 Charles E. ; Rev. W. N. P. = Hilda) ; Hugh Forbes, R.
 
 THE WEST COUNTRY SMITHS 61 
 
 of Horsmonden = Frances, daughter of Admiral Hon. 
 J. G. Cavendish (issue, Hugh R. C. ; George R. W. ; 
 Frances J. E. ). Rev. Horace Meeres = Charlotte 
 L. Peareth issue ; and two daughters. (3) Henry 
 
 C. Smith (1806-34), R. of Rushton, s.p. (4) Reginald 
 Southwell (1809-95) = Emily G., daughter of H. H. 
 Simpson of Bath (issue, with others, Reginald Bos- 
 worth, Fellow of Trin. Coll., Oxford, author of a 
 Life of Lord Laurence, etc. = Flora, dau. of Rev. E. 
 
 D. Wickham, and had issue ; Walter W. Marriott, 
 R.A. = Alice Ley of Trehill, and had issue; Rev. E. 
 Floyer Noel, M.A., Vicar of St Mary, Tottenham ; 
 Caledon E., Colonel of the Dorset Regiment ; others. 
 (5) Rev. Francis R. of Rushton (1816-51) = Mary 
 Bogue, and had issue, with others, Rev. Francis A., 
 R. of Rushton. (6) Major Edward Heathcote (1813- 
 69) = Christina, daughter of Edward Mackintosh, 
 Esq., of Geddes, and had issue. (7) Ann Eliza (1803- 
 59) = Rev. John D. Wingfield Digby, nephew of 
 Earl Digby, and left issue. 
 
 It may be added that Susanna, sister of the first 
 Bart., had by Captain Bechinoe, R.N., a daughter 
 Mary, who married (1) the fourth Duke of Roxburgh, 
 (2) the Hon. John Tollemache, son of the E. of 
 Dysart, but had issue by neither husband. Also 
 that the Rev. E. Floyer Noel Smith of Trinity Coll., 
 Oxford, is author of " The Pedigree of Smith " a 
 work of considerable research, to which I avow my- 
 self indebted. He gives the following Marriott tree : 
 
 Hugh Marriott of Spelmonden = Lydia, grand-dau. of Sir 
 
 (d. 1753). 
 
 Vivian Pearson. 
 
 Rev. J. Marriott, LL. D. = Catharine, dau. of Sir John Bosworth. 
 (b. 1743). 
 
 Elizabeth = Sir J. Wyldbore Smith, Bart. 
 
 AKMS of Sir George Smith, Smyth, or Smithe, 1615 : Sa. a fesse and 2 
 barruletf between S martlets or.
 
 62 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 We now revert to Robert Smith of Ilminster, who 
 died in 1656. By his second wife, Elizabeth, he had 
 (1) Robert of Ilminster (1629-95), who by Elizabeth... 
 had Robert of Bishopshull (1659-1714) = Elizabeth, 
 daughter of John Lucas of Sherborne, widow of 
 John Bindon, issue, three daughters ; Thomas of 
 Ilminster, (ob. s.p. 1727) ; William of the Tower of 
 London (ob. 1737), who by Mary Sawtell, had, with 
 others, Edmund of London (1707-79), who by Eliza- 
 beth Blunkett, had William Smithe of Horsham 
 Park (ob. 1788) = Sarah, daughter of Simon Forster 
 of Aldermaston, and by her had Edmund of Horsham 
 Park (1772-1 845) = Mary, daughter of Peter Du 
 Cane, Esq., of Braxted, and had Rev. Percy (1804- 
 76), who by Mary, daughter of Rev. L. Kenrick 
 had Rev. W. H. G. Vicar of Horton, Northants ; 
 Frederick (1806-69) = Isabella O., daughter of Rev. 
 Dr James, Preb. of Worcester, and had Percy S. G. 
 of Shermanbury ; William Forster of Staplefield Place 
 (1813-68) = Lilla R., daughter of A. S. Greene, Esq. 
 of Lewes, and had Edmund Du Cane (b. 1853), Forest 
 Service of India ; Arthur D'Orville ; Percy B. ; Bel- 
 ville G. ; Alexander K. G. = Amy Redcroft ; Lilla L. ; 
 Joseph Godman of Park Hatch, Surrey = Caroline . . . 
 
 The second son of Robert of Ilminster was William, 
 Mayor of Lyme Regis (1631-77). By Dorothy Cars- 
 well he had, with others, Robert of Langham (ob. 
 1791), who = (1) Rebecca Tirrell, and by her had 
 John Smith of Honiton. He married (2) Mary 
 Woolmington, and by her had Alderman Sir William 
 Smith, Sheriff of Middlesex and Dorset (ob. 1752), 
 who, by Elizabeth ..., had a daughter, Susanna 
 (ob. s.p. 1742). The third son of Robert of Ilminster 
 was Thomas of Exeter (1634-1709), who, by Anne, 
 had Thomas, Eleanor (ob. 1713), and Margaret = 
 Richard Knight of Deal, nephew of Morgan Lodge 
 of Eastry, and left issue.
 
 THE WEST COUNTRY SMITHS 63 
 
 For the voluminous pedigree of the American 
 Smiths, descending from John Smith of Exeter (b. 
 1611), I must refer the reader to the valuable work 
 of Mr A. M. Smith, entituled, " Some Account of the 
 Smiths of Exeter. By One of them." He has added 
 the pedigree of the Ashstead Smiths, who claim de- 
 scent from Sir Nicholas of Larkbeare (vide supra), 
 but whose first verified ancestor is Captain John 
 Smith, buried at St Mary Magdalene, Bermondsey, 
 1714. Of his issue, Captain Nathaniel (ob. 1730) of 
 St Giles, Cripplegate, by Ann, daughter of James 
 Gould, had Nathaniel of Ashstead, a posthumous 
 son (ob. 1794). He was M.P. for Rochester and 
 Chairman of the E.I.C. By Hester, daughter of 
 George Dance, City Architect, and sister of George 
 Dance, R.A., he had, with others, George, Chief- 
 Justice of the Mauritius = Sarah, daughter of J. 
 Hardman, Esq., of Manchester, and by her had (1) 
 Nathaniel of Ashstead = Eliza, daughter of General 
 Auchmuty ; (2) Felix Vaughan (ob. 1876) = Charlotte, 
 heiress of Sir Hugh Massey, Bart., and by her had 
 Frances M. ; Watkin Wingfield (ob. 1886) ; (3) 
 Edmund Loman = Hester ... ; (4) Sarah = Robert, 
 Lord Abinger. Their daughter Frances = Rev. S. 
 Lidderdale Smith, Canon of Hereford, and has 
 issue. 
 
 Mr A. M. Smith further appends the pedigree of 
 Smith of Cawood, who may, like the Ashstead 
 Smiths, descend from Sir Nicholas of Larkbeare 
 in any case this tree is of interest, inasmuch as it 
 includes among its scions that gallant General, Sir 
 Harry Smith, of whom more particularly among 
 Celebrities of the name. 
 
 At the close of the seventeenth century we find the 
 names of James and Richard Smith of Cawood, the 
 latter apparently being the senior, possibly father or 
 uncle of the former. We will treat them separately.
 
 64 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 First, James (ob. 1692, set. 54). By his wife 
 Martha he had, with others, Jonah, whose son James 
 (1695-1755) by Anne Torre had Nicholas of Cawood 
 (ob. 1 794) = Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. R Halstead, 
 and by her had Nicholas, of the Middle Temple, 
 Accountant- General of the Court of Chancery (buried 
 at Stanmore, 1819) = Elizabeth D. F, daughter of Sir 
 Edmund Anderson, Bart. 
 
 Richard Smith of Cawood had Ashton (ob. 1689, 
 get. 22), and a second son. [His cousin, Rev. W. J. 
 Smith of Cawood had a son, Peter of Ely (ob. 1796).] 
 The above second son left John of Worboys, who, by 
 Martha, daughter of John Wakelyn of Whittlesey, 
 had Wakelyn (ob. 1759), who = his first cousin, 
 Susanna (ob. 1804), and by her had John, surgeon, of 
 Whittlesey (1756-1843) = Eleanor, daughter of Rev. 
 Minor Canon Moore of Peterborough. Their issue 
 was numerous^. (1) William G. (1790-1830) = 
 Sophia Fothergill, and by her had George (ob. 1877) 
 = Elizabeth Brewster ; (2) John S. (1792-1819) = 
 Anne Maydwell, and had John S. = Mary Wells ; 
 (3) William F. ; (4) Sir Harry G. W., of Aliwal, 
 Bart., G.C.B. (ob. 1860) = Juana Maria De Los 
 Dolores De Leon, s.p. ; (5) Colonel Thomas Laurence, 
 C.B. = (1) Catherine Maydwell, and by her had Harry, 
 who assumed his mother's name, and was father of 
 Colonel R. L. W. M. Maydwell ; Colonel Hugh, s.p. ; 
 Captain R. L., of Thames Ditton = his cousin Alice; 
 Colonel T. L. Smith ; = (2) Elizabeth Morris, and by 
 her had Alice = Captain R. L. (vide supra) ; Harriet 
 (ob. 1866), author of a Memoir entituled " Home- 
 wards"; Colonel Wellesley, K.C.B. ; and Charles, 
 R.N. (ob. s.p.) ; (6) Samuel, surgeon, of Whittlesey, 
 whose son, Henry Terry Smith of Northampton = 
 Louisa . . . ; (7) Daniel S. = Jane Alice . . . ; (8) George 
 Hardy of St Ives = Elizabeth ...; (9) Charles, J.P., 
 D.L., of Whittlesey (ob. 1854), by Mary, daughter of
 
 THE WEST COUNTRY SMITHS 65 
 
 Abraham Smith, Esq. of Eastrea Hall, Cambridge- 
 shire, had Anne Agnes (ob. 1885) = Staff-Surgeon 
 Ford; John A. =Jennetta H., daughter of W. M. 
 Ford, and by her had, with others, Arthur Ford 
 (ob. 1895, s.p.), B.A., Cambridge ; George Moore (ob. 
 1870), solicitor, of Whittlesey = Elizabeth, daughter of 
 Rev. J. C. Franks (and had issue, with others, George 
 M., M.A., Cambridge; Harry Wakelyn, M.A., Cam- 
 bridge; Wilfrid H. M., Lieut. RM.L.L); Captain 
 Harry (ob. 1857) = Mary Lambarde, and had 
 Harry St Lawrence, Eastern Telegraphs Company. 
 
 K
 
 CHAPTER V 
 
 THE CARRINGTONS AND CARINGTONS EARL CAR- 
 RINGTON LORD PAUNCEFOTE SMYTHES, BARTS. 
 BROMLEYS, BARTS., ETC. 
 
 [Tide Visitations of Essex, 1612, 1634; Norfolk, 1612; and Warwick, 1619.] 
 
 STARTING from the Horatian maxim, "fortes creantur 
 fortibus et bonis," the late Mr Augustus Smith, M.P., 
 of Tresco, set to work, and in masterly fashion, to 
 demonstrate that the Smiths of Cropwell Boteler 
 were not descended from the Cavalier Smyths, als 
 Carington, but from a humble yeoman who could 
 not so much as sign his name. So far so good. 
 Unfortunately, this gentleman being an alumnus of 
 the Manchester school, imported into his otherwise 
 admirable tractate a quantity of .fustian concerning 
 civil and religious liberty, assuming as self-evident 
 that the Cavalier nobleman was the enemy, and the 
 illiterate yeoman's son the enlightened friend, of these 
 priceless boons. Had he not perused English his- 
 tory through the prejudiced medium of Manchester 
 doctrinaires, had he not been fascinated by the lurid 
 colouring imparted by the Philistine Carlyle to the 
 character of Cromwell, he might have written other- 
 wise, because these very Cavaliers who took up arms 
 for the King had been among the first to resist ship- 
 money ; and to pourtray a military despot as champion 
 of liberty is to outrage common-sense. Besides, if one 
 reads Mr Augustus Smith between the lines, it seems 
 pretty evident that his cool assumption as to the super- 
 iority of a boor to a man of refinement amounts to 
 nothing less than an apt illustration of the fable of the 
 fox and the grapes. If this exponent of Manchester 
 
 66
 
 CARRINGTONS, CARINGTONS, ETC. 67 
 
 politics could have proved his descent from noble 
 Carington and his illustrious ancestors, the Crusaders, 
 we should have been spared the apotheosis of the boor. 
 No doubt, with a feeling of infinite sorrow, the laird 
 of Tresco would have resigned himself to a hard fate 
 which had made him of course against his will ! 
 sharer of the blood that flowed in the veins of a 
 Cavalier. But he would have lost the opportunity 
 of thanking God that he was not as other gentlemen 
 are loyalists, churchmen even as this Carington. 
 
 Setting aside political animus, one may bestow 
 the highest praise on Mr Augustus Smith's genea- 
 logical honesty. When a man goes ancestor-hunting, 
 and tells you, in limine, that his loftiest ambition 
 is to discover a link with a chimney-sweep or a 
 ploughboy, simply you cannot believe him ; but if 
 in the course of his quest he learns that previous 
 attempts to link his line with positive ancestry have 
 no firmer basis than the manipulations of some inter- 
 ested Ananias, and if he resolutely determines to 
 quash the lie, he is entitled to the highest respect, 
 and, indeed, to the gratitude of those who, like the 
 present Lord Carrington, repudiate a mythical preten- 
 sion. Let us briefly glance at the situation as exposed 
 by Mr Augustus Smith. 
 
 Sir Michael Carington was standard-bearer to 
 Richard I., and for that reason doubtless an object 
 of loathing to all Manchester. A descendant of his 
 according to " The Visitation of Essex " having 
 espoused the losing side in the Wars of the Roses, 
 fled the country, but reappeared under the name 
 Smith. For reasons more or less intelligible, his 
 descendants foreswore their ancient and honourable 
 patronymic, and were known simply as Smiths, or 
 rather, to be exact, as Smyths. By an alliance 
 with the elder co-heiress of the Warwickshire Hare- 
 wells her younger sister married, as his second
 
 68 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 wife, Leonard Rede of Boarstal they obtained 
 Wootton Wawen, and again, by annexing another 
 Midland heiress, in the succeeding generation, Ashby 
 Folville,in Leicestershire, where are monuments to their 
 memory, restored by the late Lord Carrington, under 
 the impression, for which Sir William Betham must be 
 held responsible, that he was thereby honouring his 
 ancestors. When Charles I. created the Carington 
 viscountcy the family resumed their true patronymic. 
 
 The first of the Caringtons, alias Smyth, to reside 
 at Ashby Folville was Francis, son of Sir John Smyth 
 of Wootton Wawen by Agnes, daughter and co- 
 heiress of John Harewell. He married Mary, 
 daughter and heiress of John Moreton, and by her, 
 who died in 1563, had a son George, stated to have 
 died in 1607, a3t. 30. These dates are obviously 
 erroneous, inasmuch as they make the said George 
 to have been born in 1577 i.e. fourteen years after 
 his mother's decease. He married Anne, daughter of 
 Sir Thomas Giffard of Chillington, and although only 
 thirty at his death, by her had twelve children ! 
 
 All of this is, to say the least, confused, albeit 
 certified by Sir William Betham. Anyhow, George's 
 eldest son married a Nottinghamshire lady, Miss 
 Markham. Called Francis, after his grandsire, he 
 was knighted, and died in 1629, leaving one son, Sir 
 Charles, who became, by favour of King Charles, 
 Lord Carington, and was killed in France in 1664. 
 The fifth son of George, by Anne Giffard, was John 
 Smyth, alias Carington, and Sir William Betham 
 identified him with another John Smith, a yeoman 
 of Cropwell Boteler, the ancestor of the existing Lord 
 Carrington and of the late Mr Augustus Smith, M.P. 
 
 It will be remembered that George Smith, alias 
 Carington, of Ashby Folville, died in 1607, set. 30. 
 John Smith minus the Carington alias of Cropwell 
 Boteler, was born in 1593, when his alleged sire,
 
 CARRINGTONS, CARINGTONS, ETC. 69 
 
 according to Betham's hopelessly muddled figures, 
 was sixteen, and as, ex hypothesi, he was the fifth 
 son, George must have begun to reproduce his species 
 very early in life. That, of course, is a detail capable 
 of emendation, if the dates could be brought into 
 harmony with the true Carington pedigree. As the 
 tree stands it is simply inexplicable. 
 
 Betham, and the champions of the Carington 
 descent of the present Smiths, who come undoubtedly 
 from John of Cropwell, urge that this John had 
 abjured the Roman creed, to which the true Caring- 
 tons had adhered in the teeth of Protestant perse- 
 cution ; also, that by his marriage with Elizabeth 
 Garton, a yeoman's daughter, and his political as well 
 as religious principles, he had been discarded by his 
 family. But apparently for these hypotheses there 
 exists no proof whatsoever. Moreover, Nichol's 
 pedigree (" History of Leicestershire ") clashes with 
 certain pedigrees in the British Museum, date circa 
 1764, the object of which pedigrees was to prove, that 
 the male issue of the old Carington line was extinct 
 this in reference to the devolution of estates. It 
 may be that these pedigrees, having been compiled 
 with intention, lie open to suspicion. They were 
 accepted, however, by the Court without dispute, 
 and therein we find no John, son of George of 
 Ashby, but on the contrary a John, son of Sir 
 Francis, and brother of the first Lord Carington, 
 which John died s.p. ! If the descendants of John 
 of Cropwell had perceived a chance of obtaining the 
 Carington estates, it is practically certain that such 
 shrewd men of business Nottingham bankers - 
 would not have let the opportunity slip. So far 
 from entering even a caveat, they never dreamt of 
 any kinship, inasmuch as Thomas, High Sheriff for 
 Notts in 1717, had already applied to the Heralds' 
 College for a grant of arms, alleging that he was
 
 70 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 uncertain what arms did belong to his family, and 
 was unwilling to bear any to which he had not a 
 just title. It seems rather putting a gloss on such 
 words to assume that they were meant as a sort of 
 challenge to the college to confirm a right to bear 
 the Carington coat, though it may be admitted that 
 the simpler plan would have been to urge that the 
 family never had borne arms at all, but, as Sydney 
 Smith sarcastically affirmed, had been in the habit of 
 sealing their letters with their thumbs. The Smiths, 
 it may be remarked, two and three centuries ago 
 were as addicted to an alias as in later years. Thus 
 the first of Cropwell Boteler Smiths was Stanydge 
 or Standish, alias Smith ; just as the heir of Mr 
 Augustus Smith, M.P., called himself Smith-Dorrien. 
 It should be added that the Smith alias Stanydge 
 wills and the register of Titheby, the parish whereof 
 Cropwell is a hamlet, go to demonstrate that John of 
 Cropwell was son of John Smith, alias Stanydge, and 
 not of George Carington, grandfather of the first Vis- 
 count Carington. Here the research of Mr Augustus 
 Smith, M.P., has proved especially valuable and con- 
 vincing, and it is a matter for regret that a mere 
 problem in genealogy could not have been submitted 
 to impartial consideration without importing political 
 and polemical animus. That Providence has been 
 invariably on the side of the Whigs amounts to an 
 indemonstrable hypothesis, and that all descendants 
 of Roundheads have been blessed, and all of Cavaliers 
 cursed, is a generalisation altogether too sweeping to 
 bear the test of analysis. That no family has so 
 prospered as the Nottingham Smiths during the past 
 two centuries cannot be controverted. That this 
 phenomenon must be referred to a higher power 
 every man who respects religion will affirm. But 
 that the adherence of the Smiths to buff and dis- 
 sociation with blue had anything to do with it
 
 CARRINGTONS, CARINGTONS, ETC. 71 
 
 represents the type of argument that would only 
 appeal to the very ignorant or supremely prejudiced. 
 Force of character, practical talent, plus the favour 
 of God have combined to make the Smiths ; and so 
 long as they retain their ancestral virtues, it may be 
 safely prophesied that they will not be unmade. 
 
 The following references to the old Caringtons 
 supplement the account given in the Heralds' 
 Visitations : 
 
 (1) A precis taken from the "Diet. Nat. Bio- 
 graphy": Sir John Smith (sic) (1616-44), Royalist; 
 born at Studley, Warwickshire, being the fourth son 
 of Francis Smith of Queeniborough, Leicestershire, 
 by Anne, daughter of Thomas Markham of Allerton, 
 Notts. His eldest brother was raised to the peerage 
 in 1643 as Baron Carington of Wootton Wawen or 
 Wavern, and Viscount Carington of Barreford, in 
 Connaught. Educated as a Roman Catholic, he 
 joined the Spanish army and served in Flanders. 
 He then offered his sword to King Charles I., and 
 receiving a commission defeated the Scots at Staple- 
 ford. At the outbreak of the Civil War he received 
 a Captaincy under Lord John Stewart, and took part 
 in a skirmish at Powick. At Edgehill he recovered 
 the Royal Standard, which had been captured by the 
 enemy after the death of Sir Edmund Verney, and for 
 this exploit was made knight- banneret on the field. 
 Taken prisoner by Waller, he was released, and served 
 as Colonel of Lord Herbert's Horse at Oxford. He was 
 killed in a skirmish with Waller's troops at Cheriton, 
 and is buried in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford." 
 
 (2) From " Stemmata Ferraria," by the late 
 Augustus Smith, M.P., of Tresco : "The Smyth 
 alias Carington family derived its origin from Sir 
 Michael Carington, Standard-Bearer to King Richard 
 I. in the Holy Land, and was long seated in the 
 County of Essex at Crossing Temple. The name Smyth
 
 A 
 
 72 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 bP 
 
 (Smythe) or Smith is reported to have been adopted 
 during the Wars of the Roses for the purposes of 
 concealment, and afterwards retained during several 
 generations. Its chief seat was subsequently trans- 
 ferred to Wootton, in Warwickshire, by a marriage 
 with an heiress of the Harewell family, and still later 
 to Ashby Folville, in Leicestershire, by another mar- 
 riage with the heiress of the Mortons in the reign 
 of Henry VIII., about 1540. During the Civil Wars 
 the head of the family was created by Charles I. 
 Baron Carington, and the family to a certain extent 
 gradually resumed the name of Carington. At this 
 period the several branches were numerous, and 
 for the most part adhered to the Roman Catholic 
 faith. 
 
 " Wootton Wavern (Wawen) is now possessed, 
 curiously enough, by a baronet of the name of Smyth. 
 This family are of Acton Barrell (Burnell), in Shrop- 
 shire, and acquired this property by the marriage 
 with the widow of its last Carington owner." 
 
 THE CROPWELL BOTELER LINE 
 
 Thomas Smith (1631-99) = (1) Mary Hooper, and 
 by her had two daughters, Mary (1665-1720), who by 
 John Egleton had a son, Sir Charles, ancestor of 
 the Kents, Barts. ; and Fortune (1669-91). He = 
 (2) Fortune, daughter of a Roundhead artilleryman, 
 named Collin, of Nottingham, and by her (1654-1715) 
 had Thomas, John, Samuel, Abel, Jane, and Anne. 
 From Thomas, Samuel, and Abel sprang three 
 distinct branches. 
 
 Thomas, the eldest son (1682-1727), left no son, 
 but a skein of daughters. Of these, Mary = Dr 
 Tennison, nephew of the Archbishop and Chancellor 
 of the Diocese of Oxford ; Elizabeth = Giles Eyre ;
 
 CARRINGTONS, CARINGT<M, ETC. 73 
 
 ^^* 
 Katherine = William Ring ; Anne, who died in 1786 
 
 = Henry Walters, and Harriot, died in 1784. 
 
 Samuel, of Gadsby, Leicestershire, goldsmith, of 
 London, who died in 1651, = Elizabeth, heiress of 
 John Cartlich, goldsmith, and by her had (1) John 
 (1716-17), (2) Anne (b. 1718), (3) John, (4) Thomas 
 (1720-65), of Nottingham and Key worth = Dorothy 
 Lister (who remarried Henry Powys of the Abbey, 
 Shrewsbury), and by her had Elizabeth = Sir Philip 
 Hales, Bart., and by him had Elizabeth, of Brymore, 
 Somerset, at whose decease Brymore passed to the 
 Bouveries ; (5) Samuel, of Aldermanbury and Epsom 
 (1722-89) = Elizabeth (1723-82), daughter of Thos. 
 Watson, and by her had (1) Elizabeth, (2) Samuel 
 (1755-93), M.P. for Ilchester and Worcester = Mary, 
 daughter of Geo. Lockyer (who remarried ... Brett- 
 ingham), and by her left Thomas (1778-1806), s.p., 
 and three daughters ; (3) Thomas (1755-1800) = Hon. 
 Mary Hely Hutchinson, daughter of Lord Donough- 
 more, and by her had (1) William, E.I.C.S. (1792- 
 1821), s.p., (2) Christiana = Rev. Geo. Almond, (3) 
 Rev. Hely Hutchinson (1796-1830) = Kate, daughter 
 of J. Williams, Esq., and by her had Rev. Hely H. 
 A. = Harriet A., daughter of Joseph Merton, Esq., and 
 had issue ; (4) William (b. 1756), (5) Rev. Charles, 
 Fellow of New Coll. (b. 1757) = Anne, daughter of 
 Anthony Sawyer, of Hey wood, Berks., and by her 
 had (1) Chas. W. =a sister of Vice- Chancellor Shad- 
 well, and had issue; (2) Mary Anne, (3) Rev. Robert 
 Hopton = Jane Bovill Chapman, and had issue; (4) 
 Rev. Herbert, of Shirley (b. 1800) = Cassandra, 
 daughter of Captain Chamberlayne, of Maugersbury, 
 and had issue, Herbert Chamberlayne (b. 1829), 
 Charles Harcourt (b. 1830), and a daughter; (5) 
 Lieut. John (1756-82), (6) Mary (b. 1760) = Thos. 
 Watson, (7) Jemima (1761-93), (8) George (1764- 
 1811) = Frances, daughter of Ant. Sawyer, and by
 
 74 HE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 her had (1) George Anthony, E.LC.S. (1801-49) = 
 (a) Eugenie, daughter of Captain Bonchey (1802-31), 
 and by her had Frances Mary (1826-53) = Captain 
 Hamilton, Madras Inf. issue ; George, Mahratta 
 Horse (1826-65) = Mary B. Kerr issue; John S. 
 (1830-52) ; Laura A. (1831-48). Mr Geo. Anthony 
 Smith = (/3) Katherine, daughter of Dr Batten, Prin- 
 cipal of Haileybury, and by her had Katherine P. ; 
 Jane C. = Kev. J. Aldworth. (2) Harcourt (b. 1802), 
 
 (3) Frances M. (1804-51) = Herbert Sawyer issue; 
 
 (4) Kev. Samuel = Frances J. M., daughter of Major 
 Brooks issue. (9) James, of Ashlyns, Herts (1768- 
 1843) = (a) Frances, daughter of J. Arbuthnot, and 
 ha,d issue, James (1800-11) ; (/3) Mary Isabella, 
 daughter of Augustus Pechell, Esq., and by her had 
 (1) Augustus, of Ashlyns and Tresco Abbey, M.P. 
 for Truro 1857-65 ; (2) Frederick G., 13th Dragoons 
 (1806-26) ; (3) Frances M. I. = Col. Thos. Le Mar- 
 chant ; (4) Theodore S. (1813-23), (5) Paulina W. 
 (1820-35), (6) Robert A. Smith-Dorrien, Col. Herts 
 Militia = Mary Ann, daughter of Dr Drever, by Mary 
 A, daughter of Thos. Dorrien. By her he had (I) 
 Thos. A., 10th Hussars ; (2) Frances A. I. ; (3) 
 Frederick (1846-48), (5) Marian, (6) Henry T., (7) 
 Walter M., (8) Amy, (9) Edith, (10) Alena P., (11) 
 Arthur H, (12) Horace L, (13) Mary B., (14) Maud 
 C., (15) Laura M., (16) Helen D. 
 
 Mr Augustus Smith, who waxed very sarcastic over 
 any attempt to shelve a patronymic whereof he 
 avowed himself proud, styled his brother, who had 
 assumed the additional name of Dorrien, " semi- 
 disguised." The Carringtons, Pauncefotes, and 
 Bromleys he spoke of as totally disguised. In his 
 justification of the old homely name he was at all 
 events consistent, if, perhaps, unduly severe. 
 
 We now come to Abel (so named after the Notting- 
 ham Eoundhead gunner, Abel Collin), who died in
 
 ^ 
 
 CARRINGTONS, CARINGTCW9L ETC. 75 
 
 1757, and married Jane, daughter of Geo. Beaumont, . \ 
 of Darton. By her he had (1) Sir George, created \ \ 
 Bart, in 1757. He married, first, Mary, daughter l/i 
 of Major Howe, by Elizabeth, co-heiress of WillianiXjLV 
 Pauncefote, of Carrswells, Newent. She died 1761, \ 
 he 1763. By her he had (1) Howe (b. 1744); (2) 
 Mary (b. 1751); (3) Sir George, 2nd Bart., who assumed 
 the name of Bromley (1753-1808), and married Hon. 
 Hester, daughter of Viscount Curzon, being succeeded 
 by Sir Robert Howe Bromley (1778 - 1857), who, 
 marrying Anne, daughter of Daniel Wilson, Esq., of 
 Dalton Tower, had Robert (1815-1850), M.P. for 
 Notts, s.p. ; Sir Henry Bromley (b. 1816), who, by 
 Charlotte F. A., daughter of Colonel Rolleston, had 
 a son, Henry (b. 1849) = Adela A., daughter of 
 Westley Richards, Esq. issue, Robert (b. 1874) ; 
 Maurice (b. 1875); Arthur; he remarried Georgina 
 E., daughter of Vere Fane, Esq., but by her had no 
 issue; Anne, died 1857; Charles, R.N. (b. 1820); 
 William (1831-36); Thomas, Bombay Army (b. 
 1822), married first, Lucie, daughter of General 
 Webber, of Buckland, and by her had Reginald 
 Howe ; Adelaide H. E. M. ; Edith V. and Constance 
 G. twins. He married, secondly, Clara, daughter of 
 Sir Fitzroy Kelly, and by her had Inez M. M. S. E. ; 
 Beatrice R. ; Rupert Fitzroy. Caroline = Sir James 
 Campbell, Bart. issue; Elizabeth = F. F. Eliot, Esq.; 
 Mary = John Henry Elwes ; Arthur, Edward, Sophia. 
 John, next brother to Sir George (b. 1716), had 
 a son, Thomas, who, by Mary Bigsby, had Thomas, 
 Mary, George, Robert. Of the issue of Thomas there 
 is no record. Mary died s.p. George, of Edwalton 
 (1774-1843) = Eliza Margaret, daughter of William 
 Davis, and by her had (1) Charlotte (1801-38) = 
 Thomas Boultbee, son of Sir Thomas Parkyns, and 
 had issue Sir T. G. A. Parkyns, sixth Baronet ; (2) 
 Eliza (1803-59) = General W. D. Jones; (3) George
 
 ) 
 
 76 Tip SMITH FAMILY 
 
 Henry (1805-62) = Louisa, daughter of James Atkin- 
 son, Esq., and by her had Charlotte Parkyns = 
 Frederick Alexander, Esq.; Eliza = Major Bunny, 
 R. A. ; Thomas ; Robert Pauncefote ; George Llew- 
 ellin ; Louisa Julia ; Constance E. ; Percy H. ; (4) 
 Colonel John T. = Maria S., daughter of Dr Tyser, 
 and had issue, Percy G., Louisa M., Henry C., Maria 
 L. =Molyneux Coldingham, Fanny E., Walter F., 
 Emily G., Mary C., Arthur P., Edith C., Annie M., 
 Mansfield G., Florence A.; (5) Caroline = The Very 
 Rev. L. Llewellin, T.C.D., Dean of St David's; (6) 
 Frances E. = Rev. C. W. Grove. 
 
 Robert, the youngest son of Thomas Smith by 
 Mary Bigsby (1788-1845), took the name of Paunce- 
 fote. He was of Preston Court, Gloucestershire, and 
 by Emma, daughter of R. Smith, Esq. had (1) Clara = 
 Admiral William Popham, and had issue ; (2) Robert 
 (1819-47), s.p. ; (3) Matilda T. =Herr Lachmann ; (4) 
 Bernard, E.I.C.S., by Louisa, daughter of A. Phillips, 
 Esq., had Bernard, Eleanor, Emma, Clara; (5) Sir 
 ulian, of the Inner Temple, by Selina, daughter of 
 Cubitt, had Julian Reginald, Selina Maude. 
 After serving as Assistant Under Secretary of State 
 at the Colonial Office, Chief-Justice of the Leeward 
 Islands, Attorney-General and Chief- Justice of Hong 
 Kong, he became Ambassador to the United States, 
 and for his signal services as a diplomatist was raised 
 to the Peerage, as Baron Pauncefote. The name his 
 father assumed was one of great antiquity in Glouces- 
 tershire. We find John Panfote (sic) Sheriff for that 
 County, 1 Henry VI. He bore gules 3 lions rampant 
 arg. ; and served a second time, 13 Henry VI. In 
 the reign of Philip and Mary the name was Pannefort, 
 Nicholas being Sheriff. The name also occurs in 
 Doomsday Book, but in connection with Hampshire 
 and Wilts. The family were established in Glouces- 
 tershire by special grant from Henry III. Later we
 
 CARRINGTONS, CARINGTO^S, ETC. 77 
 
 find other branches ; but the home of the race was 
 at Hasfield, Preston Court, Lord Pauncefote's seat, 
 having been a younger son's portion. By his wife, 
 Selina Fitzgerald, he has had four daughters, Maud, 
 born 1862, Violet Sybil, 1872, Lilian, 1875, and 
 Audley Olivia, 1876. " 
 
 We now revert to Abel, the Nottingham banker, 
 born in 1717, M.P. 1774-85, and uncle of Robert 
 Smith, of Preston Court, who assumed the name of 
 Pauncefote. Abel, by Mary, daughter of Thomas 
 Bird, Esq., of Barton, had (1) Thomas, s.p. ; (2) 
 Abel ; (3) Robert. Abel, the younger, married Eliza- 
 beth Appleby, and by her had a daughter, Mary, who 
 married Rev. John Sargent, Squire of Lavington. 
 Their son was Fellow of Merton College, Oxon, and 
 died s.p. Their daughters married Bishop Samuel 
 Wilberforce ; Rev. H. Wilberforce ; Cardinal Manning 
 (as Archdeacon) ; and Rev. George Dudley Ryder. 
 
 Robert, the next son (1752-1838), being the banker 
 and personal friend of William Pitt, was by him created 
 Baron Carrington of the Peerage of Ireland, 1796, 
 and Baron Carrington of Upton, in the Peerage of 
 the United Kingdom, 1797, D.C.L., F.R.A.S. He 
 married, in 1780, Anne, daughter of L. B. Barnard, 
 Esq., of South Cave, and by her had, with others who 
 died young, Robert J., second baron; Harriet = 
 Colonel Crewe, nephew of Lord Crewe she died 
 1856 ; Catherine L. = the fourth Earl Stanhope, and 
 died in 1843 ; Charlotte E. = the second Lord Gardner, 
 and died in 1811; Esther = Right Hon. Sir H. Watkin 
 Wynne, and died in 1854; Emily = the Right Hon. 
 Lord Granville Somerset, and died in 1869. Lady 
 Carrington died in 1827, and in 1836 Lord Carrington 
 married, as his second wife, Charlotte, daughter of 
 John Hudson, Esq., of Basingby, and widow of the 
 Rev. W. Farquhar. She died in 1849. 
 
 Robert John, the second baron (1796-1868), as-
 
 78 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 r 
 
 sumed in 1839 the old name Carington, with the single 
 " r." He married, first, Eliza C., daughter of the first 
 Lord Forester (1803-32), and by her had Cecil K. M., 
 who = Lord Colville of Culross. He married, secondly, 
 Charlotte Augusta, daughter of Lord Willoughby 
 D'Eresby, Hereditary Great Chamberlain, and by her 
 had Charles R., now Lord Carrington ; William 
 H. P., Colonel Grenadier Guards, M.P. for Wycombe, 
 1868-83, Equerry to Queen Victoria born in 1845, in 
 1871 he = Juliet, daughter of F. Warden, Esq. ; Rupert 
 C. G., M.P. for Bucks, 1880-85 born in 1852, he 
 married, in 1891, Edith, daughter of J. Horsfall, Esq., 
 of Liverpool; Augusta C. = 1864, Lord Blythswood ; 
 Eva = 1869, the eighth Earl of Harrington. Lord 
 Carrington was Lord-Lieutenant of Bucks. 
 
 The present Earl Carrington, born in 1843, was 
 created Earl July 16, 1895, and Viscount Wen- 
 dover. He is P.C. and G.C.M.G. ; was M.P. for 
 Wycombe, 1865-68 ; Captain of the Corps of Gentle- 
 men-at-Arms, 1881-85 ; Governor of New South 
 Wales, 1885-90 ; Lord Chamberlain, 1892-95 ; jure 
 matris, one of the co-heiresses of Lord Wil- 
 loughby D'Eresby, he also is joint Hereditary Great 
 Chamberlain. He married, July 15, 1878, the Hon. 
 Cecilia M. Harbord, daughter of the fifth Lord 
 Suffield, and by her has Albert Edward. S.C.R., 
 Viscount Wendover, born April 24, 1895 sponsor, 
 H.M. the King ; Marjorie C., born 1880 ; Alexandra 
 A., born 1881 H.M. the Queen sponsor ; 
 Ruperta, born 1883 ; Judith S. M., born 1889 ; 
 Victoria Alexandrina, born 1892 H.M. Queen 
 Victoria sponsor in person. 
 
 Arms of the Earls of Carrington : Or, on a chevron 
 cotised between 3 demi-griffins, sa., a mullet for 
 difference. 
 
 Crest : An elephant's head erased or, eared gu., 
 charged on the neck with 3 fleurs-de-lis, two and one,
 
 CARRINGTONS, CARINGTONS, ETC. 79 
 
 az. Supporters. Two griffins, sa., wings elevated or, 
 the dexter charged with 3 fleurs-de-lis palewise or, 
 the sinister with 3 trefoils slipped palewise of the last. 
 
 Motto : Tenax in fide. 
 
 We now come to Samuel, the next brother of 
 Robert, Baron Carrington (1754-1834). He was of 
 Woodall, Herts, and M.P. He married Eliza 
 Frances, daughter of Edmund Turner, a Lincolnshire 
 squire (1756-1835), and by her had (1) Sophia (1764- 
 1844) = William Dickenson of King's Weston, and by 
 him had William (1804-1820) ; Francis Henry = Caro- 
 line, daughter of General Carey ; Sophia ; Caroline ; 
 Edmund = Emily, daughter of Lord Auckland, Bishop 
 of Bath and Wells ; Mary, daughter of Francis 
 Henry Dickenson, Esq. of King's Weston = 1878, The 
 Hon. T. C. Agar-Robartes, now Baron Robartes and 
 Viscount Clifden. (2) Frances Ann (1765-1862) = 
 Claude G. Thornton, and left issue. (3) Mary = 
 Thomas Daniell, and left issue. (4) Abel, M.P. for 
 Herts (1788-1859) -(1) The Lady Mary Anne Mel- 
 ville, daughter of the ninth Earl of Leven ; (2) 
 Frances A. Calvert, and by her had Robert Hanbury, 
 M.P. for Middlesex; Abel, M.P. for East Herts = 
 The Lady Susan Pelham, daughter of the Earl of 
 Chichester, and had E.P., Evelyn Mary, Abel Henry, 
 Mary = Charles Daniell, Robert, Elizabeth F., 
 Philip, Adelaide = John F. Sullivan, Albert, Lucy 
 = F. Pinney, Sophia. (5) Samuel George (1789- 
 1863) = Eugenia, daughter of Rev. Dr Caulfield, and 
 by her had Samuel G., M.P. for Aylesbury; Fred. 
 Chatfield = Harriet M., daughter of F. Pym, Esq. (and 
 by her had Herbert F., Katherine Maud, Cecil L., 
 Ruthven F., Ethel M.), Rowland = Constance C. L., 
 daughter of Lord Granville Somerset (and by her had 
 Constance Eugenie, Granville R.) ; Horace J. = 
 Cecilia, daughter of George Bosanquet, Esq. ; Eugenia 
 Maria; Charlotte Eugenia. (6) Caroline (1790-1816)
 
 80 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 = General Carey, and by him had Caroline (b. 1816), 
 who became wife of Francis Dickenson of King's 
 Weston (vide supra). (7) Lucy (1791-1820). (8) Anna 
 Maria (1793-94). (9) Henry (b. 1794) = The Lady 
 Lucy, daughter of the tenth Earl of Leven and 
 Melville, and by her had Henry Abel (b. 1826) = 
 Elizabeth, daughter of Francis Pym, M.P. (and had 
 (1) Lucy Jane, (2) Elizabeth M., (3) Samuel Henry, 
 (4) Marianne, (5) Alice M., (6) Constance H., (7) 
 Francis Abel, Robert Melville, Lucy Jane, Mari- 
 anne). (10) Margaret Jane (1796-97). (11) Barbara 
 (1797-1861) = James Edward Gordon, R.N., and had 
 issue. (12) Edmund (1799-1805). (13) Charlotte (b. 
 1800) = Hon. Alexander Leslie Melville, brother of 
 the Earl of Leven, and had issue. 
 
 We now come to George, next brother of the first 
 Lord Carrington (1765-1836). He was of Selsdon, 
 and M.P. for Midhurst By Frances Maria, daughter 
 of Sir John Mosley, Bart., he had (1) George Robert 
 (b. 1783 = Jane, daughter of J. Maberly, M.P., and 
 by her had Ernald Mosley (b. 1839), Walter C. (b. 
 1841) ). (2) Oswald (1794-1863) = Henrietta Mil- 
 dred, daughter of Dr Hodgson, Dean of Carlisle (and 
 by her had (1) Isabella M. = Cadogan H. Cadogan, 
 and had issue ; (2) Oswald A. =Rose S., daughter of 
 A. Vansittart, Esq., and had issue, Basil G. O. ; (3) 
 Eric Carrington = Mary, daughter of J. Maberly, 
 M.P., and by her had Gertrude M., Lindsay Eric, 
 Virginia K., Margaret R., Algernon F. E., Mildred 
 F. ; (4) Laura Charlotte = Evan Maberly, R.E. ; (5) 
 Beilby ; (6) Frances Dora = the Earl of Strathmore ; 
 (7) Maria Henrietta = Henry Dorrien Streatfield 
 of Chiddingstone, and had issue ; (8) Harry M.). 
 (3) John Henry (b. 1795). (4) Thomas Charles ; 
 (b. 1797). (5) Frances Mary (b. 1796) = Rev. Robert 
 Mosley, and had issue. (6) Georgiana Eliza (b. 1801) 
 = Rev. E. S. P. Serocold, and had issue. (7) Edward
 
 CARRINGTONS, CARINGTONS, ETC. 81 
 
 Peploe = (1) Henrietta F., daughter of Charles 
 Bailey, E.I.C.S., and by her had Mary Ann Bailey; 
 (2) Harriet Chester, and by her had Emily F. = Archi- 
 bald Murray ; Henrietta S. = Dr Kirby ; Arthur 
 Chester ; Isabella H. ; Louisa K. ; Isabella M. (8) 
 Arthur (b. 1804). (9) Emily (b. 1806) = Rev. C. 
 Otway Mayne, rector of Midsomer Norton, and 
 student of Christ Church, issue. (10) Catherine 
 (b. 1807) = Edward, twelfth son of Sir E. Wigram, 
 Bart., and had issue. (11) Edmund of N. Ferriby 
 (b. 1809) = Hester, daughter of Judge Lushington, 
 and had issue. (12) Mosley. (13) Sophia S. =Rev. 
 W. P. Wigram, and had issue, with others, Ernest, 
 Demy of Magdalen. (14) Alfred (b. 1815) = Mary, 
 daughter of Vice-Chancellor Wigram. (15) Augusta 
 Mary = Rev. Lewis Deedes, and had issue, with others, 
 Rev. Cecil Deedes, Chaplain of Christ Church, and a 
 daughter who married Bishop Saumarez-Smith, D.D. 
 The last of the brothers of the first Lord Carring- 
 ton was John (1767-1842), M.P. He married (1) 
 Sarah, daughter of Thomas Boone, Esq., s.p. ; (2) a 
 daughter of General Tucker, by whom he had (1) 
 John Abel, M.P. (b. 1802) = Anne, daughter of Sir 
 S. C. Jervoise, Bart., and by her had (1) Jervoise; 
 (2) Dudley R. =Emma M., daughter of E. Willes, 
 Esq., of Astrop, and by her had Reginald, Ada M., 
 Beatrice M. ; (3) Hugh Colin = Constance, daughter 
 of H. Adeane, Esq., of Babraham. (2) Martin Tucker, 
 M.P. (b. 1803) = Louisa, daughter of Sir M. W. 
 Ridley, and had issue (1) Martin Ridley = Emily C., 
 daughter of the Hon. . . . Stuart, and had issue Martin 
 Stuart; (2) Elizabeth L. = Thomas H., son of Sir R. 
 Newman, Bart., of Mamhead ; (3) Louisa M. = 
 H. Daly- White, C.B. ; (4) Helen = Hon. Arthur 
 Egerton, fourth son of the Earl of Ellesmere ; (5) 
 Rosa ; (6) Francis N. ; (7) Gerard ; (8) Henry ; (9) 
 Charles R. ; (10) Minto ; (11) Mary.
 
 82 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 Mr John Smith, M.P., married, thirdly, Emma, 
 daughter of Egerton Leigh of the West Hall, High 
 Legh, Cheshire, and by her had Emma (b. 1812), 
 Caroline (b. 1813) = General F. E. Gascoigne. 
 
 Elizabeth, sister to Mr John Smith, M.P. = William 
 Manning ; and another sister, Lucy, died unmarried. 
 
 A more populous pedigree, and one more per- 
 plexing to unravel the record of Mr Augustus 
 Smith differing from that of Burke never taxed 
 the long-suffering genealogist. Apart from the 
 living Lord Carrington, who, as Governor of New 
 South Wales, has played a part infinitely more im- 
 portant than that of a Cabinet Minister, and apart 
 also from the living Lord Pauncefote, a diplomatist 
 whose tact approximates genius, the above catalogue 
 teems with major and minor celebrities. 
 
 Among their number I recall that personable and 
 affable gentleman, Mr John Abel Smith, Liberal 
 M.P. for Chichester. I had the pleasure, in the winter 
 of 1858, of meeting him at the hospitable table of the 
 late Mr Hervey of Bradwell Grove, my grandfather's 
 trustee and life-long friend, whose wife, Lady Arabella, 
 was great-aunt of the present Lord Rosebery. At 
 that time reform was in the air, and the conversation 
 turned on the ballot, to which Mr Hervey and the 
 whole Tory party entertained a strong objection. To 
 our amazement, in the midst of a heated discussion, 
 the Whig, Mr John Abel Smith, remarked: "If you 
 were to introduce the ballot (i.e. secret voting, vice 
 the lobby) into the House of Commons, none but the 
 most ultra-Tory measures would have a chance of 
 passing." A few years later Disraeli capped this naif 
 confession by styling the Liberal party " an organised 
 hypocrisy." Certes, Mr John Abel Smith electrified 
 my callow intelligence by his malapert honesty. 
 
 The following particulars are extracted from the 
 notice of this gentleman in the " Dictionary of National
 
 CARRINGTONS, CARINGTONS, ETC. 83 
 
 Biography" : John Abel Smith (1801-71), banker, son 
 of John Smith, a member of the firm of which the 
 first Lord Carrington was head. Educated at Christ's, 
 Cambridge, B.A. 1824, M.A. 1827. M.P. for Mid- 
 hurst 1830. M.P. for Chichester 1831-59, and again 
 elected in 1863-68. A Liberal. Supported Lord 
 Grey's Reform Bill, and the admission of Jews to 
 Parliament. In 1869 introduced a Bill to limit the 
 hours of closing. In 1827 married Anne, daughter of 
 Sir J. Clarke Jervoise, Bart., widow of R. W. Grey 
 of Backworth. J.P. for Middlesex and Sussex. Died 
 a,t Kippington, Kent. 
 
 A contemporary of John Abel in the House of 
 Commons was Augustus John Smith, author of 
 " Stemmata Ferraria " (1804-72), son of John Smith 
 of Ashlyns, Herts, by Mary Isabella, daughter of 
 Augustus Pechell, Esq. He was born in Harley 
 Street, and educated at Harrow and Christ Church, 
 Oxford, B.A. 1826. He contested Truro unsuc- 
 cessfully in 1852, but was returned in 1857. A 
 strong Liberal, he engaged a band of navvies to de- 
 stroy the fences which Lord Brownlow had erected 
 round Ashridge Common (vide Punch, March 24, 
 1866, " A Lay of Modern England "). Lessee of The 
 Scilly Isles, he proved a great benefactor to their 
 inhabitants, and was succeeded at Tresco by his 
 nephew, T. A. Smith-Dorrien, Esq., "the semi-dis- 
 guised," as he termed him. 
 
 Of the Cropwell Smiths perhaps the first Lord 
 Carrington occupies the highest place. Robert 
 (1752-1838) was eldest surviving son of Abel 
 Smith, by Mary, daughter of Thomas Bird of 
 Barton, Warwickshire. He was baptised at St 
 Peter's, Nottingham. His father had represented 
 Aldborough 1774, St Ives 1780, and St Germans 
 1785. He was elected for Nottingham in 1779, and 
 returned during the ensuing five Parliaments for his
 
 84 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 native borough. He owed his peerage to Mr Pitt, 
 whom he is alleged to have financed ; and, if that be 
 so, it may be affirmed that his was not the first, still 
 less the last, instance where a commoner has been 
 rewarded with a coronet for having rendered pecu- 
 niary assistance to an existing or prospective Prime 
 Minister. Unfortunately for him, his elevation was 
 greeted with a chorus of ridicule the banker of a 
 century back inheriting the traditions of the scrivener 
 and goldsmith of an earlier period, and being held in 
 less reverence than has since been accorded the trade 
 of money-dealing. George the Third was with diffi- 
 culty induced to accord the Koyal consent to his 
 entering the House of Lords, and Mr Augustus 
 Smith, who entertained no great love for the Upper 
 House, quotes with gusto the following charade of a 
 contemporary wit : 
 
 " My first leads to triumph and fame ; 
 
 My second brings joy or vexation ; 
 My third though it be but a name 
 
 Will govern the whole of the nation ; 
 My whole is a title but hush ! 
 
 This charade will perchance be too clear, 
 For it put the whole Court to the blush, 
 
 When His Majesty made it appear (a peer)." 
 
 Mr Augustus Smith's predecessors on the Liberal 
 benches were especially outraged, the more so, perhaps, 
 because the banker- baron, unlike other Smiths of this 
 line, was a determined and enthusiastic Tory. He 
 was fobbed off in the first instance with an Irish 
 peerage, but the leverage of gold within a few months 
 obtained him an English patent. From the title he 
 assumed it seems tolerably certain that he believed 
 in the link which Betham subsequently forged to 
 connect the yeoman of Cropwell Boteler with the 
 Cavalier and Crusader Caringtons ; but it was his son 
 who eliminated the distinctive "r," and, in perfect
 
 CARRINGTONS, CARINGTONS, ETC. 85 
 
 good faith, restored the ancient Carington monuments 
 in Ashby Folvile Church, having purchased the side 
 chapel, which had been set apart as a mortuary for 
 the real Caringtons. It is perhaps unnecessary to 
 state that the present Earl has reverted to the tradi- 
 tional family politics, and is a consistent supporter of 
 the Liberal party. 
 
 Although the link is missing, there seems a 
 strong probability of William Smith, the Quaker of 
 Besthorpe, Notts, who died in 1673, being of the 
 Cropwell strain. He was imprisoned by Cromwell 
 in 1658 for non-payment of tithes, and in 1661 was 
 arrested, while preaching at Worcester, for having 
 refused the oath of allegiance. For this offence he 
 lay in Nottingham gaol until 1665. He published 
 several controversial books, and his second wife, 
 Elizabeth Newton, was of Nottingham. Another 
 Quaker, William Smith, of the same period, was of 
 Sileby and Market Harborough. He too was a con- 
 troversialist, and George Fox held meetings in his 
 house at Sileby. Both these Quakers appear to have 
 been indigenous to the Cropwell district. 
 
 CAKINGTON NOW SMITH- CARINGTON. 
 
 [Vide Visitations of Essex, 1612, 1634 ; Visitation of Norfolk, 1612 ; Visitation 
 of Notts, 1569 ; Visitation of Warwick, 1619.] 
 
 From the Comtes de Carinton in Normandy de- 
 scended Hamo (temp. William I.), who gave his 
 name to Carinton in Cheshire. It was probably his 
 grandson, by name Sir Michael, who, after aliening 
 to the Buttons the manor of Sale, joined Richard 
 I. in the Crusades, became his standard-bearer, and 
 died in the Holy Land. M.I. in St John's, Chester. 
 His son William died 25 Henry III., leaving, with 
 others, William, Bailiff of Dunham Massey = Agnes, 
 daughter of William De Toft, and, dying in 1274, 
 left issue (1) Sir William, his heir ; (2) Sir Edmond, 
 killed at Bannockburn ; (3) Sir Philip ; and others.
 
 86 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 Sir William, knighted at Falkirk by Edward I. = 
 Anne, daughter of Sir Edmund Farnell, and by her 
 had, with three sons and three daughters, Sir John 
 De Carynton (d. 1359) = Sibilla, daughter of Alan 
 De Eixton, and by her had, with others, Sir William, 
 knighted by Edward III. at the battle of Sluys, 1340. 
 He bore on a bend three lozenges, with for crest out 
 of a ducal coronet a unicorn's head. He married (1) 
 Katherine, daughter of Sir William De Montacute, 
 whose wife gave the meadow now known as Christ 
 Church to the convent of St Frideswide at Oxford. 
 M.I. Christ Church Cathedral. By her he had (1) 
 Sir Thomas, of whom anon ; (2) Michael, died in 
 Spain, s.p. ; (3) Isabel = Sir Nicholas Farington ; (4) 
 Catherine = Sir Thomas Wake ; (5) Eleanor = Sir John 
 Curzon, and by him had William Curzon, Abbot of 
 St Osyth, Essex, who, in 1404, befriended John 
 Carington (vide infra). 
 
 Sir William married (2) Matilda, daughter of Sir 
 Peter Arderne of Alvanly, and by her had Edward, 
 s.p. ; Sir George, Lord of Carington ; and others. 
 He died in 1377, and was succeeded by his eldest 
 son, Sir Thomas, knighted in Gascony by the Black 
 Prince (d. 1383) = Margaret, daughter of Sir Robert 
 De Roos, by whom he had (1) Sir Edmund, who, by 
 Joanna, daughter of Sir John Ferrers, left no male 
 issue ; (2) John (b. 1374). 
 
 This latter gentleman, so the legend runs, was born, 
 and also bred in Gascony by Sir N. Neville. Arrived at 
 man's estate, he entered the service of Richard II., and 
 at the decease of his elder brother came to England. 
 On Henry coming to the throne he fled the realm, 
 and his uncle, Sir George, took possession of Caring- 
 ton and the estates. In 1404 he changed his name 
 to Smyth, and sought sanctuary at St Osyth's Abbey, 
 where he found a patron in his kinsman, the Abbot 
 Curzon. He must have been under attainder, for
 
 CARRINGTONS, CARINGTONS, ETC. 87 
 
 he never dared attempt to recover his rights, and 
 continued to the end to disguise himself as Smyth, 
 adopting a fresh coat of arms viz. a cross between 
 four peacocks (vide "Visitation of Essex"). He 
 married (2) Millicent, daughter of Robert Laynham, 
 and heiress of her grandfather, Lord Mayor Hende. 
 By her he had (a) Thomas of Rivenhall = (1) . . . 
 Hamond, and by her had Sir Thomas of Rivenhall ; 
 = (2) Isabella, daughter of William Toft of Little 
 Baddow, and by her had Sir Clement, who = Dorothy, 
 sister of Queen Jane Seymour ; John, Serjeant-at- 
 Law ; Leonard of Shuldham. (b) Robert, who left 
 issue, (c) Hugh of Cressing Temple. And others. 
 
 Hugh Smyth of Cressing Temple (d. 1485) = Eliza- 
 beth Smith of Morvill, Salop, and by her had Sir 
 John Smyth, Remembrancer of the Exchequer, 1513, 
 and Baron 1540 will 1547. He married (1) Alice, 
 daughter of Edward Woode, citizen of London, by 
 whom he had (1) Edmund = Barbara, daughter of Sir 
 John Hampden. Their daughter and heiress = Sir W. 
 Paulet. (2) Thomas of Cressing Temple = (2) Mary, 
 daughter of Sir Thomas Neville of Holt, whence the 
 Nevilles of Holt. (3) Edward = Elizabeth, daughter 
 of Eustace Fitzherbert, and had John of Dunmow. 
 Sir John = (2) Agnes, daughter of John Harewell 
 of Wootton Wawen, and by her had, with others, 
 Francis, High Sheriff of Leicester and Warwick, 1566 
 (1522-1607), who = Mary, daughter of John Moreton 
 of Ashby Folville, great- nephew of the Cardinal, 
 who claimed to be twenty-second in descent from 
 King Alfred, and by her had George (1541-1607) 
 = Anne, daughter of Sir Thos. Giffard of Chilling- 
 ton, and by her had, with others, Sir Francis* of 
 Ashby Folville and Wootton Wawen (1570-1629) = 
 Anne, daughter of Sir Thos. Markham of Allerton, 
 
 * For the descent of this line, as given by the Benedictines of Ghent, 
 refer to pedigree of Smythes, Barts. of Acton Burnell, page 92.
 
 88 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 leaving issue (1) Sir Charles, created Lord Carington 
 13th October, and Viscount 4th November 1643, mur- 
 dered at Pontoise, 1665. He married Elizabeth,* 
 daughter of Sir John Caryll of S. Harting, Sussex, 
 by whom, with six daughters, he had Francis, second 
 Viscount = (1) Juliana, daughter of Sir T. Walmesley, 
 and (2) Anne, daughter of William Herbert, Marquis 
 of Powis by neither wife did he leave surviving 
 issue ; Caryll = Grace, daughter of H. Turville, but 
 had no male issue ; John, a Koman priest ; Charles, 
 third Viscount (1635-1706) = Frances, daughter of Sir 
 J. Pate, Bart., s.p. (2) Thomas of Broxton = Mary, 
 daughter of Sir P. Blakiston, and left issue, three 
 sons all s.p. and two daughters. (3) Francis, 
 whose son, Francis of Acton, Salop = Audrey Att- 
 wood, and by her had Francis = Catherine Southcote, 
 and by her had Francis = Mary Englefield, and others. 
 (4) Major-General Sir John, knighted at Edgehill 
 for rescuing the Royal Standard, 1642. Killed at 
 Alresford, March 30, 1644 ; buried at Christ Church 
 Cathedral. M.I. 
 
 We now revert to the issue of George of Ashby 
 Folville (1541-1607). 
 
 The third son, younger brother of Sir Francis, was 
 George of Queeniborough, Leicester (1577-1642), who 
 by Mary, daughter of Edward Holte of Aston, War- 
 wick, had (1) George of Queeniborough (1614-53) = 
 (1) Mary, daughter of Anthony Dormer, son of the 
 first Lord Dormer, and by her had issue. He = (2) 
 
 * This lady, during the Protectorate, resided with her children at Led well 
 Park, Oxon, her husband, Sir Charles, Viscount Carington, being abroad. 
 The Calendar for compounding, under date August 1650, narrates thus : 
 "The Lady Elizabeth, wife, begs allowance of her fifths of her husband's 
 sequestered estates in the counties of Warwick, Leicester, Oxford, Salop, and 
 Lincoln. Her son Francis forwards the petition. Carryl, Charles, Ann, 
 Mary, Lucy children of Sir Charles Smyth beg discharge of lands in 
 Leicestershire, settled on Sir John Ford of Harting (Sir John being a relative 
 of the Carryls). Date 1652. Granted to the children under age, and to the 
 others on taking the oath of abjuration." Charles, second son of Francis 
 Smith, Esq. of Acton, Salop, was buried at Kidlington, set. 9 years, 1722, M.I.
 
 CARRINGTONS, CARINGTONS, ETC. 89 
 
 Anne, daughter of William Byerly of Belgrave, but 
 by her had no issue. 
 
 (2) Edmund of Queeniborough (1615-94) = Mary 
 Tipping, and had issue Francis, and others. 
 
 Sir Thomas Smith, the fourth son of George of 
 Queeniborough = (1) Jane, daughter of S. Erdes- 
 wick ; (2) Mary, daughter of M. Powtrell, and dying 
 1646, left issue : (1) George of Ashby Folville = 1659, 
 Dorothy, daughter of Henry Turville of Aston Flam- 
 vill ; (2) Thomas married Hannah Payne ; (3) Robert 
 of Als worth, Notts. = (1) Sarah, daughter of William 
 Smith of Strelley ; (2) Naomi, daughter of Thos. Blood, 
 Esq., by whom he had a son, William of Plumtree (1699- 
 1795) = Hannah, daughter of William Cox of Bees ton, 
 leaving, with others, Richard of Beeston (1748-1810) 
 = Phoebe, daughter of Geo. Rhodes of Hucknell 
 Torkard, and by her, with others, had Richard of 
 Beeston (1718-1848) = Anne, daughter of B. Hanbury 
 of Bridgnorth, and by her had Richard, who resumed 
 the name of Carington in addition to Smith, and 
 dying in 1901 was buried at Ashby Folville, being 
 Lord of the Manor. He married (1) Elizabeth, 
 daughter of Thos. Stroud of Clewer, and by her had 
 (1) Hubert H. (b. 1851) = Elizabeth P., daughter of 
 J. Stallard, Esq., of Worcester, and has issue ; (2) 
 Richard of Gt. Malvern (b. 1852), Barrister-at-law of 
 the Inner Temple = Alice S., daughter of E. Conder, 
 Esq., of Colwall, and has issue ; (3) Elizabeth A. = 
 Lieut. -Col. A. H. Holme; (4) Emily S. = G. E. Giles, 
 Esq., of Bonchurch, who died 1888, leaving issue. 
 Mr Smith Carington, who was High Sheriff of 
 Leicestershire, 1900 = (2) Patty, third daughter of 
 Edward Leader- Williams, Esq., of Diglis, Worcester. 
 She died s.p. 1894. 
 
 Arms : Quarterly 1 and 4 sa. on a bend arg. 3 
 lozenges of the first ; 2 and 3 arg. a cross gu. between 
 4 peacocks proper. Crests : (1) Out of a ducal
 
 90 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 coronet or, a unicorn's head arg. , armed and crined or. 
 (2) A peacock's head erased proper ducally gorged or. 
 Motto : Fides semper firma. 
 
 It will be noticed in the above pedigree that the 
 link with the old Carington stock occurs thus : 
 
 George of Ashby Folville. 
 
 Sir Francis =Markham. Sir Thomas = Jane Erdeswick. 
 
 | 4th son. 
 
 Sir Charles, Viscount Carington. 
 
 Robert of Alsworth = (2) Naomi Blood. 
 3rd son. 
 
 I 
 
 William of Plumtree = Cox. 
 
 It is a coincidence, and one with which genealogists 
 are continually confronted, that in the registers of the 
 same parish are found names identical, yet not of the 
 same blood. Thus the registers of Plumtree, Notts, 
 are full of the Cropwell Boteler yeomen Smiths. 
 Nevertheless, some years after their departure from 
 the parish, a gentleman bearing their name, though 
 really Carington, becomes a resident landowner. It 
 was probably this fact that caused Mr Augustus Smith 
 to reject the Smith- Carington pedigree, assuming ap- 
 parently that every Smith of Plumtree must be allied 
 to Cropwell. Quod non constat. 
 
 By the courtesy of Father Morrall of Downside, 
 O.S.B., I have before me a pedigree of the Caringtons 
 differing somewhat from the above, which, however, I 
 take it, is the revised account. Briefly, this pedigree, 
 compiled by Mr Fletcher in his Leicestershire Pedi- 
 grees and Royal Descents, runs thus : (1) Hamo, (2) 
 William (living 1118), (3) Sir Jordan, (4) Thomas 
 (living in 1220), (5) Sir Mychell (standard-bearer to 
 Eichard Cceur-de-Lion in 1191), (6) William, (7) Sir 
 William, (8) Sir John, (9) Sir William (knighted at 
 Sluys, 1340), (10) Sir Thomas (knighted by the Black 
 Prince), (11) John, who assumed the name of Smyth.
 
 CARRINGTONS, CARINGTONS, ETC. 91 
 
 The royal descent, through the Moretons, runs thus : 
 
 Alfred the Great = Elswitha Muchel of Mercia. 
 
 Edward the Elder = Elgiva Sigeline. 
 Edmund = Elgiva. 
 
 Edgar = Elf ritha Ordager. 
 
 Ethelred, the Unready = Elgiva Thorold. 
 I 
 
 Uchtred = Elgiva, dau. of King Ethelred. 
 
 Algitha, dau. of Uchtred = Maldred Fitzcrinan. 
 
 Cospatric Fitzcrinan, Earl of Northumberland = . . . 
 
 Dolphin = Adele Flambert. 
 Maldred Fitzdolphin= .. 
 
 Robert Fitzmaldred = Isabel, dau. of Sir Geoffrey Nevill. 
 
 Geoffrey, assumed the name of Nevill, 1257= Mabel, dau. of Thomas De Monte 
 
 Begonis. 
 
 John Nevill of Holt = Maud Murdock. 
 
 I 
 
 Jollan, a Justice Itinerant = Amphillis Rolleston. 
 
 Sir Thos. Nevill of Holt = Cecilie, dau. of Sir Guy Blanchminster, Lord of Scilly . 
 Sir William Nevill = Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Thos. Fencotes. 
 
 Isabel Nevill = Sir Robert Woodford of Ashby Folville. 
 
 Thomas Woodford = Alice, dau. of Sir L. Berkeley. 
 
 I 
 
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 William Woodford = Anne, dau. of Simon Norwich of Bringhurst. 
 Margaret Woodford = Thomas Moreton 
 
 (ob. 1507). 
 
 (ob. 1516). 
 
 John Moreton (1499-1521) = Elena, dau. of Attorney-Gen. Roper. 
 
 Mary Moreton = Francis Smyth of Ashby Folville and Wootton Wawen.
 
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 CARRINGTONS, CARINGTONS, ETC. 93 
 
 This is one of the ancient Roman Catholic families 
 of England, and through their alliance with the Hoi- 
 fords, they hold the seat of the yet more ancient 
 house of Carington, also Roman Catholic. They were 
 largely instrumental in erecting the beautiful Roman 
 Catholic seminary at Ushaw, in the county of Dur- 
 ham. The elder co-heiress of the ancient house of 
 Lee of Langley found a distinguished representative 
 in Assheton Smith of Vaynol and Tedworth (vide that 
 line). 
 
 From a pedigree of Smyth, Lord Carington, in a 
 work entituled "The Benedictines of Ghent," pub- 
 lished at Oulton, Staffs., the following shows the link 
 connecting the two great Roman houses of Wootton 
 Wawen and Acton Burnell e.g. 
 
 Sir Francis Smyth = Anne Markham. 
 of Quenington 
 (ob. 1629) 
 (Query, Queeni- 
 borough ?) 
 
 Charles, Lord Eliza Carryl. Others. 
 
 Carington 
 
 1665). 
 
 Francis, Lord Car- Charles, Ld. C., Carryl =... Frances, Abbess Others. 
 
 ington, s.p. 
 
 of Ghent. 
 
 Grace Carington = Sir R. Smythe of Acton B., 
 whose brother, Sir John 
 S., = Constantia Blount, 
 and was father of Sir Ed- 
 ward Smythe. 
 
 Constantia Smith = (2) Peter Holford of 
 
 (or Smythe) 
 
 Wootton Wawcn. 
 
 Catherine Holford (ob. 
 1831) = Sir Edward 
 Smythe. 
 
 ARMS OF SMYTH : Sa. 3 roses arg. 
 
 CREST : A buck's head erased gorged with a chaplel of laurel. attppr. 
 
 MOTTO : Begi semper fidelis.
 
 94 
 
 The devolution of the Wootton Wawen estate is 
 by no means clear. Burke makes Sir Richard, the 
 second Bart., marry Grace, daughter of Carryl Smith 
 (or more exactly Smyth), and die s.p. 
 
 The name Constantia evidently came into the 
 family from the Blounts of Sodington, but, according 
 to the published pedigree, Constantia, daughter of 
 Sir John = Marmaduke Langdale, and not Peter Hoi- 
 ford. The parentage therefore of Constantia, who 
 married Mr Holford, remains a mystery. Probably 
 the Holfords had purchased Wootton Wawen, but if 
 the Smythes and_ Smyths (Carington) are to be linked 
 in blood, this Constantia must be identified. In 
 treating Carryl Carington as Smyth, or Smith, Burke 
 overlooks the fact that the first Lord C. dropped his 
 pseudo-patronymic and reverted to the ancestral Car- 
 ington. Carryl therefore was Carington, and by no 
 means Smyth, still less Smith. Vide footnote, p. 87. 
 
 The Smythes possess the following Royal descent : 
 
 Henry III. = Eleanor Berenger. 
 
 Edward I. = Eleanor of Castile. 
 
 Elizth. Plantagenet= Humphry, E. of Hereford. 
 
 Lady Eleanor de Bohun= James, 1st E. of Ormonde. 
 
 James, 2nd E. of Ormonde = Elizabeth, dau. of Sir John Darcy. 
 
 James, 3rd E. of Ormonde = Anne, dau. of John, 5th Lord Welles, by Margaret, 
 dau. of John, Lord Mowbray, by Lady Elizth. 
 Segrave, and granddau. of Lady Joan Planta- 
 genet, granddau. of Edmund Plantagenet, brother 
 of Henry III.* 
 
 James, 4th E. of Ormonde = Joan, dau. of Gerald, E. of Kildare. 
 
 Lady Elizabeth Butler = John, Earl of Shrewsbury.
 
 CARRINGTONS, CARINGTONS, ETC. 95 
 
 I 
 
 Lady Anne Talbot=Sir Henry Vernon of Tong. 
 Elizabeth Vernon = Sir Robert Corbet. 
 
 Jane Corbet = Thomas Lee of Langley. 
 Richard Lee of Langley = Eleanor Wrottesley. 
 
 Humphry Lee = Margaret, dau. of Richard fCorbett. 
 
 Sir Richard Lee = Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Edward Allen. 
 
 I 
 
 Mary Lee = Sir Edward Smythe. 
 
 * Inasmuch as Lady Elizth. Segrave was granddaughter of Thomas Planta- 
 genet, E. of Norfolk, son of Edw. I.; and Lord Welles was descended, 
 through Bardolph, Damory, and De Clare from Joan of Acre, daughter of 
 Edw. I., there is a quadruple descent through the Corbets from Henry III. 
 for the Sraythe family. Vide "A Record of the Redes," p. 91. 
 
 t Another account calls him Reginald, Justice of the King's Bench.
 
 CHAPTER VI 
 
 ENGLISH PEDIGREES 
 ASSHETON SMITH. 
 
 . . . Smith of S. Tedworth, Hants. 
 
 Right Hon. John (1658-1723), 
 Speaker of the House of Com- 
 mons and Chancellor of the 
 Exchequer. 
 
 John. 
 
 A dau. = Assheton of 
 Ashley Hall. 
 
 Thomas Assheton. 
 
 I 
 
 Mary = Hon. ,R. S. Herbert, son 
 of the 8th E. of Pem- 
 broke. 
 
 Thomas Assheton = Elizabeth, d. of Watkin 
 Wynn, of Voelas. 
 
 Thomas, M. P. = Matilda, 
 s.p. d. of W. 
 
 Webber, 
 of Brin- 
 field. 
 
 William, R.N., Jane. Elizabeth = W. B. Astley, 
 died at Traf al- Esq. , brother 
 
 gar. of Sir John 
 
 Astley. 
 
 Mary = R. G. Duff, Esq. 
 
 George W. Duff Charles G. = Hon. M. F., Henry. Louisa A. =Hon. H. C., 
 Assheton Smith, (b. 1851). d. of 2d Lord son of .,:,.,.. 
 
 of Vaynol Vivian. Charles, 
 
 (b. 1848). 2nd Lord 
 
 Vivian.
 
 ENGLISH PEDIGREES 97 
 
 SMITH OF LONG ASHTON, BART. LATER SMYTH. 
 
 [Vide Visitation of Somerset, 1623, and Visitation of Cheshire, 1580.] 
 From John Smith, of Aylberton, Glos. temp. Hen. VI. came : 
 
 Hugh = Beekhaw. Matthew = Jane Ty ther. 
 
 Elizabeth = Wm. Morgan, of Llanbarnan, 
 Abbey, Mon. 
 
 Sir Hugh of Long = Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Thos. Gorges, and sister of 
 
 Ashton. 
 
 Lord Gorges. 
 
 Thomas = Florence, dau. of Helen = Sir F. Rogers. Mary = Sir Thos. Smith 
 ' John, Lord of Halkerton. 
 
 Poulett. 
 
 Sir Hugh, created Bart. 1661 = Elizabeth, dau. of John Ashburnham. 
 
 I 
 
 Sir John = a dau. of Sir Samuel Astry of Henbury, Glos. 
 
 Sir John=... Pym, of Hugh. Arabella =Ewd. Gore Florence = ( 1) Pigott, 
 Oxford. (whence = (2) Sir Jar- 
 
 the Gore 
 Langtons). 
 
 rit Smyth, 
 Bart., M. P. 
 
 Sir John Hugh Smyth, 2d Bart. = (1757) Eliz'th, Thomas = Jane, dau. of 
 
 dau. of H. 
 Woolnough. 
 
 Joseph Whit- 
 church. 
 
 Sir Hugh, = Margt., dau. of Sir John, 4th Florence = (1799) John Upton. 
 3rd Bart. Bishop Wilson, Bart., sp. took the ' 
 
 of Bristol. name of 
 
 Smyth. 
 
 Thos. Upton = (1829) Eliza, dau. of Col. Way, of Denham Place. 
 
 Thos. Sir J. H. Greville Smyth, Eliza J. Florence = Clement Cottrell 
 
 (1830-48). created Bart. 1859. Dormer, of 
 
 Rousham. 
 
 ARMS: Gu. on chevron arg. between 3 cinqutfoils of the Snd, S leopards' facts m. 
 CRKST : A griffin's head erased gu. gorged with a collar gemel, beaked and 
 
 eared or. 
 MOTTO : Qui Capit Capitur. 
 
 G
 
 98 
 
 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 SMITH OF ISLEWOKTH, BARTS. 
 
 (1) Mary Allen. = Alderman James Smith = (2) Sarah, dau. of 
 
 of London, and also of 
 Hammersmith, where 
 are M.Is, to his de- 
 scendants. 
 
 Issue. 
 
 Robt. Cotton of W. 
 Bergholt. 
 
 (1) Anne, dau 
 Wm. Wase of 
 Datchet. 
 
 . of = Sir John, Knight, 
 
 Alderman 
 Sheriff of 
 City. 
 
 and 
 the 
 
 = (2) Jane, dau. of Robert Deane. 
 
 James, 
 s.p. 
 
 Sir John, created Bart. 1694, Mary Eyles. 
 Gentleman of the Privy 
 Chamber to King William 
 and Queen Anne. 
 
 Sir John, 
 ob. 1760. 
 
 Charles = Anne, dau of W. 
 Williamson, Ser- 
 jeant-at-Arms. 
 
 Anne = Legh Masters. Rebecca = Orchard. 
 
 Elizth. =H. Hawley. 
 2 others. 
 
 ARMS : Quarterly. 1 and 4. Az. a lion rampant or on a chief arg. a mullet 
 gules between 3 torteaux. 2 and 3. Gu., 2 chevronels within a 
 bordure arg. 
 
 SMITH OF EDMONDTHOKPE AND WITHCOTE, OB 
 WITHCOCK, BARTS. 
 
 [ Vide Visitation of Leicester, 1624 ; Visitation of London, 1568 ; 
 and Visitation of Northants, 1618.] 
 
 The name of this House was Heriz or Harris, and one tradition links them 
 to the ancient Cuerdley stock, whence the Smiths of Hough, of Oxford, etc. 
 William Heriz, temp. Henry VII,, assumed the name of Smith, and had a 
 grant of arms 1499. He married Catharine Ashby. His son was John Smith 
 (ob. 1546) of Withcote, whose elder son by Dorothy Cave, Roger, had a
 
 ENGLISH PEDIGREES 
 
 99 
 
 grant of crest in 1568,* and married Frances, dau. of Sir T. Griffin; and 
 whose fourth son, Erasmus, = (2dly) Margery, sister of Lord Burleigh of 
 Husbands Bosworth, and widow of Roger Cave. 
 
 (Temp. Eliz.) ... Smith = lstly, ... Bydd, or Baiard. 
 
 (1) Jane, dau. of = Sir Roger, = (2) Anne Goodman. 
 Sir Edmund knighted 
 
 Heron. 1635. 
 
 Henry (silver-tongue) 
 (1550-91). 
 
 Ed ward = Elizabeth, dau. of 
 
 ob. vit. 
 patr. 
 
 Sir Ed. Heron. 
 
 Sir Edward, = (1) Constantia, dau. of Sir Wm 
 
 created Bart. 
 1661. (ob. 
 1707.) 
 
 Spencer of Yarnton. 
 
 Sir Edward, = Olivia, dau. of Thomas Pepys 
 2d Bart. , of Merton Abbey. 
 
 s.p. 
 
 Alderman - 
 Erasmus 
 (1611-91) 
 of Weald 
 Hall. 
 [Vide 
 Granger's 
 "Bio- 
 graphical 
 Diction- 
 ary," vol. 
 Hi] 
 
 = Mary, dau. Roger = Anna, dau. 
 of Lord of Thos. 
 Coleraine. Cotton. 
 
 1 
 Anne = Sir 
 John Nor- 
 wich. 
 
 Mary = Sir 
 Wm. Dud- 
 ley, Bart. 
 
 Roger of Sir John (1657-1726), 
 Frolesworth. a Judge of the Com- 
 | mon Pleas. 
 Edward, 
 M.P. for 
 Leicestershire. 
 
 Hugh = Dorothy, dau. of Dacres Barrett Lennard 
 (ob. of Belhouse. 
 
 1745). 
 
 Lucy = James Lord Strange, eldest son 
 of the Earl of Derby. (Ob. 1747.) 
 
 Dorothy = Hon. John Barry 
 (whence Smith - Barry of 
 Fota and Marbury Hall). 
 
 Henry Smith, the Regicide (1620-68), has been assigned to the Withcote 
 stock. I can only conjecture, from the circumstance of his being described as 
 "the last owner of Withcote," that he was a grandson of Roger, the elder 
 brother of Erasmus (1), who married Lord Burleigh's sister. The Regicide 
 seems to have been regarded as a dupe or fool, and to have been ignored by his 
 kinsmen of Edmondthorpe. Vide Chapter on "Celebrities of the Name." 
 
 * The original grant of crest is in the possession of Mr John J. Smyth of 
 Rathcoursey, who claims descent from Roger's next brother, Francis. [ Vide 
 Visitation of Leicester, 1624.]
 
 100 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 This line has a special interest in having given not 
 only the blood but the name also of Smith to subse- 
 quent Earls of Derby. The fourteenth Earl, Prime 
 Minister, and Chancellor of the University of Oxford, 
 had already dropped the "Smith" from his patro- 
 nymic, but notwithstanding this, his political oppon- 
 ents in the University, by way of ridiculing his 
 pretensions, utilised the bidding prayer as a vehicle 
 for satire. The author has heard from the pulpit of 
 St Mary's, the University Church, the words, "Ye 
 shall pray for Edward Geoffrey Smith, our honoured 
 Lord and Chancellor." Needless to add, the great 
 scholar, orator, and leader of the Tory party treated 
 this specimen of mendacious malice with the contempt 
 it deserved.* 
 
 Arms of Smith of Edmondthorpe and Withcote, 
 Barts. : Gu., on a chevron or between 3 bezants as 
 many crosses pat^e fitchee sa. 
 
 SMYTH OF REDCLIFFE, BAKTS. 
 
 Sir William Smyth, = (1) Margaret, dau. of Sir Alexander Den ton. 
 created a Baronet = (2) A dau. of Sir N. Hobart, Master in Chancery. 
 1661, was M.P. in 
 the Long Parlia- 
 ment for Bucks. , 
 and a firm Royalist. 
 
 William, Sir Thomas, 
 
 ob. s. p., 2nd Bart., 
 
 vit. patr. ob. s.p. 1732. 
 
 * Mr Hugh Smith, who died in 1745, by the terms of his will, compelled 
 both his sons-in-law viz. The Hon. John Barry, son of Lord Barrymore, and 
 Lord Strange, heir to the Earldom of Derby to assume the name of Smith. 
 The Stanleys, as already appears, shed that suffix after two generations, but 
 the Smith-Barrys have retained it to the present day, as believers in the star 
 of Smith would allege, with admirable discretion, the name of Smith giving a 
 guarantee of good fortune.
 
 ENGLISH PEDIGREES 
 
 101 
 
 THE NON-JUKOK SMITHS 
 
 Matthew (1589-1640), annotator of Littleton's -... 
 Tenures, Barrister of the M. Temple, author 
 of " The Country Squire," a ballad opera, and 
 of "Masquerade du ciel," a strong Royalist 
 and champion of the Royal Prerogative. 
 
 John of Knaresborough, fought under 
 Prince Rupert at Marston Moor, ex 
 parte Regis. 
 
 William R. of =(1657) Elizth., 
 
 Lowther. 
 
 dau. of Giles 
 Wetherall of 
 Stockton. 
 
 John (1659-1715), =Mary, dau. of Wm. Cooper Joseph, Fellow and Provost 
 
 Preb. of Durham 
 and R. of Gates- 
 head, D.D., St 
 John's College, 
 Cambridge. 
 
 of Scarborough, whose sister of Queen's College, Oxford 
 married Hilkiah Bedford, (1670-1750). [See his pedi- 
 the Non-juror Bishop. gree, infra.] 
 
 George (1693-1753), -Christian, dau. of Bishop Hilkiah Bedford, 
 Non-juror Bishop Non-juror (1702-81). 
 
 of Durham. 
 
 John, M.D., of Burn Hall, = (1750) dau. of Nich. Shuttleworth 
 
 Durham (ob. 1752). 
 
 of Elvet, in Durham. 
 
 George of Piercefield, Mon. = Juliet, dau. of Richd. Mott of Carleton, Suff. 
 
 Sir Charles Felix. 
 
 Elizth. (1776-1806). 
 
 Postumus = Dau. of Sir George William, M. D. , George, Chaplain- 6 other 
 
 of Old Wheler of Charing, of Leeds (ob. General (ob. 1725). sons. 
 
 Burn Hall 1729). 
 (ob. 1725). 
 
 For this pedigree vide Lathbury's "History of Non- jurors" and the 
 archives of Queen's College, Oxford. The Rev. Thomas Smith, one of the 
 ejected Fellows of Magdalen, 1688, and R. of Standlake (1638-1710), may 
 have been of this family. Although reinstated to his fellowship of Magdalen, 
 he became a Non-juror, and in 1692, for refusing to take the oath, was de- 
 prived. He became a tutor in the family of John Cotton, and died in the 
 house of Bishop Hilkiah Bedford. It should be added that he was Vice- 
 President of Magdalen in 1683, and Bursar in 1686. He had previously, i.e. 
 in 1658, served as chaplain to Sir D. Harvey, Ambassador to the Porte. He 
 graduated in 1661 from Queen's College.
 
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 104 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 The crest, so Betham affirms, was assumed by Sir 
 Thomas Smijth, Secretary of State to King Edward 
 VI. and to Queen Elizabeth, to commemorate his 
 good fortune in escaping vivi-cremation under the 
 regime of Queen Mary and Bishop Bonner. Prior 
 to that date the family crest was an eagle with an 
 ostrich feather in its claws, suggestive of the De 
 Clarendon descent. It would appear, according to 
 Grazebrook, that the Secretary of State spelt his 
 name ''Smith," or more probably, according to the 
 fashion of the period, Smyth. An Elizabethan con- 
 ceit caused the two upper strokes of the " y " to be 
 dotted, thereby metamorphosing Smyth into Smijth. 
 The spelling may be an affectation, but it is one 
 consecrated by the usage of over three centuries. If 
 the family would escape the small witticisms of the 
 Philistine, it might with propriety revert to the more 
 ancient and less eccentric patronymic, De Clarendon. 
 
 SMITH OF GEEAT FENTON 
 
 [Vide Visitation of Cheshire, 1580; Visitation of Oxford, 1624.] 
 
 ARMS : Qu., two bars wavy erm. on a chief or a demilion rampant issuant sa. 
 armed and langued gu. 
 
 : An ostrich, in the beak a horseshoe proper. 
 
 The Right Rev. William Smith, D.D., Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, 
 consecrated 1493, is stated by Burke ("Landed Gentry") to have had two sons. 
 Unless, as is practically impossible, these sons were illegitimate, the statement 
 carries error on the face of it. These alleged sons, Edmund and John, were 
 apparently heirs to the Bishop's estate, and either nephews or cousins. From 
 Edmund, by his wife Catherine, dau. of Sir W. Brereton, came Sir Thomas Smith 
 of Chester, father of Sir Lawrence Smith of Hough. The younger brother 
 John had a son William, whose grandson John in 1614 obtained a confirma- 
 tion of arms from St George Norroy, King-at-Arms. By Alice, dau. of H. 
 Weston of Eyle in Madeley, he had
 
 ENGLISH PEDIGREES 
 
 105 
 
 Thomas = Dorothy, dau. of William Yonge, Esq. , 
 
 (b. 1584). 
 
 of Keynton. 
 
 Thomas (ob. 1694) = Elizabeth Gregson, s.p. Samuel=... 
 
 Samuel of = (1696) Mary James Jeremiah. Sarah. Elizabeth = Joseph Wood. 
 Hanley. of Chester. 
 
 Thomas (ob. 1729) = heiress of Charles Nicholls, Esq., of Gt. Fenton. 
 
 (1) Margaret, = Jeremiah, High = (2) Elizabeth, Thomas. Sarah. Margaret. 
 
 sister of the Sheriff of Staffs. 
 1st Earl St (ob. 1792). 
 Vincent, s.p. 
 
 dau. of J. 
 Jervis, Esq., of 
 Darlaston. 
 
 John, High Sheriff of = Elizabeth, dau. of Grace = Rev. W. Greenwood 
 
 Staffs., 1816 (ob. 1840). 
 
 John Turner, Esq. 
 
 of Bath. 
 
 Charles John = (1829) Frances H., dau. of William H. Rev. F. J., Pre- 
 
 (1804-74). 
 
 J. Atkinson, Esq., of 
 Maple Hayes. 
 
 (1806-23). bendary of Wells 
 (1808-84). 
 
 Charles William = (1877) Alice E., Constance Ellen=(1872) Rev. G. A. 
 
 Jervis. 
 
 dau. of Rev. E. Elizabeth. 
 Baskerville Mynors. 
 
 Festing,V. of 
 Clifton, Derby. 
 
 Reginald Baskerville (b. 1880). Beatrice F. G. 
 
 SMITH OF NOTTINGHAM AND OF MANSFIELD, 
 CO. NOTTS, ETC. 
 
 ARMS OF HORTON-SMITH and LUMLEY-SMITH : Arg., 2 chevronels inverted 
 between 2 demi-gryphons couped respecting each other in chief, and as 
 many battle-axes in saltire in base, all sa. MANTLING : Sa. and arg. 
 
 CKEST : On a wreath of the colours, in front of a mount vert, thereon a grey- 
 hound couchant ppr. , two battle-axes in saltire or. 
 
 MOTTO : Pret a tressaillir. 
 
 From John Smith the younger of Cropwell Boteler, in the parish of Titheby, 
 co. Notts (b. 1641, and baptised 28th March 1641 at Titheby aforesaid), vide 
 supra, p. 70, descended apparently Richard Smith (1729-1825),* lace-manufac- 
 turer of Nottingham, who acquired considerable estate in Mansfield, where, 
 after a long and prosperous career, he was buried on the 7th Jan. 1825, at 
 the age of 95. Will and codicil proved, April 5, 1825, in the Peculiar Court 
 of the manor of Mansfield. This gentleman is stated to have been married 
 twice. He left issue : 
 
 The Registers of St Mary's, Nottingham, contain the following entries : 
 July 20, 1724 : John Smith and Sarah Stoaks married, both of this parish, 
 by banns. 
 
 January 3, 1727 : Richard, son of John Smith and Sarah his Avife, baptised.
 
 106 
 
 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 Richard (1771-1839), of Nottingham and Mansfield, co. 
 Notts, of the City of London, and of Stoke Newington, co. 
 Middlesex, Merchant = (1794) Sarah, only child of Joseph 
 Horton of Leicester and Nottingham, Merchant (descend- 
 ant of the Hortons of Mbwsley, co. Leicester), by his first 
 wife, Hannah nte Heritage (ob. 1832, set. 63). 
 
 John of Mans- 
 field (ob. 1838, 
 set. 74) = Ann nt& 
 ... (ob. 1838, 
 set. 84). 
 
 Richard (1798-1858),: 
 of the City of Lon- 
 don, of Guildford 
 Street, W.C., and of 
 Littlehampton, co. 
 Sussex, Merchant. 
 
 (1828) Elizabeth, sister 
 of William Golden Lum- 
 ley, Q.C., LL.M., and 
 Fellow of Trin. Hall, 
 Camb., dau. of William 
 Lximley of the City of 
 London, Architect and 
 Surveyor, andgrand-dau. 
 of Edward Lumley of 
 Gt. Dalby, co. Leicester, 
 scion of the Family of 
 Lumley whence the 
 Lumleys, Earls of Scar- 
 borough (1797-1884). 
 
 Frederick 
 
 (1805-18) 
 
 s.p. 
 
 Henry = , 
 (1813-42) 
 s.p. 
 
 Richard = 
 HORTON-SMITH 
 (b. 1831), K.C., 
 M.A., Fellow 
 of St John's, 
 Camb., Bencher, 
 Senior Trustee, 
 and (1902) Mas- 
 ter of Library, 
 of Lincoln's 
 Inn, etc., etc. 
 
 = (1864) Marilla (nde 
 Baily), direct de- 
 scendant of the 
 illustrious James 
 Graham, 5th Earl 
 and 1st Marquis 
 of Montrose (in the 
 Peerage of Scotland), 
 and dau. of John 
 Baily, Q.C., M.A., 
 Fellow of St John's, 
 Camb. , Bencher of 
 Lincoln's Inn, and 
 Counsel to Univ. of 
 Cambridge (b. 1838). 
 
 1 
 LUMLEY - SMITH = 
 (b. 1834), K.C., 
 M.A., Fellow of 
 Trin. Hall, 
 Camb., Bencher 
 of the Inner 
 Temple, Judge of 
 City of London 
 Court, and some- 
 time Judge of 
 Westminster 
 County Court, 
 etc., etc. 
 
 = (1874) Jessie 
 Croll, dau. and 
 co-h. of Sir 
 Thomas Gab- 
 riel, Bart. 
 (1851-79) [vide 
 G. W. Mar- 
 shall's Family 
 of Comber- 
 bach, 1866]. 
 
 
 Percival (b. 1867), F.R.C.P., 
 M.A., M.D., and Fellow of St 
 John's, Camb., etc. = (1895) Lucy 
 Josephine Hartley, dau. of Lieut. - 
 Col. Joseph Hartley, LL.D., and 
 Fellow - Commoner of St John's, 
 Camb., J.P. co. Kent, J.P. and 
 D.L. West Riding, co. York. 
 
 Lionel (b. 1871), 
 M.A., Fellow and 
 late M c MahonLaw 
 Student of St 
 John's, Camb., 
 Barrister of Lin- 
 coln's Inn, Hon. 
 V.-P. Navy 
 League, etc. 
 
 Raymond John(1873- 
 99), M.A., M.B., 
 and Scholar of St 
 John's, Camb. , Univ. 
 Scholar of St Thomas' 
 Hospital, London, 
 etc. ; s.p. The Ray- 
 mond Horton-Smith 
 Prize in the Univ. of 
 Camb. , founded in his 
 memory, 1900. 
 
 Percival Hubert Graham Audrey Gwendolen 
 
 (b. 1896). (b. 1900). 
 
 This family, after having been founded in manufacture and carried forward 
 by commerce, has further achieved success, as well in the University of Cam- 
 bridge, as also in the professions of Law and of Medicine. That the same 
 family should have won four fellowships, a scholarship, and four university- 
 prizes within little more than a quarter of a century will surely find but few 
 parallels in either university. It recalls the triumphs of the Palmers, Fabers, 
 nd Wilberforces at Oxford in which university, if at the same epoch, the
 
 ENGLISH PEDIGREES 
 
 107 
 
 Charlea=... Sarah (ob. =(1787) John Barlow of Mans- 
 1838, set. 74). I field (ob. 1836, set. 70). 
 
 Mary = 
 ... Beck. 
 
 Richard. 
 
 John. 
 
 Charles 
 Smith. 
 
 William. 
 
 Sarah =(1816) Matthew Ann = (1826) Nicho- Frances = (1837) George 
 
 (1794- Surteesof Lon- (1796- 
 1819). don, and for- 1879). 
 merly of New- 
 castle - on -Tyne, 
 nephew of Eliza- 
 beth, Countess 
 of Eldon (1790- 
 1825). 
 Mary Augusta 
 (1817-98). 
 s.p. 
 
 Eliza 
 
 (1809- 
 
 10). 
 
 las Mason (1800- Davenport, 
 (ob. 1859, 45). (ob. 1869, 
 set. 67). set. 61). 
 
 Edward Gershom (1838-74), M.A., 
 Trin. Coll., Camb., and M.P. for St 
 Ives, co. Cornwall = (1863) Louisa 
 nee Oxenford (1837-75). 
 
 Vivian Edward Frances Emily Ellen Marie 
 (b. 1870). (1864-79). (ob. 1875). 
 
 John Nicholas, Solicitor ( 1828-84) ; Frai 
 left issue : Barry Willicombe (b. of I 1 
 1868), Solicitor ; and others. mar 
 
 acis,F.R.C.S., Hon. Fellow Mary Ann 
 Ling's Coll., London, etc. ; (b. 1827) ; 
 ried, but ob. s.p. (1837-86). andothers. 
 
 1 
 Hubert 
 Barlow 
 (1837-39). 
 
 Alice Mary (1839-84),= 
 Assoc. Philh. Soc. ; 
 distinguished musician 
 and composer [vide 
 Diet. Nat. Biog., vol. 
 Ivi., 1900, pp. 31 f.]. 
 
 = (1867) Fredk. Meadows- Theresa 
 White, Q.C., M.A., Winifred 
 Fellow of Magd. Coll., (1841-93) 
 Oxford, Bencher of the s.p. 
 Inner Temple, Judge of 
 the Clerkenwell County 
 Court, etc., etc. (1829-98). 
 
 Alice Hilda Alice Ida = 
 (b. 1869). (b. 1868). 
 
 = (1897) Alfred Bray Kempe, 
 M. A. , Scholar of Trin. Coll. , 
 Camb., Barrister of Inner 
 Temple, Chancellor of St 
 Albans, Southwell, and 
 Newcastle, Fellow, Trea- 
 surer, and V. -P., R.S. (b. 
 1849. ) 
 imphrey Meadows (b. 1900). 
 
 Thomas Gabriel (b. Sibyl 
 1879), Etonand Trin. Gabriel 
 Coll., Camb., Lieut, (b. 1875). 
 21st Lancers. 
 
 Alice 
 Gabriel 
 (b. 1876). 
 
 Alfred Hi 
 
 Hubert 
 (1875-81). 
 
 Ethel Marilla,= 
 Associate Roy. 
 Acad. Mus. , 
 London (b. 
 1866). 
 
 = ( 1 900) Herbert Birkett, Edith Gwendolen 
 M.I.Mech.E., fifth son (b. 1869). 
 of John Birkett, Fellow 
 (and sometime Pres. ) 
 R.C.S. [vide J. Foster's 
 Royal Descents]. 
 
 Kathleen Marilla (b. 1901). 
 
 three Smiths, Goldwin, Harris, and Henry John Stephen Smith, achieved the 
 highest academical reputation, none of them were of the same blood, or indeed 
 of the same county. The Raymond Horton-Smith Prize at Cambridge will 
 perpetuate the memory of a young student, who, though passing away in his 
 early prime, had already given promise of distinction ; while the memory of 
 the late Judge Meadows- White's accomplished wife must remain evergreen 
 with all who reverence the art and poetry of music.
 
 108 
 
 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 SMITH OF CKANTOCK, BART. 
 
 John Smith, merchant of London, and of Crantock, in Cornwall, by tradi- 
 tion a cadet of the house of Tredonnick, was created a barone in 1642, and 
 died s.p. 
 
 SMITH OF HOUGH AND HATHEKTON, BARTS. 
 
 [Vide Visitation of Cheshire, 1580, and of Oxford, 1624.] 
 Sir Thomas Smith of Hough, Catherine, dau. of Sir Andrew 
 
 a scion of the house of Cuerd- 
 ley, ob. 1538. [Vide supra, 
 Smith of Cuerdley. ] 
 
 Brereton. 
 
 Sir Lawrence, = (1) Anne, dau. of Thomas 
 Sheriff of Fulleshurst of Crewe ; 
 Cheshire, (2) Jane, dau. of Sir Piers 
 1553. Warburton, and widow 
 of Sir Win. Brereton. 
 
 Ursula = Sir Row- 
 land Stanley. 
 
 Bridget = R. 
 Fulleshurst. 
 
 Lawrence, Sir Thomas = Anne, dau. of 
 s.p. of Hather- Sir Wm. 
 ton, Sheriff Brereton. 
 of Cheshire, 
 1600. 
 
 Edward. Eleanor = 
 Thos. 
 Cowper. 
 
 1 
 Mary=Jas. 
 Hurleston. 
 
 Lawrence = Anne, dau. of Sir Randal 
 Mainwaring. 
 
 Jane = Sir Randal Mainwaring. 
 
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 Sir Thomas, = 
 Sheriff of 
 Cheshire, 
 1623. 
 
 = Mary, dau. of Sir Stephen, = ... 
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 Long Ashton. the Mar- 
 quis of 
 Ormonde. 
 
 
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 created 
 Bart, in 
 1660 
 
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 of Sir John of Bow Cotton of Comber- 
 Pate of Sis- mere ; = (2) Sir 
 sonby. Robt. Holte. 
 
 
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 ob. 1706. s.p. 
 
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 John Pate. Abigail. 
 
 ARMS : Az. 2 bars toavy ermine on a chief or a demilion rampant ta.
 
 109 
 
 SMYTH OF ISFIELD, BARTS. 
 
 [ Vide Visitation of Essex, 1664 ; Berry's Essex Pedigrees, p. 16 ; Visitations 
 of London, 1633, and of Worcester, 1620.] 
 
 Sir Robert Smyth, Bart, of Upton = Judith Walmesley. 
 
 Sir Robert, whence 
 the Barts. of Upton. 
 
 Sir James, knighted by = (l) Mary Peake. 
 
 Charles II., Lord May or. =(2) Elizabeth, dau. of Arthur 
 
 Shirley of Isfield. 
 = (3) Philadelphia, dau. of Sir 
 Wm. Wilson of East- 
 bourne, Bart. 
 
 Sir James of Isfield, created Bart. 1714, = Mirabella, dau. of Sir Robt. Legard, 
 ob. 1717. Master in Chancery. 
 
 Sir Robert = Lady Louisa C. I. Hervey, dau. of John, Earl of Bristol. 
 
 Anne Mirabella H. = W. B. Brand 
 of Polsted. 
 
 Sir Hervey (1734-1811). Fought with 
 General Wolfe at Quebec. Col. Foot 
 Guards, s.p. 
 
 ARMS : Az. 2 bars wavy erm. on a chief or, a demilion issuant sa. 
 CREST : An ostrich head couped in the beak a horseshoe all ppr. 
 
 SMITH OF EARDISTON, BARTS. 
 
 Thomas Smith of Burwaston, Salop =Laetitia Morris of Burford. 
 
 Sir William of Eardiston, created Bart. =(1780) Mary Wheeler of Lambswick. 
 1809 (ob. 1821). 
 
 Sir Christopher Sidney = (1) Mary, dau. of Cecilia M. = (1816) V. W. Wheeler 
 
 (1798-1839). 
 
 Rev. R. Foley 
 (ob. 1833). 
 = (2) Mrs Murphy 
 (ob. 1840). 
 
 of Nash Court. 
 
 Sir William = (1843) Susan, Edward Mary S. = Elizth. =(1853) Helen. 
 
 (b. 1823) 
 
 dau. of Sir (b. 1826). (1846) S. Charles J. 
 W.G.Parkes, J. Heath- Shaw. 
 
 Bart. cote. 
 
 W. S. Win- 
 wood 
 (1844-45). 
 
 I 
 Christopher 
 
 S. W. 
 (b. 1846). 
 
 William Charlea 
 G. W. E. W. 
 
 (b. 1847). (b. 1853). 
 
 Mary A. W. Elizth. E. 
 
 ARMS: Sa. a cross flory or on a chief engrailed erm., a demilion issuant 
 between 2 cross crosslets gu. 
 
 CREST : A greyhound couchant sa. collared and line reflexed over the back or, 
 the body charged with a cross crosslet of the last, the dexter paict 
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 SMYTH OF CUDDESDON 
 
 Edward Smith, of Abingdon, Barrister of the Middle Temple, by some 
 said to have begun life as a tailor = ... 
 
 The Rev. Sebastian Smythe, D. D., = Dorothy, dau. of Arabella = Charles, E. of 
 Canon of Ch. Ch. (ob. 1674). I Dr JohnWeston. Nottingham. 
 
 Sir Sebastian Smythe of Cuddesdon, = Grace, heiress of Edward Astyne, grand- 
 
 High Sheriff of Oxon, 1734. 
 
 son of William A. of Oxley, Staffs. 
 
 Grace = Bernard Gardiner, D.D., son of Sir Edward, M.A., Senior Student 
 W. Gardiner, Bart., Warden of of Ch. Ch., (ob. 1714). 
 
 All Souls, whence the Whalley 
 Smythe Gardiners, Barts., (2nd 
 creation), of Roche Court. Mar- 
 ried at Horspath 1712. 
 
 ARMS OF SMITH OF CUDDESDON : Per chevron arg. and sa. S anvils counter- 
 changed. 
 
 CREST : On a mural coronet or an ostrich head erased ppr. , beaked of the first, 
 in the beak a horseshoe arg. 
 
 This coat was entered in the Visitation of 1634- 
 1688 as borne by Richard Smith of Abingdon, author 
 of "The Obituary," an antiquary and genealogist. 
 Sir Sebastian quartered with his own coat that of his 
 mother, Weston viz. Erm., a bird, on a chief az. 3 
 bezants. Anthony A. Wood mentions that Sir Sebas- 
 tian had a residence in Oxford. It would appear to 
 have been an interesting timber house in the Corn- 
 market, which, being then in the tenancy of Messrs 
 Grimbly, grocers, was burnt down in the sixties. 
 
 SMITH OF OLD WINDSOR 
 
 Walter Smith of Old Windsor. 
 
 Christopher of Old Windsor = ... 
 
 Edward of Old Windsor Christopher of James of New Simon of 
 (living in 1671). Buckhurst. Windsor. Westminster. 
 
 ARMS, granted April 21, 1671 : Or, 3 martlets purpured. 
 CREST: A martlet purpured. (Harl. MSS. 1172). 
 H
 
 114 
 
 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 SMITH OF HALESOWEN 
 
 Senior Co-heir of the Barony of Dudley. 
 
 William Smith of Hunnington [said to be of the line of Stoke Prior, whence 
 the Baronets of Upton and Isfield], (ob. 1684). 
 
 William of the Breach ... 
 
 William, 
 ancestor 
 of the 
 Smiths of 
 Bourne 
 Heath. 
 
 Joseph, 
 ancestor of 
 the Smiths of 
 Hunnington. 
 
 Jacob of = 
 Stoke 
 Prior. 
 
 = (1709) Eliza- Elianor = W. Car- Sarah, 
 beth, dau. of dale. 
 John Lowe of 
 Halesowen 
 by Joice, 
 dau. of J. 
 Lea of Hale- 
 sowen (ob. 
 1762). 
 
 William=(1737) Hon. Anne Lea, senior 
 
 (1713-84). 
 
 co-heiress of the 15th Lord 
 Dudley (ob. 1762). 
 
 Mary = (1746) R. Chambers, Esq., 
 of Whitbourne Court, 
 High Sheriff of Here- 
 fordshire, 1793. 
 
 Harry 
 
 Grey nando 
 (ob. (ob. 
 1760), 1794). 
 s.p. 
 
 Ferdi- = ( 1774) Eliza- 
 beth, dau. of 
 Humphrey 
 Lyttelton, 
 Esq. 
 
 Frances = Walter Wood- Anne = Edw. Baker, 
 (ob.,s.p., cock, Esq. Esq., Hill 
 
 1821). Court, Wor- 
 
 cester. 
 
 (1) (1802) Elvira, = Lieut. -Col. =(2) (1830) Elizabeth 
 
 co-heiress of Major- 
 General Knudson 
 (ob. s.p. 1805). 
 
 Ferdinando 
 (1779-1841). 
 
 (ob. 1875), dau. of 
 M. Grazebrook, 
 Esq., of Audnam. 
 
 Captain William 
 (1785-1824), s. p. 
 
 Henry Lyttelton Frances C. = (1803) Captain Marcus J. Annesley, 
 (b. 1787) s.p. nephew of the 1st Earl Annesley. 
 
 6 daus. 
 
 Ferdinando Dudley Lea = (1865) Amy S., dau. of J. H. Leigh, William Lea. 
 (b. 1834). Esq., of Belmont Hall. 
 
 Ferdinando D. W. F. (b. 1872). Charles E. L. (b. 1874). Lilian Amy Lea. 
 
 It will be noted that the derivation of the Barony 
 of Dudley came through the Lea family, thus : 
 William Lea (1677-1741) = Frances, only daughter 
 of Hon. W. Ward, and qud her issue sole heiress of 
 William, Baron Dudley and Ward. Their son, Ferdi- 
 nando Lea, took his seat as Baron Dudley in the
 
 ENGLISH PEDIGREES 
 
 115 
 
 House of Lords, but dying sp., the Barony fell into 
 abeyance among his sisters, Mrs Smith, Mrs 
 Woodcock, Mrs Hervey, Mrs Jordan, and Mrs 
 Briscoe, Mrs Smith being the senior. 
 
 ARMS, LESS QUAKTEBINGS : Two bars wavy erm. on a chief or a demilion 
 rampant issuant sa. 
 
 CREST : An ostrich head quarterly sa. and arg. between 2 wings expanded gu. t 
 in the beak a horseshoe or. 
 
 SMITH OF CUEEDLEY 
 
 [Vide Visitation of Cheshire, 1580, and of Oxford, 1624.] 
 
 Thomas Smith of C. = Katherine, dau. of Sir 
 (ob. 1538.) Andrew Brereton. 
 
 (1) Anne, 
 
 dau. of = Sir La 
 
 wrence = (2) Jane, dau. of 
 
 Ursula = 
 
 Bridget = 
 
 Thos. 
 
 Fuls- 
 
 Sir Piers War- 
 
 Sir Row- 
 
 R. Fuls- 
 
 hurst. 
 
 
 burton, and 
 
 land 
 
 hurst. 
 
 
 
 widow of Sir 
 
 Stanley. 
 
 
 
 
 W. Brereton. 
 
 
 
 Lawrence 
 
 , Sir Thos., = Anne, 
 
 dau. Edward. 
 
 Eleanor = 
 
 Mary= 
 
 ob. 1567. 
 
 Mayor of 
 
 of Sir W. 
 
 Thos. 
 
 John 
 
 v.p. 
 
 Chester, 
 
 Brereton. 
 
 Cowper. 
 
 Hurle- 
 
 B.p. 
 
 1596; 
 
 
 
 
 ston. 
 
 
 Sheriff, 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1600. 
 
 
 
 
 
 Lawrence, = Anne, dau of Sir Randle 
 ob. v.p. Mainwaring the elder. 
 
 Jane = Sir R. Mainwaring 
 the younger. 
 
 Sir T 
 
 Sir Thomas, = Mary, dau. of Sir 
 
 Mayor of 
 Chester, 
 1622; Sher- 
 iff, 1666. 
 
 22 children, 
 inter quos. 
 
 Hugh Smith of 
 Somerset '. e. 
 Long Ashton. 
 
 Stephen, ob. 1665, = Walsgrave, sister 
 Usher to Lord Or- to the wife of 
 monde. the Lord Trea- 
 
 surer Weston. 
 
 Sir Thomas, = Abigail, dau. of Sir John Pate, 
 created 
 Bart, 1660. 
 Ob. 1675. 
 
 Francis Pate, 
 ob. v.p. 
 
 A dau. = R. Lister. 
 
 Mary, 
 s.p. 
 
 Lawrence, 
 ob. ante 
 1675. 
 
 Sir Thomas, 2nd Bart. 
 (ob. sine haerede). 
 
 It is evident that Thomas, ob. 1538, was by no means the first Smith of 
 Cuerdley. But the above pedigree is that supplied by Ormerod.
 
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 SMITH OF SHOKTGROVE AND GEEAT HAUTBOIS 
 
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 (1676-1743). 
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 randson of Henry 
 mith als Heriz of 
 Withcote, the Regicide. 
 
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 (1715-61) I of Beardston. 
 
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 (1757-1822), Private J. Martin, 
 Secy, to William Esq., of Ham 
 Pitt; M.A., Caius Court. (Ob. 
 Coll.,Camb. s. p. 1791.) 
 
 = (2) Mary (1773- 
 1847), co-heir- 
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 Cocks, brother 
 of Chas., first 
 Lord Somers. 
 
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 1861), 
 
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 ENGLISH PEDIGREES 119 
 
 SMITH, NOW DODSWORTH, BART. 
 
 John Smith of Ecclesfield = Priscilla Sylvester, and 
 by her had John of Newland Hall (d. 1746), who = 
 (2) Ann, daughter of Christopher Hodgson, Esq. of 
 Westerton. Their son, John Sylvester Smith (d. 
 1789), was created a baronet in 1784. He = 1761, 
 Henrietta Maria, daughter of J. Dods worth, Esq. of 
 Thornton Watlass, through which lady the family 
 claims descent from King Edward III. By her he 
 had, with others including Sir Charles, third 
 baronet, Sir Edward (1768-1845), who assumed the 
 name of Dodsworth in lieu of Smith. He = 1804, 
 Susannah, daughter of H. Dawkins, Esq. of Stand- 
 lynch, and, dying s.p., was succeeded by his brother, 
 Sir Charles (1775-1857), who = 1805, Elizabeth, daugh- 
 ter of J. Armstrong, Esq., and granddaughter of 
 Cadwallader, ninth Lord Blayney, by whom he had 
 five sons, who died s.p., Sir Mathew, his successor, 
 of whom presently, and Frederick (b. 1822) = 1848, 
 Jane R, daughter of J. Young, Esq. of Westridge, 
 and had issue, a daughter, Rosie A. E. A.; Henrietta 
 M. = Rev. RWhytehead of All Saints, York; Elizabeth 
 = 1 849, J. Tetley, Esq. of Kilgran ; Frances E. = Rev. Dr 
 Le Maistre ; Anna M. = G. Prickett, Esq. ; Catherine 
 = J. Dalton, Esq. of Fillingham Castle; Charlotte S. 
 
 Sir Charles, who was Colonel of the 22nd Light 
 Dragoons, was succeeded by his fourth son, Sir 
 Mathew (1819-1858) = Anne Julia, daughter of 
 Colonel Crowder, C.B., and by her had Sir Charles 
 E., fifth baronet; Mathew Blayney (b. 1856); 
 Frederick C. (b. 1858) ; Henriette. 
 
 ARMS : Quarterly. 1 and 4. Arg. a bend engrailed between 3 annulets 
 gu. Dodsworth. 2 and 3. Per sal tire arg. and ea. 2 trefoils slipped in pale 
 gu. Smith. 
 
 CRESTS: (1) Dodsworth A dexter cubit arm in chain mail or, the hand 
 proper grasping a broken tilting spear, the broken part imbued gu. (2) Smith 
 Out of a ducal coronet or a boar's head couped at the neck az. , crined or. 
 
 MOTTO : Pro lege senatuque rege.
 
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 122 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 It will be noted that Hulcote and Aspley came to 
 this family through Charlotte, co-heiress of the Rev. 
 E. Hervey. In 1784 he had purchased Aspley House, 
 built in 1680 by Sir Christopher Wren, Hulcote 
 Manor having fallen into decay. On the decease of 
 Mrs Downes, the senior co-heiress, Aspley passed 
 to her eldest son, Major C. Villiers Downes. It is 
 panelled throughout, and contains some portraits of 
 interest, notably one of Katherine Eliot, granddaugh- 
 ter of Sir John Eliot, who died in the Tower 1629, 
 and wife of the celebrated antiquary, Browne Willis, 
 whose third daughter became wife to Rev. E. Hervey ; 
 also of the sisters Lamb, Lady Wentworth, and Mrs 
 Smith ; and of the Chernocke (baronets), Orlebar, and 
 Hervey families. 
 
 Arms of Smith of Aspley, as entered at the College 
 of Arms : Per fesse nebuly sa. and arg. a pale with 
 3 cross crosslets crossed two and one and as many 
 demi-men affronte" couped, each holding in both hands 
 a club in bend one and two, all counterchanged.
 
 CHAPTER VII 
 
 ENGLISH PEDIGREES continued 
 
 THE three following pedigrees have been extracted 
 from the able compilation of the late Mr H. Ecroyd 
 Smith, a zealous antiquarian, whose work unfortun- 
 ately is disfigured by polemical, political, and personal 
 antipathy. A volume of vulgar detraction levelled 
 at the clergy of the Church of England, an embittered 
 partisanship, and an amusing insensibility to the ex- 
 istence of any possible merit outside his own narrow 
 circle, might be passed over with a smile, but when 
 the gentleman descends to decry his distinguished 
 relation, Mr W. Farrer Ecroyd, late M.P. for Preston, 
 and that not merely on the score of political differ- 
 ences, but chiefly because he has built a church for 
 the benefit of his factory hands at Burnley, one can- 
 not but stand aghast at so purblind a sample of sec- 
 tarianism. This is the more regrettable, because the 
 writer has proved himself researchful and accurate, 
 while the sidelights he throws on the personnel of an 
 eminent Quaker family raises his genealogy to the 
 highest level of narrative. Because the fathers 
 elected to eat sour grapes, why should the children's 
 teeth be set on edge ? True, these industrious and 
 pious religionists prospered, but times have changed, 
 the world has advanced beyond the stage of a selfish 
 individualism, and the Quaker, with all his virtues, 
 represents but a phase of a remote past. It is 
 perhaps superfluous to slay the slain, to whom we 
 would raise a monument of reverent if qualified 
 respect ; enough that " God fulfils Himself in many 
 123
 
 124 
 
 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 ways," and hence at this time of day no system, no 
 section, can lay claim to a monopoly of good. The 
 man who in the darkest days of the Gladstonian 
 illusion dared to exploit Fair Trade, precursor of 
 imperial solidarity based on an imperial tariff; the 
 man who, breaking away from the traditions of his 
 family, brought the beneficent influence of the Church 
 to mitigate the conditions of a teeming proletariat, 
 might well have been spared the censure of a 
 narrow empiricism, which has mistaken evolution 
 for devolution, and asserts the hereditary claims of 
 a venerable yet decaying brotherhood over those 
 of conscience and common-sense. 
 
 SMITH OF BAXTEKGATE 
 
 (Descended from Smith of Brockhole in Cantley} 
 William Smith of Baxtergate, = (1788) Martha Ecroyd of Edgend, Burnley, 
 
 Doncaster, Wine Merchant, 
 associated with Thomas 
 Clarkson, M.P., the anti- 
 slavery leader (ob. 1832, 
 set. 75). 
 
 an active evangelist who preached 
 in every part of the United King- 
 dom (ob. 1832, set. 69). 
 
 Francis Henry = (1819)Maria,dau. of S.Robson 
 
 (1790-95). (1794-1866). of Staindrop (1800-62). 
 
 William (b. 1822) = (1849) Catherine, dau. of 
 B. 0. Hagen. 
 
 Henry Edward = Helen 
 Ecroyd (b. 1826). Marsh. 
 (1823-89). 
 
 Mariah L. 
 (b. 1850). 
 
 Isabella 
 (b. 1855). 
 
 Francis (b. 1828) = (1855) Frances, dau. 
 of J. Edmondson 
 of Manchester. 
 
 Stephen (b. 1830) = Elizabeth E., dau. 
 of C. F. Smith, 
 U.S. A. 
 
 Joseph Henry 
 Robson (b. 1865). 
 (b. 1858). 
 
 Sarah J. 
 (b. 1856). 
 
 Maria 
 (b. 1869). 
 
 Maria E. 
 (1867-71). 
 
 Samuel Ecroyd = (1864) Sallie A., 
 (b. 1831). 
 
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 Ann R. Martha Ecroyd Susanna 
 
 dau. of D. Ball (b. 1837) (b. 1833) of Waterhouse 
 
 of Ferrisberg, = R. Da vies. Egremont. (b. at Craw- 
 
 U.S.A. ley 1842). 
 
 Eliza M. (b. 1869).
 
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 130 
 
 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 SMYTH OE MYEESHAW AND HEATH HALL 
 
 Richard Smyth of Myreshaw, in Bradford (b. 1594)= ... 
 
 An elder son. 
 
 John = Isabel, dau. of Randall Wood, and niece of 
 | Dr Marge tson, Archbishop of Armagh. 
 
 John of Heath Hall (1654-1729) = (1) Hannah, dau. of Richard Harrison, Esq., 
 | of Wakefield. 
 
 John of Heath Hall = Co-heiress of Robert Frank, Esq. , Richard = Anne 
 
 (1675-1731), s.p. 
 
 of Pontefract. 
 
 Wheatley. 
 
 John of Heath Hall = Bridget, dau. of Benjamin Foxley, Esq. 
 
 (1716-71). 
 
 (ob. 1800). 
 
 The Right Hon. John, M.P., Lord of =(1778) Lady Georgiana Fitzroy, dau 
 
 the Admiralty, Lord of the Treasury, 
 Master of the Mint (1748-1811). 
 
 of the 3rd Duke of Grafton. 
 
 ( 1 ) Sarah C. , = John Henry of = 
 dau. of H. Heath Hall, 
 Ibbotson, Esq. , M. P. for Cam- 
 fob., s.p., bridge Univ. 
 1811). (1780-1822). 
 
 = (2) Lady Elizabeth 
 A. Fitzroy, dau. of 
 4th D. of Grafton. 
 
 Col. George = Sarah, 
 (b. 1782). dau. of 
 Daniel 
 Wilson. 
 
 
 
 
 Capt. Thomas, R.N. Major Charles (b. 1786), Georgiana A. Maria B. F. 
 (b. 1784), s.p. died of wounds after (ob. 1864). (ob. 1813). 
 Quatre Bras. 
 
 Col. John George of Heath = 
 Hall, M.P. for York 
 (1815-69). 
 
 = Hon. Diana B. , dau. Gen. Henry = Rebecca, 
 of 3rd Lord Mac- (b. 1816). dau.ofThos. 
 donald (ob. 1880). Pierce, Esq. 
 
 
 
 
 
 Elizth. = Abraham Louisa G.=Gervase Maria Isa- = Vice- Adml. Fran- 
 S. G.Robarts. (ob.1842). P. Bushe. bella(ob. R. Fitzroy. ces. 
 
 1865). 
 
 George John of Heath Hall 
 (b. 1841). 
 
 William J. Diana E. M. = Henry, 4th Earl 
 (b. 1841). of Harewood. 
 
 I 
 Louisa H. = J. H. Thursby, Esq. 
 
 Mary Caroline. 
 
 Eva Laura. 
 
 ARMS : Erm. on a bend, beneath 2 unicorns' heads erased az., 3 lozenges or. 
 
 CHEST : A demi-bull rampant arg. issuing from a ducal coronet or, armed and 
 horned of the same, and gorged with a cottar az., charged with $ 
 lozenges and rimmed or. 
 
 MOTTO : Nee timeo, nee sperno.
 
 ENGLISH PEDIGREES 131 
 
 SMITH OF SOUTHFIELD, HERTS. 
 
 James Smith (1725-1803) = a granddaughter of 
 Rev. John James, one of the ministers ejected at the 
 Restoration. By her he had with a daughter = Joseph 
 Gutteridge, Esq., a son, named after his ancestor 
 the minister, John James (1761-1821). He married 
 Elizabeth, daughter of William Lepard, Esq., and by 
 her had two sons viz. (1) James (1789-1879) = 
 Sophia King, and by her had, firstly, John James 
 (b. 1804) = (i.) Caroline, daughter of W. Brodie 
 Gurney, Esq., and by her had (a) Alfred G. = Emily 
 J. Walker, and had Emily C. ; Beatrice ; Winifred ; 
 Alfred E. ; John H. all unmarried ; (b) W. Lepard = 
 Adelaide Earwig, s.p. ; (c) Herbert ; (d) Caroline G. ; 
 (e) Charles R. = Isabella Lendon, and has Bessie, 
 John Lendon, James. 
 
 Mr. John James Smith = (ii.) his cousin (vide infra), 
 Mary Esther Smith, and by her had Ella Mariamne, 
 unmarried. 
 
 The second child of James Smith by Sophia King 
 was Emma Sophia = John Hepburn, Esq., and had 
 five sons and one daughter. The third, Eliza Jane = 
 G. Harvey Betts, and had issue one son, four 
 daughters. The fourth, viz. Joseph Gutteridge 
 Smith = (1) Martha Rotton, but by her had no issue. 
 He = (2) Mary E. Hepburn, and by her had Eliza- 
 beth S., Catherine M., Eleanor A., Edith = Howard 
 James, Esq. ; Frederick, Margaret. He married (3) 
 Isabel Roots, and by her had Geoffrey, Richard, 
 Irene, Augustine. 
 
 The fifth child of James Smith and Sophia King 
 was Charles King Smith, Esq., who, by Mary, daughter 
 of John Cox, Esq., had (1) Helen Mary King = Frank 
 Perry, Esq., and has issue two daughters ; (2) Arthur 
 King Smith = Janet Keep, and has issue, Stanley,
 
 132 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 May, Colin, Janet ; (3) Charles King Smith = Alice 
 Keep, and by her has Muriel, Ronald, Philip, Alan ; 
 (4) A. Sophia King Smith; (5) Harold King; (6) 
 Oswald King ; (7) Norman King ; (8) Rowland 
 King. 
 
 The second son of John J. Smith by Elizabeth 
 Lepard was William Lepard Smith (1795-1$69) 
 = Mary A. Cooper, and by her had an only 
 daughter, Mary Esther, who = her cousin, as his 
 second wife viz. Mr John James Smith (vide 
 supra). 
 
 The portrait of the founder of the family is at 
 Southfield. He died at Colebroke Row, Islington, 
 "well known in the religious world, and respected 
 wherever known." -Vide Evangelical Magazine, 
 January 1804. He was a deacon of the Chapel in 
 Little Wild Street, and, as such, closely associated 
 with that noble Nonconformist, Howard, the philan- 
 thropist. His son was proprietor of the Hamper 
 Paper Mill, Watford. It may be added that the 
 pastor of the Islington Chapel was son of one of 
 Cromwell's chaplains, and also practised medicine, 
 besides being a Hebraist. John Ward, one of the 
 earlier Trustees of the British Museum, was a 
 member of his chapel. 
 
 SMITH OF ALDENHAM 
 
 Joseph Smith = Elizabeth, daughter of ... Bennet, a 
 Wiltshire gentleman (b. circa 1760), and by her had 
 twenty-two children. In Morant's "Essex," 1768, 
 we have the descent of the Wiltshire Bennets, said to 
 be of the same blood as the Earls of Tankerville, 
 thus 
 
 Sir Denver Strutt, Bart, of Little Warley, created 
 1641, was a zealous Cavalier, and fell at the Siege of
 
 ENGLISH PEDIGREES 133 
 
 Colchester in the Civil War, ex parte Regis. By his 
 second wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas 
 Woodhouse of Kimberley, he had two daughters, 
 whereof Blanche, the elder, married Mr Bennet of 
 Wilts, and by him had a son, Denver, who 
 married Elizabeth, daughter of John Walker, Esq., 
 of Brentwood. He died in 1741, leaving a son, 
 Denver, whose daughter, Elizabeth, became the wife 
 of Joseph Smith, Esq., of Aldenham ; of their numer- 
 ous issue, twelve died as infants. Of the surviving 
 ten,* Joseph, the eighth child, married Charlotte, 
 daughter of General Conran, and by her had Conran ; 
 John = Emily . . . , and had Noel, Frank, Conran, Emily ; 
 Henry = Harriet, and had Balfour, Ewart, Henry, 
 Reginald, Eric, Harriet ; Denver ; Charles ; Louisa, 
 s.p. ; Emma = her first cousin, Frederick Wickings 
 Smith, son of George Smith, F.S.A. (vide infra) ; 
 Charlotte = Rev. Frank Buck ; Mary, s.p. ; Catherine. 
 The thirteenth and eldest surviving child, George, 
 F.S.A. (b. Sept. 28, 1782), married Sarah, daughter 
 of John Howell, Esq., by Ann, daughter of... Hith- 
 cock, Esq., of Leicester (b. Dec. 1, 1755). By her he 
 had eleven children, and of these (1) George 
 Howell, Trinity College, Cambridge, died on a tour in 
 Italy; (2) Sydney (1807-80), M.A. Trinity College, 
 Cambridge, B.A. 1835, deacon 1836, was Vicar 
 of Worth, (1854-80) = Frances Mary, daughter of 
 ... Richardson, Esq., and by her had Sydney F. (b. 
 1843), a priest of the Roman Church ; Algernon 
 Howell (b. 1845), B.A. 1869, Caius College, Cam- 
 bridge (fifteenth Wrangler), M.A. 1872, Tyrwhitt and 
 University Hebrew scholar, sometime Vicar of St 
 Peters, Tunbridge Wells, now Rector of St James, 
 Dover, married (1879) his cousin, Ada, third daughter 
 of Frederick Wickings Smith (vide infra), and by her 
 
 * One son is said to have been a physician practising in London.
 
 134 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 has Arthur Denver Ho well (b. 1880), Christ's College, 
 Cambridge ; Frederick Percival Howell (1881-87) ; 
 Sydney Gerard (b. 1883) ; Eva Marjorie Howell (b. 
 1886); (3) Arthur, died young; (4) Emily; (5) 
 Frederick Wickings, Solicitor, 13 Lincoln's Inn 
 Fields, of Bellefield, Blackheath, S.E. = a cousin in 
 Emma, second daughter of Joseph Smith, Esq., of 
 Barnet, and by her has had Walter F. died young ; 
 Emma L. Arundell = Rev. H. R. Gray; Harry G., 
 died in New Zealand, s.p. ; Agnes ; Arthur F, died 
 in Canada, s.p. ; Ada Charlotte = Rev. Algernon 
 Howell Smith (vide supra) ; Clara Fredericka = 
 Augustus Beamish, Esq. ; Emily Maude ; Basil 
 Wickings = Agnes Keen (and by her has : Agnes 
 Hilda Maude Wickings (b. 1884) ; Basil Guildford 
 Wickings (b. 1885); Claude Trebec Wickings (b. 
 1886) ; Cyril Wickings (b. 1888) ; Frederick) ; Percy 
 Trebec, died young ; Herbert Conran = Emily S. Ray 
 (and by her has Leslie Noel Conran (b. 1889) ; 
 Frederick Neville Conran (b. 1888) ; Doris Conran 
 (b. 1885); Herbert Churchill Theodore Conran 
 (b. 1893); Monica Conran (b. 1890)); Herbert 
 C. T. Conran ; George Norman, died young ; Helen 
 Mary Gertrude; (6) Harry Bennett (b. 1811), died 
 Rector of St Nicholas at Wade, Kent ; (7) Walter 
 William ; (8) Percy (b. March 8, 1818 died Feb. 5, 
 1887) of Bretts, Aveley, Essex ; (9) Helen Matilda, 
 s.p., died at Worth, Kent; (10) Rosa; (11) Emily 
 Rosa, died at Balham House, set. 25, s.p. 
 
 Mr George Smith, F.S.A., was a distinguished 
 Architect and Surveyor of the Old Jewry. He 
 acted professionally for the Mercers' Company, 
 and resided at " Little Blenheim," which mansion 
 he erected set. 24, and eventually sold to the 
 Duke of Marlborough ; at Brookland, Blackheath ; 
 the Manor House, Bushey, etc., etc. He died at 
 Newlands, in Worth, and lies buried by the side
 
 ENGLISH PEDIGREES 135 
 
 of his wife and daughter in the family vault at 
 Aldenham, Herts. 
 
 He used the Crest of the Bennets (Earls of Tanker- 
 ville) viz. Out of a mural coronet or, a lion's head 
 gu. , charged on the neck with a bezant. 
 
 According to Morant (" History of Essex "), John 
 Bennet of Westminster held the manors of Witham 
 Magna and Newland, being of the Wilts family, 
 whence the Earls of Arlington and Tankerville. He 
 died in 1670, leaving these manors to his son, Sir 
 John, Serjeant-at-Law, knighted in 1706. By Anne, 
 sister to Sir Joseph Brand, this gentleman had two 
 sons, who became Masters in Chancery, and a daugh- 
 ter, who married the Hon. John Vaughan, son and heir 
 of Viscount Lisburne. The elder son, who sold the 
 manors in 1735 to the Rev. George Sayer, D.D., 
 Vicar of Witham Major, married at Wargrave (Nov- 
 ember 27, 1844), Mary, daughter of Joseph Maynard, 
 Esq., of Kentons, in Wargrave, and by her had 
 Edith (b. and d. 1846) ; Walter (b. 1848) = 1893, 
 Mary, daughter of... Gething, Esq. ; Howell (b. 1853), 
 died in Queensland, s.p. ; Newton (b. 1855) = 1876, 
 Caroline Augusta, daughter of William Part- 
 ridge, of Barrie, Ontario (and by her had Percy 
 Maynard (b. 1878) ; Howell (b. 1880), now a Trooper 
 in Baden Powell's Police, late Volunteer in the 
 Canadian Mounted Rifles ; George Wickens (b. 1884); 
 Evelyn Gordon (b. 1885); Newton Maynard (b. 1879) ; 
 Edith ; Rosa Mabel) ; Percy, twin with Newton = 
 1880, Elizabeth, daughter of... Miller, Esq. (and 
 by her has Harold Percy (b. 1881), a Trooper in 
 Baden Powell's Police ; Norman Percy (b. 1884) ; 
 Doris Percy (b. 1887) ; Ida Percy (1888-94)) ; Harry 
 (b. 1858); George (b. 1860); Russell (b. 1862); 
 Emmeline, now of The Holt, Ledbury ; Rosa.
 
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 138 
 
 SMITH OF SHOPWYKE 
 
 Rev. . . . Smith, Baptist Minister, imprisoned under the Act of Uniformity, 
 temp. Car. II. , with forfeiture of goods. 
 
 Rev. William, Baptist Minister = Sarah ...(1679-1756). M.I., St Pancras, 
 and Brewer of Chichester. Chichester. 
 
 William =. ..George (1713-76), =Ruth Biffin (?) John (painter), Elizabeth 
 
 (1707-64), 
 
 landscape 
 
 (1732-95). 
 
 portrait- 
 painter, 
 
 painter, M.I., 
 St Pancras, 
 
 
 of Shop- 
 
 Chichester. 
 
 
 wyke. 
 
 
 
 
 1 1 
 2 sons. 2 daiis. 
 
 (1714-61), 
 M.I., 
 
 St Pancras, 
 Chichester. 
 
 (1)... Bethel = William =(2)... John. a dau. , of Portsea. 
 of Hull. 
 
 (1710- 
 57), 
 
 M.I., St 
 Pancras, 
 Chi- 
 chester. 
 
 of the 
 Customs. 
 
 a dau. = George Penny. 
 
 George, s.p. Elizabeth = Rev. William Prince. 
 William. Charles. Augustus. 
 
 I I I 
 
 Charlotte = . . .Beeston. Elizabeth = Richard Pink Richard = Eliza Pink. 
 
 (1787- 
 1863). 
 
 of Hambledon. 
 
 Ernest Smith Pink Col. Pink, 
 of Leicester. 
 
 There are several monuments to Smiths and Smyths 
 in Chichester Cathedral, among others, in the West 
 Cloisters, to Eichard Smith (1704-67), and a tablet 
 in the south aisle to Jane Smith (1733-80), whose 
 husband's name was William. This may be William, 
 son of the portrait-painter (vide supra). 
 
 For a notice of the three brothers, painters, William, 
 George, and John, see chapter on " Celebrities of the 
 Name."
 
 ENGLISH PEDIGREES 139 
 
 There is also at present in Chichester a family of 
 repute, leather merchants of very old standing, who 
 originally came from Hull. They are represented by 
 Mr W. Smith, J.P. of Ivy Bank, Alderman of West 
 Sussex, and on six occasions Mayor of Chichester. 
 
 SMITH OF PICKERING, CANADA, BART. 
 
 Colonel William Smith, = Anne, dau. of W. Waylen 
 
 Governor of Fort 
 Niagara. Ob. 1795. 
 
 of Devizes. 
 
 (1) Anne O'Reilly = Sir David William, = (2) Mary, dau. of John 
 
 Speaker of the 
 Canadian Parlia- 
 ment. Creation, 
 1821. Ob. 1837. 
 
 Tylee of Devizes. 
 
 David William, Mary Elizabeth = Charles Hannah. 
 
 R.N., killed in 
 
 Tylee, Esq. 
 
 action, 1811. 
 
 Issue 2 sons, 3 daus. 
 
 ARMS : Per pale gu. and az. on a chevron or, between 3 cinquefoils arg., as 
 many leopards' faces sa. , on a chief of the third a beaver passant ppr. 
 
 THE LYVEDEN LINE 
 
 The fact of the descendants of a gentleman of 
 considerable parts, but unknown origin, having 
 thrown themselves enthusiastically into the arms 
 of the Whig faction, argues that the said unknown 
 origin most likely was obscure. Sydney Smith, 
 when someone inquired as to his coat-of-arms, re- 
 sponded that his ancestors sealed their letters with 
 their thumbs. Like Thackeray, he despised ancestry, 
 for the simple reason that he had none to boast of, 
 and took his stand on brains, and remarkably good 
 ones. The genealogist, none the less, cannot but 
 regret that the antecedents of the Witney merchant 
 of Eastcheap, who, migrating from Devon, became 
 the father of Robert Smith, founder of a singularly
 
 140 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 able family, remain a mystery. Whoever he may 
 have been, one thing is certain, that his grandson 
 owed much to both parents. To Robert,* 1 who, 
 leaving his bride at the altar, and his business to 
 his brother John, went off in search of a Pactolus, 
 and returning, appears to have discovered the sources 
 of that golden stream. To Maria Olier also, by 
 repute the alter ego of Mrs Siddons. We com- 
 mence, therefore, with Eobert Smith (1739-1827) 
 = Mary Olier issue: (1) Eobert Percy, (2) Cecil, 
 (3) Sydney, (4) Courtenay, (5) Maria. (1) Eobert 
 Percy Smith (nicknamed " Bobus ") (1770-1845), 
 M.P. for Lincoln, Judge Advocate-General = (1798) 
 Caroline M., co-heiress of E. Vernon, Esq., by 
 Lady Evelyn, widow of John R, Earl of Upper 
 Ossory, and daughter of J., Earl Gower. By her he 
 had Eobert Vernon Smith, who assumed the name of 
 Vernon in 1846 by Eoyal Licence (1800-73) a Lord 
 of the Treasury, 1830-34 ; Secretary to the Board of 
 Control, 1835-39 ; Under-Secretary of the Colonies, 
 1839-41 ; Secretary at War, 1852 ; President of the 
 Board of Control, 1855-58. Eaised to the Peerage 
 as Baron Lyveden of Lyveden, in the County of 
 Northants = Emma M. R, sister of Lord Castletown 
 of Upper Ossory, and had issue (i.) Fitzpatrick H., 
 his successor; (ii.) Gowran C., Eecorder of Lincoln 
 (1825-72) = (1857) Caroline, daughter of J. N. Fitz- 
 akerley, Esq., M.P., and by her had Eleanor E. 
 = Col. Farmer, King's Eifles ; Dorothy H. ; Gertrude 
 -(1889) Sir A. Noel Agnew, ninth Bart, (iii.) Eev. 
 Courtenay J. (1828-92), Eector of Grafton Under- 
 wood =(1856) Alice G., daughter of Eev. M. Town- 
 shend of Castle Townshend issue, Courtenay E. P. 
 = R, daughter of Major Hill of Wollaston; Sydney 
 (b. 1862) ; Evelyn M. G. = Eev. H. A. Gillett. 
 (iv.) Greville E. (b. 1835), M.P. for Ayrshire (1886-92) 
 
 * Refer to Reid's "Life of Sydney Smith/'
 
 ENGLISH PEDIGREES 141 
 
 = (1858) S. C., daughter of Captain Cockerell, R.N. 
 -issue, Cecil S. A. (b. 1862), Ronald J. (b. 1866), 
 Eustace (b. 1871), Rupert R (b. 1872), Guy F. R 
 (b. 1878), Florence A. (b. 1867) = (1894) R. M. Lawrie, 
 Esq. of Hardres, Hermione E. (b. 1875). (v.) Evelyn 
 E. (1829-71) = (1850) George Woodhouse Currie, Esq. 
 
 Fitzpatrick H. Vernon, second Baron Lyveden 
 (b. 1829) = (1853) Alfreda E., daughter of Charles W., 
 fifth Earl Fitzwilliam. 
 
 Arms of the Lords Lyveden : Quarterly 1 and 4, 
 Vernon, arg., a fret sa. ; 2 and 3, Smith, gu. 3 bars 
 gemelles arg., a chevron erm., on a chief of the second 
 3 blackamores' heads proper, a canton of the field 
 charged with a battle-axe or all within a bordure 
 counter-compony, of the second and az. Crests : 
 Dexter Vernon, a boar's head erased sa., ducally 
 gorged or; sinister, Smith, a cubit arm erect in 
 armour proper, charged with a battle-axe sa., the 
 hand grasping 2 wreaths of laurel pendant on either 
 side, also proper. Supporters: Dexter, a boar sa., 
 ducally gorged, and suspended therefrom by a chain 
 an eschocheon or, charged with a rose gu. slipped 
 proper. Sinister. A wyvern vert, plain collared and 
 suspended therefrom by a chain, an eschocheon or, 
 charged with a rose gu. slipped proper. Motto : 
 " Ver non semper viret." 
 
 The Vernons, from whom the Smiths descend, 
 are of Hilton, Staffs Richard Vernon, Esq., having 
 represented Newcastle - under - Lyme, Okehampton, 
 and Bedford. 
 
 It may be mentioned incidentally that, while the 
 origin of the family is uncertain, Sydney Smith 
 having in a vein of mauvaise plaisanterie hazarded 
 the audacious statement, that his grandfather disap- 
 peared about the time of the Assizes and they asked 
 no questions, we have a link of some interest, 
 inasmuch as it shows a connection with Sir Isaac
 
 142 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 Newton. Thus : The mother of Sir Isaac, on the 
 decease of the elder Newton, re-married a Mr 
 Barnaby Smith, and by him had a daughter, who 
 married a Dr Barton, and by him had a daughter, 
 who was granted by Sir Isaac Newton an annuity 
 of 100, and marrying M. Olier, a refugee from 
 Languedoc at the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, 
 was mother of Maria Olier, wife of Robert Smith.* 
 [For an account of Sydney Smith, and also of the 
 first Lord Lyveden, vide the chapter on " Celebrities 
 of the Name."] 
 
 THE HAMBLEDON LINE 
 
 Henry Walton Smith, a naval officer, alleged to be 
 descended from the Smithes of Wyke, Somerset, who 
 received a grant of arms from Camden Clarencieux in 
 1602, was living in the middle of the eighteenth century. 
 By Anna Easthaugh he had three sons. Of these, 
 W. H., in conjunction with his brother, H. E. Smith, 
 commenced as newsagents. W. H. Smith = Mary 
 Cooper in 1817; their son, William Henry (1825-91), 
 after a brilliant commercial and political career, 
 became Leader of the House of Commons. He 
 married, in 1858, Emily, daughter of J. Danvers. Esq., 
 and widow of B. Auber Leach, Esq., a lady who, at 
 his decease, was created Viscountess Hambledon. 
 By her he had (1) William F. D., M.P., = 1894, the 
 Lady Esther C. G. Gore, daughter of the 5th Earl of 
 Arran ; (2) Emily A. = 1887, Captain W. A. Dyke 
 Ackland, R.N. ; (3) Helen ; (4) Beatrice D. = 1885, 
 Captain A. Dyke Ackland; (5) Mabel D. = 1887, 
 J. H. Dudley Ryder, Esq. 
 
 Creation Nov. 10, 1891. Arms (as per " Burke's 
 Peerage") : Per pale gu. and or on a chevron between 
 
 * It is possible that the father of Robert may have been related to the 
 above-mentioned Barnaby Smith, and thus that Maria Olier was a cousin.
 
 ENGLISH PEDIGREES 143 
 
 3 mullets pierced, 2 martlets, all counterchanged. 
 Supporters : On the dexter side a sea-lion vert, 
 seme"e of escalops, gorged with a collar, and pendent 
 therefrom by a chain a portcullis, all or. On the 
 sinister side a wyvern gu. seme"e of mullets, gorged 
 with a chain, and pendent therefrom a portcullis, 
 all or. 
 
 But Grazebrook (1870) assigns him with a differ- 
 ence, the coat granted in 1602 to George Smithes of 
 Wyke, the original whereof is in possession of Francis 
 Smythe, Esq., of Colchester (vide Misc. Gen. et Her. 
 2. 96). 
 
 The more ancient coat was arg., a chevron az. 
 between 3 oak leaves vert, each charged with an 
 acorn or. Crest : A cubit arm erect, habited az., 
 cuffed arg., in the hand proper 3 acorn branches vert, 
 fructed or. 
 
 The Right Hon. W. H. Smith, M.P.* (vide supple- 
 ment to " Burke's Armory ") in 1868 bore : Arg., on a 
 chevron az. between 3 oak leaves vert, each charged 
 with an acorn or, as many leopards' faces jessant-de- 
 lis of the field. The crest was as above, but the arm 
 was charged with 3 mascles in chevron arg. (vide 
 also Debrett). Apparently the present coat was 
 granted simultaneously with the peerage. 
 
 It may be added that the Smithes of Wyke claimed 
 descent from the very ancient house of Cuerdley, 
 Lanes., whose original coat was sa., six fleurs-de-lis, 
 three, two, and one, arg. a typical coat of the early 
 mediaeval pattern. 
 
 * The author recalls the memory of this illustrious statesman, when 
 "Cerberus of the Treasury," having had the honour of an introduction by the 
 Right Hon. G. Ward Hunt, then First Lord of the Admiralty a nephew of 
 his uncle, Captain Allen F. Gardiner, R.N., the martyr. In Mr W. H. 
 Smith he found the most courteous of gentlemen ; but inasmuch as the 
 objective was a pension for a friend true to his sobriquet, "Old Morality," 
 and in limine politely impassive. He must, however, have had a soft spot in 
 his heart, for the pension a compassionate allowance ultimately was 
 granted, and on the maximum scale. R.I. P.
 
 144 
 
 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 SMITH OF KIDLINGTON AND IFFLEY 
 
 Thomas, son of Thomas of Kidlington = Anne (ob. 1743). 
 
 Thomas (1703-57) M.I. = Anne Morris John Richard of Cutteslow 
 Kidlington Church. (1704-71). (b. 1704). (1723-78). 
 
 Thomas (1729-52) Mary John of Iffley (1731-95) = (1756) Anne Smith of 
 
 M.I. Kidlington. (b. 1730.) M.I. Kidlington. 
 
 Islip (ob. 1805), 
 M.I. Kidlington. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 (1826-90). 
 
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 John (1799- Mary Anne Caroline Eliza M. A. RhodaS. AmeliaM. Stephen F. 
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 This appears to have been a family of well-to-do farmers and tradesmen. 
 
 A Joseph Smith of Littlemore is also buried at Iffley. M.I. states that he 
 was a nephew of Mrs Blacknall Carter (vide supra). 
 
 Littlemore, some three miles east of Oxford, was the spot where Cardinal 
 Newman, then Fellow of Oriel, founded a Brotherhood. Vide his "Apologia."
 
 ENGLISH PEDIGREES 
 
 145 
 
 SMITH OF OUTWOOD 
 
 Charles Smith of Outwood (1712-78) = Mary Woods (1709-65). 
 
 Charles (1743- 1803) = Hannah (1747-1812), dau. of 
 James Grantham (b. 1704) 
 and granddaughter of 
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 Charles (1789-1850) = Ann (1790-1872), grandau. of Mary (1785- = William 
 ... Rowland (1723-98). 1822). I By water. 
 
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 by Betty Chadwick (1789-1850). 
 
 Charles Smith and 3 other sons. Edith Anne = ... Willcocks, Esq. 
 
 Mr Charles Smith (3) was one of the thirteen gentlemen of Manchester who 
 founded the Union Bank, of which he was elected unanimously the first 
 managing director. 
 
 SMITH OF ELLINGHAM HALL 
 
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 Hall (1791-1852). 
 
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 H. P. Measor, and dau. of 
 J. Dowie, Esq. 
 
 Henry Lockhart Alfred T. 4 daus. 
 (b. 1859). (b. 1867). 
 
 Horace Mackenzie (b. 1870). 
 
 ARMS : Per bend indented az. and or, 2 crosses moline pierced counterchanged. 
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 Few English families in the brief space of little 
 more than a century have achieved so high a reputa- 
 tion as this, the men having been conspicuous for 
 brains, and the women, especially Mrs Waldy and 
 Lady Sackville, for beauty. The Rev. George 
 Stanley Faber, B.D., Master of Sherburn Hospital, 
 an appointment of the value of 4000 a year, with 
 patronage attached, was a noted writer on prophecy 
 in the earlier years of the last century, and is referred 
 to in Cardinal Newman's "Apologia." His nephew 
 and protege, Father Faber, attained immortality as a 
 hymn writer, and will long be remembered as founder 
 of the beautiful Brompton Oratory. The Rev. Canon 
 Arthur Faber was equally eminent as the creator of 
 Malvern College, after a brilliant career at New 
 College, Oxford ; and other members of the family 
 have recently entered the House of Commons. The 
 name Faber occurs in many documents prior to, or 
 contemporaneous with, the Reformation as the equiva- 
 lent of Smith. Thus the first of the ancient and 
 honourable house of Elkington was Faber, and the 
 grandsire of the yeoman of Cropwell Boteler, ancestor 
 of Lords Carrington and Pauncefote, was also Faber. 
 The Yorkshire Fabers appear never to have Angli- 
 cised their patronymic. We find Fabers named as 
 contributories to lay subsidies in the reign of Edward 
 III. (vide publications of the Yorkshire Archaeo- 
 logical Society) and as tenants of the Abbeys of 
 Fountains and Kirkstall ; while a Sir William Faber 
 was in the suite of Buckingham in France, 1380 ; and 
 far back in history the architect of Battle Abbey was 
 also a Faber, but a Frenchman imported for the 
 purpose by William the Conqueror. 
 
 Arms of Faber : Or, on a pale erm. a rose gu., 
 barbed and seeded ppr., on a chief az. 2 mullets arg. 
 Crest : On a wreath from the battlements of a 
 tower or, a mailed arm and hand ppr. charged with
 
 ENGLISH PEDIGREES 
 
 151 
 
 2 mascles vert, holding a rose gu., barbed, seeded, 
 and leafed ppr. Motto : Quisque faber fortunes 
 
 SU86. 
 
 SMITH OF EYHOPE 
 
 William Scurfield of Sunderland and = Joanna Smith, an heiress, dau. of 
 
 Newcastle, F. R. C. S. , discoverer of 
 copperas. 
 
 Anthony Smith of Ryhope. 
 
 A son, s.p. 
 
 William of Coatham. 
 
 Dorothy of Ford. 
 
 William Grey, J.P., of Norton = Joanna Scurfield. 
 
 William Scurfield, 
 J.P.,D.L., High 
 Sheriff of Durham, 
 Barrister, s.p. 
 
 George J. , as heir of 
 Dorothy, assumed 
 the name of Scur- 
 field, J.P., D.L. 
 
 Rev. John William, assumed 
 the name of Smith on suc- 
 ceeding to the Smith estates, 
 Rector of Dinsdale. [See 
 pedigree of Faber als Smith, 
 supra. ] 
 
 SMITH OF HARNHILL, FARMINGTON, AND 
 CASSINGTON 
 
 Thomas Smith, died at Kidlington, = Alice, heiress of Thomas Standard, 
 1706. died at Kidlington, 1706. 
 
 Humphrey (1672-1716) of Mary, sold the lease of Thomas, M.A., Others. 
 Wadham College, High Kidlington Rectory. Magd. Hall 
 
 Sheriff for Oxon. (1676-1707). 
 
 Here this pedigree shows default, for we find a 
 Thomas Smith of Elsfield, whose son, John, was bap- 
 tised at Kidlington, 1699. He was probably a cousin 
 of the Thomas who married Alice Standard. Again 
 we find Thomas Smith of Cassington and Headington 
 who died at Kidlington, 1761, set. 57. By Elizabeth, 
 his wife, who died at Kidlington, 1755, he had (1) 
 Thomas, surgeon of London (1714-84), buried at
 
 152 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 Kidlington. His wife, Frances, was also buried at 
 Kidlington in 1783 ; (2) William, died at Headington. 
 Buried at Kidlington, 1793. He was born at Gassing- 
 ton, 1732 ; (3) Mary, born 1726. Baptised at Yarn- 
 ton ; (4) Elizabeth, died at Headington. Buried at 
 Kidlington, 1825, set. 82. 
 
 It may be added that these Smiths came origi- 
 nally from Harnhill, Gloucestershire (vide Atkyns's 
 " History," and the Hon. Mrs Bryan Stapleton's 
 " Three Parishes "). Atkyns says : " Thomas Smith, 
 Esq., son of Humphrey Smith, is Lord of the Manor 
 of Harnhill. He has a good house and estate, but 
 resides in Oxon." The following presented to the 
 living of Harnhill : 1595, Queen Elizabeth ; 1666, 
 Humphrey Smith, Clerk in Holy Orders; 1700, 
 Thomas Smith, Esq. 
 
 Identical with this family of Smith were the 
 Smiths of Farmington, Northleach, e.g. : 
 
 Rev. William Smith, presented by Humphrey = Dorothy , buried at Farming- 
 Smith, M.A., to the benefice of Alvescot by 
 
 Bampton, Oxon. 
 
 ton, 1668. 
 
 (1) Winifred Cocks (at = Rev. Humphrey of Harnhill, = (2) Susanna Denys of 
 
 Farmington), 1645. 
 She died 1652. 
 
 presented to the Rectory of Cricklade at Farm- 
 Farmington, 1641. Died ington, 1663, s.p. 
 
 there 1687, set. 75. 
 
 Humphrey (1647-59). 
 
 Apparently the Rev. Humphrey's father must have 
 had a brother Humphrey in Holy Orders, for in the 
 Register of Blackbourton, Oxon., we find Ann, wife of 
 Humphrey Smith, Clerk ; buried 1617 (vide Anthony 
 A. Wood). 
 
 Again, we find that Thomas Smith = Anne Fifield 
 of Farmington, 1618, and had a son, Thomas, born 
 1620.
 
 ENGLISH PEDIGREES 153 
 
 CONFIRMATION OF ARMS TO HUMPHREY SMITH OF 
 FARMINGTON 
 
 " Whereas it appears by the certificate of Richard 
 Goddard, now rector of Castle Eaton in the Co. 
 Wilts, that Mr Humphrey Smith, who was hereto- 
 fore rector for the space of 47 years, did bear for 
 his Armes an eagle displayed, as is evident in the 
 Ingravement thereof 57 years since upon a Tomb- 
 stone in the Church of Castle Eaton aforesaid, 
 where the said Humphrey and Eliz th his wife are 
 interred. And whereas I am informed by Francis 
 Sandford, Esq., Rouge Dragon Pursuivant-at-arms, 
 that he, having collected the issue of the said 
 Humphrey and Elizabeth, doth find that Humphrey 
 Smith of Farmington in County Glos., and William 
 of St Dunstan's Parish in the West London, are 
 grandchildren of the said Humphrey and Elizabeth, 
 that is to say, sonnes of William, sonne and heir 
 of the said Humphrey and Eliz th , and that their 
 father and grandfather have successively used the 
 said Armes and sealed therewith. But the same 
 not being registered in the College of Armes, and 
 the said Humphrey having no other evidence that 
 the said seals and tomb-stone (such other memorials 
 as were being imbezzled during their minority) they 
 are not certain of the true colours of the said armes : 
 I, James Earl of Suffolk, Deputy to The Right 
 Hon. Earl of Norwich (sic) Earl Marshall of England, 
 being humbly desired on the behalf of the said 
 Humphrey and William to give my consent that the 
 said armes so proved may be allowed and entered 
 in the said College of Armes, doe hold the same 
 reasonable. And therefore doe hereby require you 
 to devise such colours for the said armes as may 
 be without wrong-doing to any. And in regard 
 the same Humphrey and William, having liberally
 
 154 
 
 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 contributed toward the rebuilding of the said College 
 of Armes, the Registrar of the said College is re- 
 quired (according to His Majesty's Commission 
 touching such benefactors) to register the said armes 
 together with a descent of the said William Smith, 
 and also these presents in the College of Armes, 
 under seal of the Earl Marshall's office, 7th 
 October 1674. SUFFOLK." (Vide Ashmole MSS. 
 858, p. 239, and Stapleton, p. 897.) 
 
 The arms were finally settled by the Heralds as 
 " Parted per pale ermine and erminois. Over all 
 an eagle displayed sa., beaked and membered gu." 
 ( Vide also the Registers of Cassington, Farmington, 
 Kidlington, with M.I. in Farmington and Kidling- 
 ton.) 
 
 SMYTHE OF HILTON 
 
 From Smythe of Hilton, Salop, who obtained a charter from Edward I., 
 descended Smythe of Hilton who obtained also a charter from Queen Eliza- 
 beth, and from him derived : 
 
 Captain Thomas of Hilton, = Elizabeth, dau. of Wannerton Groome, 
 living circa 1750. Esq., of Trysull. 
 
 Major John Groome = (1805) Anne, dau. of Thos. Parke, Esq., 
 (1771-1835). I and sister of Lord Wensleydale (ob. 1852). 
 
 Elizabeth. 
 
 1 
 
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 1 
 
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 John 
 
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 Lieu.- 
 
 heiress of 
 
 Groome, 
 
 George, 
 
 Georgi- Henry 
 
 = (1839) Gen. H. 
 
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 Madras 
 
 Deans (ob. 
 
 (1809-39) 
 
 (b.1811) 
 
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 of Hon. E. 
 
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 1862). 
 
 
 
 of Dr R. of 
 
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 1808). 
 
 
 
 
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 Annie Georgiana. 
 
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 Mary Eliza Clio. Cecilia A. Parke. Anne Blance. 
 
 ARMS : Sa. a bend between 6 martlets arg. 
 CREST : A buffalo's head proper.
 
 ENGLISH PEDIGREES 
 
 155 
 
 SMITH OF NOTTINGHAM 
 
 This family has adopted for crest a greyhound's head proper, but there does 
 not appear to be any link with the Smiths of Devon or of Suffolk. 
 
 . . . Smith of Nottingham St Mary. 
 
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 1791). 
 
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 82), 
 
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 (1794- 
 
 (musi- 
 
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 1871). 
 
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 1 
 
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 William (1819-37) 
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 Mary (1817-86), 
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 Elizabeth = 
 (b. 1822). 
 
 = James Ward 
 
 (1823-88). 
 
 Catherine 
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 William Samuel James (b. 1851), Arthur Florence, Ben- Sarah E.=Wm.J. 
 
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 antiquarian (b.1855) 
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 Florence D. 
 
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 Percy W. 
 Cecil W. 
 
 Sybil R. 
 
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 the Rector of St Peters) has exhibited a staunch adhesion to the Baptist 
 denomination in Nottingham, of which body they have proved munificent 
 patrons. To the joint efforts of the Smith and Ward families, the Baptist 
 chapels in Derby Road and George Street, as well as the Nottingham Baptist 
 cemetery, in a large degree owe their existence. Mr James Ward's name is 
 widely known as a connoisseur, he having presented a collection of objects of 
 art to the Nottingham Museum ; and equally as a zealous and able anti- 
 quarian, and collector of mediseval MSS. and autographs, whereof he possesses 
 some ve.ry notable specimens, including two unpublished poems by Kirke 
 White, and a letter from Samuel Smith, draper, dated Nov. 30, 1700, to Robert 
 Hacker, High Sheriff of Notts, offering to provide the javelin men with 
 banners for their trumpets.
 
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 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 SMITH OF BATTLE FLATT, LEICESTERSHIEE ] 
 
 From Thomas Smith of Battle Flatt (b. circa 1680), by his wife, Alice, came 
 Thomas (b. 1717), who married Mary Nixon, and by her had Thomas (b. 1740), 
 whose wife was Eliza Ward. Their son, Henry of Cressy Hall, Spalding (1767- 
 1843), by Jane Robinson, had John of Cressy Hall (1798-1875), who married a 
 cousin in Ann, dau. of Henry Smith, Esq. of Stamford. By her he had John 
 Newbald of Loughborough (b. 1826), who, by Caroline Hasley, had John 
 Hasley Smith, born 1860, at Loughborough, and now of Nottingham. 
 
 Battle Flatt would appear to be the actual site of the battle of Bosworth 
 Field. 
 
 SMITH OF BUCKTON PAKK* 
 
 41 Squire" Smith, a celebrated Master = A dau. of Pritchard of Tickleton Hall, 
 
 of Hounds, of Buckton Park, Leint- 
 wardine (ob. 1762), buried at 
 Leintwardine. M.I. in the chancel. 
 
 Salop. 
 
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 1840), s.p., 
 
 
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 1845) of 
 
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 buried at 
 
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 Leintwar- 
 
 
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 Charlotte 
 
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 Thomas of 
 
 Esq. 
 
 
 
 
 
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 William (ob. 1852), = Elizabeth Amiss 
 
 buried at Monk- 
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 of Ludlow (ob. 
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 Anne (1820-43), = Charles Price 
 buried at of Tenbury. 
 
 Boraston, 
 s.p. 
 
 William = Jane S. Betts Anne (b. 1843] =(1865) John 
 
 (1842-72), of Llandrindod. 
 s.p. 
 
 Both buried at 
 Llandrindod. 
 
 Thomas, eldest son of 
 Andrew Chambers, Esq. 
 of Orton Waterville, and 
 grandson of John Cham- 
 bers, Esq., Deputy-Lieut, 
 for Huntingdonshire 
 (1836-89), buried at Leint- 
 wardine. 
 
 Anne Amiss (1845- 
 47), buried at 
 Leintwardine. 
 
 * This family possessed property at Walford in Leintwardine prior to 1762 
 and until recently. I regret that I have not been able to trace the descent 
 directly farther than the locally celebrated Squire of Buckton, whose hounds 
 evoked the muse of some rhymester, unknown to fame, as thus : 
 
 SQUIRE SMITH AND HIS HOUNDS, BUCKTON PARK, HEREFORDSHIRE. 
 
 The morning was frosty, and the wind lying still, 
 The sun shone with splendour over valley and hill,
 
 ENGLISH PEDIGREES 159 
 
 SMITH OF BLEANSLEY 
 
 Richard, living circa 1780 = Mary Wordsworth, aunt of the poet. 
 
 Richard Wordsworth = Martha, dau. of ... Fell of Ulverstone by ... dau. 
 
 of ... Irton of Irton Hall. 
 
 Richard (ob. 1861) = (1852) Catherine Ann Parrey. 
 
 Richard Wordsworth. Rev. Irton, M. A. Edward Iggulden Emily Martin. 
 V. of St Mar- (s.p.) 
 
 garet, Ilkley, 
 Rural Dean of 
 Otter. 
 
 AKMS of Smith of Bleansley : Sa. , on a fesse engrailed or, between S 
 squirrels sejant arg. , each holding a marigold slipped proper, as 
 many heraldic fountains. 
 
 CREST : On a mount vert, a squirrel as in the arms, charged on the body with 
 an heraldic fountain. 
 
 When Smith, that famed sportsman, assembled his hounds, 
 To chase hotly Reynard, so fleet o'er the ground. 
 Chorus To chase, &c. 
 
 Hounds, horses, and men in condition being high, 
 They were fully intending bold Reynard to try ; 
 Their steeds pranced gaily, and the hounds seemed to play 
 Not expecting such sport as they witnessed that day. 
 Chorus Not expecting, &c. 
 
 They dragged thro' each brier, each bramble, each brake ; 
 If bold Reynard had started, his life was at stake ; 
 But his mettle lay still, and they did little good, 
 Till his highness broke cover in Stoke Castle's Wood. 
 
 " Ha ! ha ! " says bold Reynard, " is Smith here to-day ? 
 By the hounds and the horses, 'tis Smith, I dare say ; 
 And if it be Smith, I shall meet with disgrace, 
 So adieu to Stokes Wood, my old hiding-place. " 
 
 He then gave a double came back by Old Hall, 
 And at Cromagearin he gave them a call ; 
 He ranged Radnor Forest with a fleet, panting breath, 
 When a few moments more brought the scene of hia death. 
 
 Thro' three noble counties in style he had come, 
 And parishes sixteen his old slyness had run ; 
 Now in a farm-yard he of life is bereft, 
 So the eyes of bold Reynard here close in death. 
 
 We will drink a full bumper, and the toast shall go round, 
 Here's long life to brave Smith, and success to his hounds.
 
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 161 
 
 SMITH OF HELMSHORE 
 
 Smith of Ulverstone, born circa, 1720= ... Hall of Nangreave, Bury. 
 
 John of Bury = Betty, dau. of Daniel Leach, Esq. 
 (1767-1842). (1773-1812). 
 
 Thomas, J.P. of = Mary, dau. of Thomas Kay, Esq. 
 
 Flaxmoss in 
 
 Haslingden 
 
 (1796-1880). 
 
 of Flaxmoss (by Mary Holden), 
 a descendant of the Cheshire 
 Bradshaws, of whom the Regi- 
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 Alice 
 (1794- 
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 Richard Ellen 
 (1802-75) (1810- 
 56). 
 
 John (1) 
 (1822-23). 
 
 1 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 (1823-91). Howorth Leach 
 of Green- (1827- 
 hill, Ba- 28). 
 cup. (Issue, 
 3 sons, 4 
 daughters. ) 
 
 John (2) Alice Eliza Kezia 
 
 (1829- (1830- (1832- (1835- 
 
 29). 47). 94). 35). 
 
 George Ash worth = Mary, dau. of Henry H. 
 (b. 1836). Stott, Esq. (b. 1845). 
 
 Richard Leach William H. 
 (1839-40). (b. 1841). 
 
 Mary Louisa = John Hall. Henry Ashworth. Percy. George Arnold 
 (Issue 3 sons, 4 daughters. ) Rossell. Wycliffe. 
 
 ARMS of Smith of Ulverstone : Ptan, on a fesse engrailed or, between S 
 squirrels sejant argent, each holding a marigold slipped proper, a 
 stag's head erased azure between two heraldic fountains. 
 
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 162 
 
 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 SMITH OF ASTLEY, LANGS. 
 
 William, son of ... Smith of Astley= ... Ward, 
 and Butt's Bridge, Bedfordleigh. I 
 
 John = (at Deane) Ann, dau. of ... Cle worth of Astley, by Nancy, dau. 
 of ... Wharmby. 
 
 Rev. Solomon, M.A., Fellow of St John's, = Barbara Anne Robson of Exning, 
 Camb., Minor Canon of Ely, V. of St Suff. 
 
 Mary's, Ely. 
 
 Rev. Kenelm Henry, Curate of =1867 Frances A. P., dau. of Barbara Anne 
 Chettisham, Ely, late scholar H. Winter of Colyton, Devon, (ob. s.p.). 
 of St John's, Cambridge. by ... dau. of ... Sampson, Esq. 
 
 SMITH OF GOLDICOTE 
 
 George of Goldicote = (l796) Frances, co-heiress of T. Grace Smith of 
 
 Normanton Turville. 
 
 George (1) Sarah, = Captain Gus- = (2) Caroline 
 
 Captain =(1840) Hon. 
 
 Stavely= ... dau. of 
 
 tavus T. 
 
 S., widow 
 
 William 
 
 Emily A., 
 
 (Issue.) Rev. N. (1800-75). 
 
 of Sir J. 
 
 Corbet 
 
 dau. of 4th 
 
 Yates 
 
 
 Mordaunt. 
 
 of 
 
 Viscount 
 
 (s.p.). 
 
 
 
 Bittes- 
 
 Boling- 
 
 
 
 
 well 
 
 broke. 
 
 
 
 
 Hall 
 
 
 
 
 
 (ob. 
 
 
 
 2 dau. 
 
 1847). 
 
 
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 of Walcote, 
 
 of Mark Synot, 
 
 Taylor, Esq. 
 
 Leicester 
 
 Esq. 
 
 
 (b. 1845). 
 
 
 
 Ada E. Corbet. 
 
 Charles Sergison of Consell = 
 Hall, Stafford, 1st 
 Dragoon Guards 
 (1803-77). 
 
 = (1834) Georgiana, dau. of 
 Hon. Herbert Gardner, 
 son of Alan, 1st Lord 
 Gardner. 
 
 ! 1 
 
 Francis Frances 
 (s.p.). (s.p.). 
 
 Captain Hyde = (1878) Jane, dau. of Rev. Walter F. =Mary L. C., dau. of 
 
 Sergison (b. 
 1838). 
 
 Isaac Kempson, Esq. , 
 of Cotton Hall. 
 
 (b. 1845). 
 
 Herbert C. (b. 1880). 
 
 Mrs B. Durant. 
 
 Percy. 
 
 2 dau. 
 
 Lieut. -Col. Charles Holled = Mary, dau. of Henry Florence Cornwall, 
 (b. 1846). Scott, Esq. 
 
 ARMS : Arg., on a bend between 2 unicorns' heads erased az., 3 lozenges or. 
 CREST : A unicorn's head erased sa. 
 MOTTO : Virtus in arduis.
 
 ENGLISH PEDIGREES 163 
 
 SMITH OF THINGHILL COURT 
 
 A Smith migrated from Derbyshire in 1760 to 
 Staunton-on- Arrow, Herefordshire. His son was of 
 Hurstley in Kynnersley, and married ... daughter 
 of ... Beaven, Esq., of Monkland. This gentleman had 
 a son, from whom descend the Smiths of Woonton 
 in Almeley ; a second son from whom was Smith of 
 Bidney in Dilwyn, whence the Smiths respectively of 
 Monkton, Ocle Pychard, Gathertop, and Hope-under- 
 Dinmore. The third son, John of Kenchester Court 
 (1792-1878) = Honoria Ferrer of Dilwyn and Weobley 
 (1812-98), and by her had (I) John William (b. 1847), 
 now of Thinghill Court, J.P., C.C. ; (2) George Henry 
 (b. 1853); (3) Jane Honoria (b. 1850) = 1875, Francis 
 Hawkins, Esq., of Sugwas Court, J.P., C.C., and 
 has issue. 
 
 Arms of Smith of Derbyshire, vide Vincent's 
 " Derbyshire," 1634 : Azure, a chevron between 3 
 leopards' heads erased or, charged with pellets. 
 Crest uncertain. But Grazebrook gives a grant of 
 Cooke Clarencieux, 1585 (Harl. MSS., 1069), to 
 William Smith, barrister of Derbyshire viz. : Gules, 
 six lozenges in fesse between three maidens' heads 
 affronters proper, crined or. Crest : On a mount 
 vert, a castle or, between two branches proper. And 
 it is to be remarked that either of the above coats 
 differ from that of Smith of Duffield, Derbyshire 
 viz. : Sable, a fesse dancettee between three lions 
 rampant, each supporting a garb, all or. Probably 
 the coat ascribed by Vincent to four generations prior 
 to 1634 is the true coat of the Derbyshire Smiths, 
 from whom descend the Smiths of Thinghill Court. 
 N.B. The term "Court" in the west of England 
 represents ' ' ancient Manor House, " as distinguished 
 from any mansion of later erection. Mr J. W. Smith,
 
 164 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 the present representative of the family, acquired the 
 estate of Thinghill by purchase from a family named 
 Higgins. 
 
 THE DESCENT OF SIR SIDNEY SMITH 
 
 (THE HEKO OF ACRE) 
 
 Captain Edward Smith, R.N. 
 (mortally wounded in the attack on La Guaya, 1743). 
 
 John, a captain in the Guards = (1766) (unhappily), Mary, dau. of 
 
 Pinckney Wilkinson of Han- 
 over Square, merchant, whose 
 sister, Ann = 1771, the 1st 
 Lord Camelford. 
 
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 Charles Spencer, Admiral Sir William 
 
 Ambassador to Sidney (1764- 
 
 The Porte. 1840). 
 
 SMITH OF LANGUARD 
 
 John of Languard = Anne, dau. of Henry Roach, Esq. 
 
 Major Henry. Charles Roach (1807-90). 
 
 SMITH OF GLOUCESTER 
 
 Rev. Martin Stafford Smith = Elizabeth, widow of Bishop Warburton. 
 
 John Stafford, composer (1750-1836) (vide chapter on 
 " Celebrities of the Name "). 
 
 SMITH OF TWYFORD, HANTS 
 
 George Smith of Twyford (b. circa 1775 d. 1836) = ... 
 
 ISSUE. 
 
 (1) George of Owslebury (1803-45) = Elizabeth Hewitt of Southsea, and by 
 her had (1) Elizabeth Mary (b. 1835), (2) Sabina (1837-96) = Thomas Prime. 
 
 (2) Peter of Barnsworth, Hants (181 1-91) = Sarah Ann Janaway, and by 
 her had Elizabeth = Richard Morley ; James Francis ; William ; Kathleen 
 (b. 1871). 
 
 (3) Stephen of Owslebury (1813-75) = (1) Elizabeth Doll, (2) Elizabeth Hill, 
 but left no issue. 
 
 (4) William of Cheriton (1815-1901) = Mary Hailstone, and by her had 
 Frank John (b. 1841); George (1843-62); Mary Anne (1845-1901) = William 
 Poole of Southampton ; Sophia (b. 1861) = Benjamin Mould of Cheriton. '
 
 ENGLISH PEDIGREES 
 
 165 
 
 (5) Giles of Alresford (1821-74) = Julia Holland of Alresford, and by her 
 had Henry Frederick (1842-97) = Ellen Goodall of Ropley ; George (1843-62) = 
 Kate Sapham ; Isabel (b. 1867) = William Wedge of Winchester ; Kate (b. 1871) 
 = Edward Wedge of Winchester. 
 
 (6) Mary (1805-56) = Richard Thompson. 
 
 (7) Ann (1809-74) = William Holdaway. 
 
 (8) Harriet (1817-85) = Joseph Hobby. 
 
 (9) Charlotte (1816-82) = William Pearce. 
 (10) Sabina (1819-91) = David Turner. 
 
 The remarkable characteristic of this Hampshire family is that of being 
 smiths by profession as well as Smiths by name. Within the past half 
 century they have contributed at least a dozen stalwarts to the good old 
 trade of farrier, and it may be affirmed confidently that the late revered 
 Queen boasted no more useful subjects. 
 
 SMITH OF ORCHESTON, WILTS 
 
 George Smith of Orcheston (living in 1810). 
 
 A son, of Stoke = . . . 
 Newington. 
 
 Elizabeth Valis = ( 1 868) (at the Congregl. 
 
 (b. 1841),bapt. 
 at Spetisbury, 
 Dorset. 
 
 Elizabeth = Frank Dudderidge (b. at Blandford 
 
 Valia. 1869), son of Henry Dudderidge of 
 
 Blandford, Principal of the School 
 
 of Pharmacy, Newcastle-on-Tyne. 
 
 Chapel, Blandford), 
 Henry, 4th son of 
 Robert and Fanny 
 Dudderidge of Ray 
 Hill, Burland, Somer- 
 set. 
 
 Issue. 
 
 SMITH OF SOUTH SHIELDS 
 
 John Smith of South Shields, = Elizabeth, dau. of R. Foster 
 
 a ship's chandler who is said 
 to have worked at Wool- 
 wich side by side with Peter 
 the Great of Russia, and 
 who left as an heirloom a 
 Russian wicker-basket, a 
 present from the Czar, which 
 basket is in the possession 
 of his descendant, Bernard 
 P. Scattergood, Esq. 
 
 (b. 1746). 
 
 (1) Rev. Thomas Scattergood, = Jane = (2) .. 
 Minister of the Wesleyan 
 New Connection. 
 
 A son = . . . 
 
 Bernard P. Scattergood of Leeds, M.I.E.E.
 
 166 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 SMITH OF TODDINGTON, GLOUCESTERSHIRE 
 
 William Smith of Toddington (d. 1741) -Mary ... 
 
 1 
 
 1 1 
 
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 1 
 
 Mary 
 
 William Rebecca 
 
 Henry = Ann Sysum John 
 
 Charles 
 
 (b. ' 
 
 (b. 1719). (b. 1721). 
 
 (1722- 
 
 of Greet. (b. 
 
 (b. 
 
 1717). 
 
 
 89). 
 
 1724). 
 
 1725). 
 
 John Sy sum = Mary Sysum. 
 
 (b. 1754) of 
 Toddington. 
 
 Mary (b. 1760)= John 
 Chadburn of Winchcomb. 
 
 Mary John Henry William = 
 (b. (b. (b. (b. 1797) 
 1789). 1792) 1795). of Mal- 
 of Hoghton pas. 
 Towers. 
 Buried at 
 Fleetwood. 
 
 - Elizabeth Morley Charles Joseph 
 of Bishops (b. (b. 
 Burton. 1804). 1807). 
 
 Henry = 
 (b. 1824). 
 
 = ... John = 
 (b. 
 1826). 
 
 1 
 = ... Ann 
 (b. 
 
 1828). 
 
 William = 
 (1830- 
 97). 
 
 Issue- 
 and 5 
 
 =(1855) Leah 
 Taylor of 
 Pilkington. 
 
 5 sons 
 daus. 
 
 George 
 (b. 1833). 
 
 Mary (b. 
 (b. 1835). 
 
 Charles 
 (b. 1837), 
 left 2 sons. 
 
 Thomas William Fanny. Issue 3 
 Sysum H. children, 
 of High 
 Wycombe. 
 
 This family for generations were gamekeepers to various noblemen and 
 gentlemen. They appear to have been of good repute, four in succession 
 having been keepers at Toddington Park. 
 
 SMITH OF THE GROVE IN CROPWELL BOTELER 
 
 Rev. ... Smith, curate, or minister of Cotgrave, 1762=... 
 
 Rev. Henry, = . . . Morris of 
 
 curate of 
 Cotgrave. 
 
 Cotgrave. 
 
 Rev. Edward, rector 
 of Tollerton. s.p. 
 
 Henry, now = Miss Butler. 
 
 of Cropwell 
 
 Boteler. 
 
 2 sons. 
 
 Edward = Miss Barlow 
 of Cotgrave. 
 
 Issue. 
 
 Rev. John, vicar 
 of Aldercar. s.p. 
 
 A dau. = . . . Pearson 
 of Shef- 
 field. 
 
 Mr Henry Smith, the present Lord of the Manor of Cropwell Boteler, is a 
 J.P., and a well-known breeder of Lincolnshire rams. Although situate in a 
 village from whence sprung the great family of banker Smiths, he does not 
 appear to share their blood ; and a member of the latter family has recently 
 repurchased the farm which formed the estate in Cropwell Boteler of the 
 yeoman John, whose son Thomas, marrying Fortune, the daughter of Abel 
 Collin, Cromwell's gunner, settled in Nottingham.
 
 ENGLISH PEDIGREES 167 
 
 SMITH OF TENBURY 
 
 Thomas of Tenbury, living circa 1810 = Sarah ... 
 
 James Thomas = Phoebe . . . 
 of Clifton on I 
 Teme. 
 
 James Thomas = Jemima . . . 
 of Felton I 
 
 James Thomas. 
 
 1 
 Joseph. 
 
 William George. 
 
 1 
 John. Thomas. 
 
 1 
 Harry. 
 
 ice Ma 
 
 Mary Anne May. Phoebe. Albert Edward. Charles. Alice Maud. 
 
 SMITH OF HORSHAM 
 
 Charles, son of ... Smith of The Chantry, Horsham, left issue 
 
 (1) Rev. Charles Adam, vicar of Macclesfield. 
 
 (2) Robert. 
 
 (3) William Henry. 
 
 (4) George Frederick. 
 
 (5) Edmund James. 
 
 (6) Caroline. 
 
 (7) Maria. 
 
 (8) Sophia. 
 
 Edmund James Smith, the youngest son, left issue by ..., dau. of John 
 Noble, Esq. , Governor of York Castle 
 
 (1) Herbert Edmund (b. 1846), educated at Eton. s.p. 
 
 (2) Charles John (b. Jan. 14th, 1848), educated at Harrow. 
 
 (3) Amy Margaret = Spencer Gore, Esq. 
 
 (4) Gertrude Caroline = Col. Shepherd, 9th Norfolk Regiment. 
 
 (5) Arthur Frederick Wellington, and Trin. Coll. Camb. 
 
 (6) Reginald William Rugby, and Christ Church, Oxford. 
 
 (7) George Cecil (died 1900). 
 
 (8) Mabel Hannah. 
 
 (9) Harry Griffith. 
 
 (10) Percy Robert. 
 
 (11) Ethel. 
 
 SMITH OF WAVERTREE 
 
 David Smith of Wavertree = . . . Lathom of Ormskirk. 
 
 a Roman Catholic (1779- 
 
 1850). 
 
 ... Smith of Wavertree = ... 5 other sons. 3 daus. 
 
 I 
 Clement of Bowdon. 
 
 SMITH OF LEOMINSTER 
 
 ... Smith of Abergavenny (living in 1760). 
 James of Abergavenny (b. 1780). 
 James of Aston Ingham. 
 Thomas of Leominster.
 
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 170 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 SMITH OF STOKE DOYLE AND OUNDLE 
 
 John Smith of Stoke Doyle, living in the eighteenth century, was twice 
 married. He left, with others, a son, John of Stoke Doyle, contemporary, 
 and presumably kinsman, of Thomas Smith of the Chapter House, concerning 
 whom presently. 
 
 By Mary Morris of Stoke Doyle the younger John Smith had (A ) John, 
 D.L. and J.P., of Northants, who married (1) Miss Staples, but by her had 
 no issue. He married (2) Sarah B. E. Smith (vide infra), daughter of Thomas 
 Smith of the Chapter House, by Sarah Sellon, and by her had (1) Sarah M. = 
 Charles Cowdell ; (2) John William = Editha Hume, and by her had (a) Ruth 
 M.=Rev. W. R. Frith; (b) Sarah L.=Rev. W. W. Baillie; (c) John H. = 
 Mary Taylor ; (d) George, died in infancy; (e) Edmund P.; (/) Marian H. ; 
 (g) Helen E.; (A) Frederick H.; (i) Margaret A.; (3) Emma S.^Rev. C. H. 
 Bingham ; (4) Edward, died in infancy; (5) George Percival, J.P., D.L. for 
 Herefordshire, who assumed the name of Percival in addition to Smith, 
 and married Martha, daughter of G. Capron, Esq. of Southwick Hall, 
 by whom he had (a) Martha B.; (b) Mary L. = Colonel Strong of Hodson's 
 Horse; (c) Ellen G.; (d) Alice H.; (e) Edith H.=R. L. Howard; (/) Rev. 
 H. P. = Elizabeth M. Parker; (g) Capron H. (ob. 1860), M.I., Eaton Bishop; 
 (h) Dorothy M. A. =C. S. Hoare ; (i) Ethel F. =Rev. J. Cropper ; (;) Evelyn 
 E.; (6) Elizabeth E. = R. G. B. Sellon; (7) Paulina L.; (8) Herbert S., s.p.; 
 (9) Anna H. =Rev. G. H. Capron of Southwick Hall, Oundle. (B) Thomas - 
 Ann York. (C) Ann=Richard Tibbits. (D) Elizabeth = Gervase Tibbits. 
 
 (E) Frederick = Helen, daughter of Rev. R. M. Boultbee, Vicar of Barn well. 
 
 (F) William = Ann Morris, and by her had John of Babbacombe = Helen 
 Somerset, of the Beaufort family. 
 
 We now revert to Thomas Smith of the Chapter House. By Sarah Sellon 
 he had (1) Thomas Sellon, s.p.; (2) Sarah Bridget, who married John Smith of 
 Stoke Doyle (vide supra) ; (3) Anna S. M. = Thomas A. Cock ; (4) Peter Baker, 
 Captain R.N., who assumed his mother's name (Sellon). By his first wife 
 Priscilla L., daughter of Rev. S. White, Rector of Clerkenwell, he had 
 (a) Anna = Rev. R. Joynes ; (b) William = Margaret, daughter of A. Storer, 
 Esq. of Purley Park, Herts, and by her had Rev. William S. = Margaret 
 Turner ; Katherine A. ; Priscilla L. ; Stephanie ; Stephen W. = Mary A. 
 M'Dougal ; Cicely; Anthony G. ; Herbert P.; (c) Lydia, s.p. Captain 
 Sellon=(2) Patty Pybus of Bath, s.p.; (5) Rev. Edward J., Rector of Stan- 
 more=Anna, daughter of Rev. S. White; (6) George = Maria De la C. 
 Navarro ; (7) Elizabeth L. = Percival N. Johnson; (8) Paulina = (i) Rev. 
 R. Whittington, (ii) Rev. R. Watts; (9) Baker P., barrister = Caroline 
 Hennah. 
 
 ARMS OF SMITH OF OUNDLE (vide Grazebrook)': Per chevron gu. and arg. t 
 in chief two garbs or, in base a horse's head erased of the first. 
 
 CREST : Within an annulet gu. , a garb or. 
 MOTTO : Honeste fortiter. 
 
 PEDIGREE OF DR SMITH, PROVOST OF 
 QUEEN'S COLLEGE 
 
 ARMS : A shield of nine quarterings. 1. Smith, as on the hatchments in 
 Kidlington Church. 2. Plantagenet, within a bordure gobonnd, 
 and a canton. 3. Worn out. 4. Ermine, on a canton argent a 
 cross Calvary. 5. Argent, a lion rampant sable. 6. Gules, three 
 lucies hauriant argent. 1. Sable, three escallop shells, within a 
 bordure engrailed argent. 8. Sable, three covered cups argent. 
 9. Or, two bars gules, in dexter corner a mullet pierced. 
 
 This shield is over the tablet to Dr Joseph Smith and his wife.
 
 ENGLISH PEDIGREES 
 
 171 
 
 John Smith of Knaresbro', died 36 Elizabeth = . . . Tolson. 
 
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 Matthew Smith, of Knaresbro', = Anne Roundle, dau. of an 
 
 co. York, one of the Council 
 of the North (d. 1640). 
 
 Alderman of Leeds. 
 
 William Smith, M.A., of Clare Coll., -Elizabeth, dau. of Giles Wetherall, 
 Camb., rector of Ingleton, Yorks. of Stockton-on-Tees. 
 
 5th son, Joseph Smith, M.A., of Oxford = Mary, dau., and co-heiress with 
 
 (1696), D.D., Provost of Queen's (1730). 
 Born at Lowther, 10th October 1670. 
 Died in Oxford, 1756, aged 
 
 Barbara Wilson, of Henry Low- 
 ther, Esq., of Ingleton Hall 
 (d. 1745). Buried at Kidlington. 
 
 Anne = Major James 
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 ford,bur. at Kidling- 
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 Rev. Joseph Smith 
 Hargreaves, buried 
 at Kidlington, 1807. 
 
 (1) Lydia, only= 
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 Barnay, late of 
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 1745, and was 
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 cel at Kidling- 
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 Joseph, LL.D., 
 married 5th 
 June 1740, in 
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 don, bur. at 
 Kidlington, 
 10th October 
 1776. 
 
 Mary Fleming, 
 d. April 1742. 
 
 Joseph, 
 d. April 8, 1743. 
 
 (2) Elizabeth, only 
 dau. of James 
 Bouchier, LL. D. , 
 of Hanborough, 
 and of Elizabeth 
 Harris (parents 
 buried in St Mic- 
 hael's, Oxford), 
 married in Queen's 
 College, Dec. 1750, 
 buried at Kidling- 
 ton, 18th July 
 1777- 
 
 Elizabeth, born at 
 Hanborough, 16th 
 Aug. 1751, died July 
 12,1757. 
 
 Mary Anne, born 
 in Magdalen 
 Coll., Oxford, 
 1752, bur. at 
 Kidlington, 
 1752. 
 
 Mary, born in Ox- = (1783) Captain 
 
 ford, 1753, died 
 1789, bur. in 
 Greenwich Hos- 
 pital. 
 
 George Anson 
 Nutt. 
 
 Three sons and one daughter. 
 
 Joseph Bouchier,* born Harris, born 
 in Oxford, 1758, ma tri- in Oxford, 
 culated at Queen's 
 Coll., 1775 = daughter 
 of Lord Coventry, no 
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 17611 = a 
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 Bouchier. 
 no issue. 
 
 Susanna, born Elizabeth, 
 in Oxford, born in Ox- 
 1762. ford, 1763. 
 
 (Both died unmarried. ) 
 
 Thomas, 
 born in 
 Oxford, 
 1766, 
 bur. at 
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 fant. 
 
 [Part of the above pedigree supplied by the courtesy of Dr Magrath, Provost 
 of Queen's College. ] 
 
 * In The Gentleman's Magazine, Dec. 29, 1822, occurs the following : " While 
 on a visit to the Earl of Coventry, at Worcester, John ' Bouchier' Smith, Esq. 
 He, while sealing a letter, was attacked with spasms in the chest, which in 
 a few moments terminated his existence." 
 
 t In Burke's "Ext. Baronetage," under "Sidley," Harris Smith is said to 
 have been admitted to Winchester College about 1772 as Founder's Kin.
 
 172 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 SMITH ALS EAEDLEY, ALS LEFEVRE, BAETS. 
 
 Thomas Smith of Hadley, Middlesex (whose ancestors of the name of 
 Lefevre came from France, temp. Elizabeth, and assumed the cognomen of 
 Smith), died in 1740, leaving an only son, 
 
 Thomas Smith of Hadley, merchant (ob. 1744) = Culling, sister and co- 
 heir of John Home, Esq., Governor of Bombay, leaving issue, 
 
 1. Thomas of Evesham, Worcester (ob. without male issue, 1798), 
 
 leaving two daughters, Louisa and Harriet. 
 
 2. Culling, created a baronet. 
 
 3. William, a captain in the E.I.C.'s naval service = Sarah, 
 
 daughter of Humphry Sumner, D.D., Provost of King's 
 College, Cambridge, and had issue Sumner, in holy orders ; 
 William Richard, R.N. ; Sarah = Rev. W. Stackhouse of 
 Modbury, Devon ; Anna-Maria, and Charlotte. 
 
 4. Charles, Governor of Madras = (1) Elizabeth Carvalho (of the 
 
 Portuguese family of Pombal), by whom he had a son, Charles, 
 an officer of the 59th Foot, who died at Gibraltar ; and (2) 
 Zabier Charlotte, daughter of James Law, Esq. (of the Laws 
 of Lauriston), by whom he had a son, 
 Culling Charles = (1799) Lady Anne Fitzroy, widow of the 
 Hon. Henry Fitzroy, and daughter of Garret Wellesley, 
 Earl of Mornington, by whom he had Frederick and 
 Emily Frances = ( 1822) Henry, Duke of Beaufort. Mr 
 Culling Charles Smith died May 26, 1853. 
 
 5. Anne, died unmarried. 
 
 6. Elizabeth = John Munro, D.D., and died 1802. 
 
 7. Maria = Rev. John Burrows, LL.D. 
 
 8. Frances = Rev. Charles Jeffreys Cottrell. 
 The second son, 
 
 1. Culling Smith, Esq. (1731-1812), created baronet December 
 
 20, 1802. He = Mary, daughter of John Burrows, and 
 sister of Rev. Dr Burrows, Rector of Hadley and St Clement 
 Danes, Middlesex, by whom (who died April 5, 1782) he had 
 (with a daughter Louisa = Rev. Thomas Rivett of Maresfield, 
 Sussex) an only surviving son, Culling. 
 
 2. Sir Culling (b. 1769) = (September 22, 1792) Charlotte Elizabeth, 
 
 co-heiress of Sampson,* Lord Eardley, by whom (who died 
 September 15, 1826) he had Culling Eardley, third baronet ; 
 Maria Charlotte = (October 30, 1826) Rev. Eardley Childers, 
 who died at Nice in 1831 ; and Louisa Selina (ob. 1852). 
 
 3. Sir Culling-Eardley Smith (assumed the names and arms of 
 
 Eardley in lieu of Smith, 1847) (b. 1805) = Isabella, daughter 
 of Carr of Eshott, and by her had Eardley Gideon Culling, 
 Frances Selina, Isabella Maria. 
 
 DESCENT OF THE DEAN OF CHEIST CHUECH 
 
 By Christian, daughter of Rev. E. Pain of Winchester, Samuel Smith of 
 Westminster, an alleged descendant of the Regicide (Henry Smith of With- 
 cote), had Rev. Samuel, LL.D., Headmaster and Prebendary of Westminster, 
 Prebendary of Peterborough, Rector, Patron, and Squire of Dry Drayton, 
 Cambs. (1731-1841), whose son, Very Rev. Samuel, D.D. (1765-1841), became 
 Dean of Christ Church and Prebendary of Durham. His son, Rev. Charles, 
 M.A., Christ Church (1817-55), was Vicar of E. Garston and Rector of 
 Boothby, and his son, Rev. C. Fullerton, M.A., Christ Church (b. 1848), is 
 now Vicar of Lund, Lane. 
 
 * Sir Sampson Gideon of Spalding, created Bart., 1759, and Lord Eardley, 
 1789, left as co-heiresses (1) Maria Mason = George W., Lord Saye and Sele; 
 (2) Char lotte= Culling Smith, afterwards Sir Culling Smith ; and (3) Selina= 
 Childers of Cantley.
 
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 SCOTTISH PEDIGREES 
 SMYTHE OF METHVEN CASTLE 
 
 Thomas Smythe or Smithe, M.D., living in 1477, Principal Physician 
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 SCOTTISH PEDIGREES 
 
 177 
 
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 SCOTTISH PEDIGREES 181 
 
 George Smith (b. 1833), LL.D., C.I.E., etc., etc., 
 the father of this numerous and distinguished pro- 
 geny, has had a very distinguished career. He was 
 Principal of Doveton College, Calcutta, editor of The 
 Friend of India, Indian correspondent of the Times, 
 editor of "Annals of Indian Administration," and 
 was created C.I.E. Jan. 1, 1877, for his valuable ser- 
 vices to the Indian Empire. He is also the biographer 
 of Dr Carey, the missionary, Henry Martyn, Bishop 
 Heber, Dr John Wilson, Indian Philanthropist, Dr 
 Duff, Stephen Hislop, and Dr Somerville, and has 
 further written "The Student's Geography of India," 
 " The Conversion of India," " Twelve Indian States- 
 men," and "A Short History of Christian Missions." 
 The university of Edinburgh conferred upon him the 
 honorary degree of LL.D. in 1878. 
 
 SMITH OF PAISLEY 
 
 James Smith of Paisley, the founder of this line = 
 (1730) Jean, daughter of ... Renfrew, Esq., and by 
 her had James, known as " Citizen Smith " of Paisley 
 (1769-1847) = Henrietta, daughter of ... Taylor, Esq. 
 By her, with others who were styled collectively 
 J. & H. Smith & Co., Manufacturing Chemists of 
 Edinburgh, he had James (1792-1889) = Annie, 
 daughter of ... Preston, Esq. Their son James 
 (1816-86), established the eminent firm of iron- 
 masters, Smith & Wellstood, and by her had William 
 Macadam Smith (b. 1860), who, retiring from busi- 
 ness in 1896, purchased the estate of Abbotsfield in 
 Wiveliscombe. He = (1883) Helena Jane, daughter 
 of ... Ross, Esq., and by her had Robina Metta; 
 Dorothy Wells ; Ida Jean. Mr Macadam Smith is 
 a J.P. for Somerset and a Commissioner of Supply 
 for Lanarkshire.
 
 CHAPTEK IX 
 
 IRISH PEDIGREES 
 SMITH, LATEE CUSAC-SMITH, BAKTS. 
 
 Joseph Smith of Kilbride = (1680) Elizabeth Wilkinson. 
 
 Michael of Bally- = . . . 
 naskea (ob. 1747). 
 
 Issue 6 sons. 
 
 Joseph of Pick- = . . . 
 fordstown (ob. 
 
 1780). 
 
 Issue 2 daus. 
 
 William = Hester Lynch. 
 
 (1) Mary Anne, dau. of = Right Hon. Sir Michael = Eleanor, dau. of 
 
 Jas. Cusac, 
 
 Esq. 
 
 (1769-1808). Baron 
 of the Exchequer, 
 1793; Bart, of Ire- 
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 Michael Smith, 
 Esq. 
 
 The Hon. Sir: 
 William, 
 D.C.L., 
 F.R.S., as- 
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 name of 
 Cusac. Baron 
 of the Irish 
 Exchequer. 
 (1766-1836.) 
 
 = Hester, Angelina (ob. Maj.-Gen. M. William,: 
 dau. of s.p. 1808) = (1) C.B. 
 Thomas Smith, son of 
 Berry of Sir R. Steele. 
 Eglish =(2) William, 
 Castle. son of Sir Kil- 
 dare Borrowes. 
 
 = Charlotte 
 Carr. 
 
 Sir Michael = 
 (1793-1859). 
 
 Eliza 
 Moore. 
 
 Thomas = (1827) Louisa William 
 Berry, Smith Barry Whitmore. 
 Master of Marbury 
 of the and Fota. 
 Rolls in 
 Ireland 
 (ob. 1866). 
 
 Eleanor 
 C.A. 
 
 
 
 1 
 
 Sir Michael 
 Wil- (1828- 
 liam 61). 
 (b. 
 
 1822). 
 
 Mary = H. E., 
 son of Sir H. 
 Hawley, Bart. 
 
 Hester A. 
 (ob. 1863) 
 = Col. 
 Craven Ord. 
 
 William R.= Mary Others. 
 B. Chis- 
 enhale. 
 
 Issue. 
 
 ARMS : Quarterly 1 and 4 (for Smith). Arg. on a bend between 2 unicorns' 
 heads erased az., armed or, 3 lozenges of the last. 2 and 3 (for 
 Cusac). Per pale or and az. afesse counterchanged. 
 
 182
 
 IRISH PEDIGREES 183 
 
 SUPPORTERS : Dexter, A merman sa. crined and garnished or, bearing in 
 his exterior hand a trident of the second. Sinister, A mermaid sa. 
 crined and garnished or, and bearing in her exterior hand a mirror 
 ppr. , framed and handled of the second. 
 
 CREST : In a ducal coronet or a unicorn's head az. armed or. 
 MOTTO : En Dieu est mon espoir. 
 
 THE SMYTHS OF GAYBROOK AND BALLYNATRAY 
 
 There are two great Irish houses of this name 
 viz., of Gaybrook, with its branches, and of Bally - 
 natray, with its branches. 
 
 (^4.) The Gaybrook line commences with William, 
 who migrated to County Down from Rgsedale Abbey, 
 York, temp. James I. He married Mary, a grand- 
 daughter of Sir Thomas Cusac, Irish Lord Chancellor. 
 His grandson James, by Sarah Dawson, had Rev. Cur- 
 rell Smyth, whose second son, Captain Ralph of Bally- 
 macastle, Antrim, by Elizabeth, daughter of Sir R. 
 Hawkesworth, had with Thomas, whence the Drum- 
 cree Smyths, the Right Rev. William, Bishop of Kil- 
 more. He married Mary, daughter of Chief- Justice 
 Sir John Percy, and had with William, whence 
 Smythe of Barbavilla, Archdeacon James, who married 
 Catherine, daughter of Dr Vesey, Archbishop of 
 Tuam. By her he had Ralph, of whom anon ; Edward, 
 Rev. James of Bath, William = Charlotte, daughter 
 of Captain Stewart, and had issue (1) James = Miss 
 J. Ryan. Their son, the Rev. W. St John, Chancellor 
 of Down = Mary, daughter of H. Mant, and had 
 issue; (2) Ralph = A. St G., daughter of Rev. T. A. 
 Brown, and had issue (a) William, who by Mary, 
 daughter of R. Chambers, Esq., of Whitbourne Court, 
 had Edward St George = Marie, daughter of Mons.- 
 De Ligueres ; and Mary St George = Rev. W. G. G 
 Austin, Demy of Magdalen, son of the late Bishop 
 of Antigua ; (b) Thomas Graham ; (c) Colonel
 
 184 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 Ralph. The elder son of Archdeacon Smith- 
 viz., Ralph, High Sheriff of West Meath, 1766 = 
 Judith, daughter of Rh. T. Cramer, Esq., and by 
 her had Ralph of Gaybrook Sheriff, 1790 = (2) 
 Hannah M., and by her had, with others, Ralph of 
 Gaybrook (1800-27), who, dying without issue, was 
 succeeded by his next brother, Robert of Gaybrook 
 (1801-78), Sheriff of West Meath, 1830 = Henrietta 
 F., daughter of Right Rev. Dr Alexander, Bishop of 
 Meath; and by her had (1) Ralph, his successor; (2) 
 Robert S. (b. 1837) = Christina Macpherson, and has 
 issue, Ralph John ; (3) Col. James (b. 1829) = Lucy 
 H., daughter of G. N. Purdon, Esq. ; and three 
 daughters. Mr Ralph Smith (b. 1831), late captain 
 17th Regiment, High Sheriff 1879 = 1861, Hon. Selina 
 Constance, daughter of Kenelm, seventeenth Lord 
 Somerville, Admiral R.N. 
 
 Arms of Smyth of Gaybrook : Arg. on a bend 
 between 2 unicorns' heads couped az., 3 lozenges or. 
 Crest : Out of a ducal coronet or a unicorn's head 
 az. Motto : Exaltabit honore. 
 
 From the parent stem of Gaybrook issue the 
 Smyths of Drumcree, e.g. Thomas of Drumcree, by 
 Elizabeth Hawkesworth, had, with others, William 
 of Drumcree, who married Mary, niece of Dr King, 
 Archbishop of Dublin. By her he had, with Ralph, 
 whence the Smyths of Glananea, Thomas of Drum- 
 cree, who = (l) Alice, daughter of Thomas Nugent, 
 Esq. By her he had William, his successor. He = 
 (2) Miss Purefoy, and = (3) Martha, daughter of 
 Archdeacon Hutchinson, by whom he had a son, 
 Thomas H. Smyth, of whom anon. His elder son, 
 William, M.P. for West Meath, and High Sheriff 
 1770 = (1) Maria, sister to Sir W. Synot, and by her 
 had (1) Robert, his heir; (2) Anne = Hon. R. Roch- 
 fort. He married (2) Miss Maxwell, and by her had 
 William M., J. P., of Drumbeg; James; three daughters.
 
 IRISH PEDIGREES 185 
 
 Mr Smyth, who died in 1827, was succeeded by his 
 son Robert of Drumcree, Sheriff 1823, M.P. for 
 West Meath County, 1826. He = Elizabeth, widow 
 of Major Snodgrass, and sister of Col. Clones, by whom 
 he had Alicia Maria Eliza, wife of Gen. the Hon. 
 Sir Leicester Curzon, youngest son of the first Earl 
 Howe, High Sheriff for West Meath 1872, who, by 
 royal license, 1866, assumed the name and arms of 
 Smyth. This distinguished officer was Military Secre- 
 tary to Lord Raglan in the Crimean war, Commander- 
 in-Chief South Africa 1880, and Governor of the 
 Cape 1883. 
 
 Smyth of Ballynegall descends directly from 
 Thomas Hutchinson Smyth, vide supra, son of 
 Thomas of Drumcree, by Archdeacon Hutchinson. 
 He = 1796, Abigail, daughter of J. Hamilton, Esq. of 
 Belfast, by whom he had, with others, Rev. Thomas 
 (b. 1796) = 1832, Mary A., daughter of A. T. Gibbons, 
 Esq., H.E.I.C.S., by whom he had, with others, 
 Thomas James of Ballynegall, High Sheriff 1858, 
 late captain Westmeath Rifles = 1864, Bessie, fourth 
 daughter of Edward Anketell Jones, Esq., by whom 
 he had Thomas G. H. (b. 1865) ; Ellinor M. H. ; M. 
 G. A. H. Arms of Smyth of Drumcree, the same as 
 Smyth of Gaybrook, with a canton erm. for difference, 
 quartering Curzon. Arms of Smyth of Ballynegall, 
 the same as those of Smyth of Gaybrook. 
 
 Another branch of the Gaybrook stock is Smyth 
 of Glananea. Ralph, second son of William of Drum- 
 cree, by Mary King, purchased the estate of Glananea. 
 He married in 1749, Jane, co-heiress of Anthony 
 Walsh, Esq., by whom he had William Thomas, who 
 = Lucinda, daughter of the Right Hon. T. Loftus, 
 and by her left, with others, Ralph of Glananea 
 (1786-1839), who married Jane, a daughter of T. W. 
 Fitzgerald, Esq., and by her had William Edward 
 of Glananea, High Sheriff 1878, who married in 1880,
 
 186 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 Margaret A. M., daughter of H. M. Smythe of Barba- 
 villa, Esq. Arms of Smyth of Glananea, the same as 
 those of Smyth of Gaybrook. 
 
 Yet another offshoot of the Smyths of Gaybrook 
 exists in Smythe with the final " e " of Barbavilla, 
 e.g. William of Barbavilla (b. 1693) was the youngest 
 son of the Right Rev. William Smyth, Bishop of 
 Kilmore. He married in 1712 Barbara, daughter of 
 Sir G. Ingoldsby, second Baronet, whose wife, Eliza- 
 beth Cromwell, was first cousin of Oliver. His heir, 
 Ralph (1716-90) = Anne, daughter of D. Clarke, 
 Esq., by whom, with others, he had William (1761- 
 1812), who, by Catherine, daughter of W. M. Ogle, 
 Esq., M.P., had, with Ralph his heir, William M., 
 M.P. for Drogheda = 1815, Lady Isabella Howard, 
 daughter of William, third Earl of Wicklow, and 
 had issue ; Henry of Newtown = F. B. Cooke, and 
 had issue; Rev. John = Harriet, daughter of Rev. 
 J. Wyatt, and had issue ; 3 daughters. Ralph 
 Smythe (1786-1815) = Eliza, daughter of M. Lyster, 
 Esq., and by her had (1) William Barlow = Lady 
 Emily Monck; (2) Henry Mathew of Barbavilla = 
 1855, Maria, daughter of Captain, and sister of Sir 
 Charles Coote, Bart., by whom he had (1) Captain 
 William Lyster, R. A. = Agnes M. H., daughter of 
 H. W. Litton, Esq.; (2) Margaret A. M. = W. E. 
 Smyth, Esq., of Glananea, vide supra; (3) Ada M. = 
 (1) C. Bailey, Esq. ; (2) J. H. Dodgson, Esq. (4) L. 
 E. Lyster; (5) F. M. Lyster; (6) L. L. Lyster. (3) 
 Major Frederick = Ellen, daughter of B. Johnson, 
 Esq., of Newcastle, and has issue. Arms of 
 Smythe of Barbavilla same as those of Smyth of 
 Gaybrook. 
 
 (B.) The Ballynatray line commences with Sir 
 Richard Smyth, temp. Elizabeth, who married Mary, 
 sister of Richard Boyle, first Earl of Cork, and by her 
 had, with Catharine = W. F. Supple, ancestor of the
 
 IRISH PEDIGREES 187 
 
 De Capell Brookes, Barts., and two other daughters, 
 Sir Percy of Ballynatray, knighted 1629, Governor of 
 Youghal. He married (1) Mary, daughter of R. 
 Meade, Esq., and by her had Mabella - Sir H. Tynte, 
 M.P.; Jean = B. Ussher, Esq., whose daughter = 
 Francis Smyth of Rathcoursey ; Sir Percy = (2) 
 Isabella, daughter of A. Ussher, Esq., and by her 
 had, with William, his heir, Boyle, M.P., s.p. ; Percy, 
 s.p. ; Richard ; John ; four daughters. 
 
 His elder surviving son William having the estate 
 of Headborough, he bequeathed Ballynatray to his 
 next son, Richard. By his second wife, Alice, 
 daughter of Richard Grice, Esq., he had Grice of 
 Ballynatray = Gertrude, daughter of W. Burton, Esq., 
 whose son, Richard of Ballynatray (1706-68), by 
 Penelope, daughter of J. Bateman, Esq. (his second 
 wife), had, with others, (1) Richard, s.p. ; (2) Grice = 
 1795, Mary Broderick, daughter of H. Mitchell, Esq., 
 and by her had, with Richard, his heir, (1) Henry 
 M., ancestor of Smyth of Castle Widenham ; (2) Rev. 
 G. Blakeney ; (3) Rowland ; (4) Sir John Rowland, 
 K.C.B., General, and Colonel of the 6th Dragoon 
 Guards = Hon. C. A. Abbot, daughter of Charles, first 
 Lord Tenterden, and by her had a daughter, who 
 married her cousin, the fourth Lord Tenterden ; (5) 
 Helen = H. Wallis, Esq.; (6) Penelope = The Prince 
 of Capua, and dying, left a son, F. F. B., Prince 
 of Capua; (7) Gertrude = 1840, William L., first 
 Lord Dinorben. Their daughter = 1871, Sir Arundel 
 Neave, Bart., and dying 1877, left Sir T. L. Neave, 
 Bart., and other issue. 
 
 Richard, the heir (1796-1846) = Hon. H. St L., 
 daughter of Hayes, second Lord Doneraile, and had 
 by her Charlotte M. of Ballynatray = Hon. C. W. 
 Moore, second son of Stephen, third Earl of Mount- 
 cashell, and has issue (1) Richard Charles Moore = 
 1884, Helen S., daughter of Rev. W. Makellar; (2)
 
 188 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 Harriette G. I. = Captain Holroyde, and has issue ; (3), 
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 by royal licence the name and arms of Smyth, and 
 served as High Sheriff for Waterford, 1862. 
 
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 line, with a crescent for difference. 
 
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 arg. armed and unguled or, and charged with a cres- 
 cent gu. for difference. Motto : Cum plena magis. 
 
 The actual senior line of Ballynatray is that of 
 Headborough (M.I. in the ruined cathedral of Ard- 
 more). It will be remembered that William, son of 
 Sir Percy of Ballynatray was assigned the estate of 
 Headborough. By Anne, daughter of Kichard Smyth 
 of Bridgfield, Cork, he had, with others, Percy of 
 Headborough = Elizabeth, daughter of J. Jervois, 
 Esq. By her he had William, who, dying s.p. in 
 1794, bequeathed Headborough to the son of his 
 third sister Anne, who had married Hibernicus Scott. 
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 Kingston, Esq. of Bandon, and by her had William, 
 s.p. ; Kev. Percy, who, by Catherine, daughter of J. 
 Odell, Esq., had Percy, High Sheriff for Waterford, 
 1872 = 1868, Mary, daughter of R. P. Maxwell, Esq. 
 of Finnabrogue, and by her has Percy R E. (b. 1870); 
 Cecil E. (b. 1871); Eobert R (b. 1875) ; Ethel Maud ; 
 Louisa M. K. Arms : The same as those of Gay- 
 brook. Crest : As of Ballynatray, and motto. 
 
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 Castle Widenham. Henry Mitchell, second son of 
 Grice Smyth of Ballynatray = Priscilla Widenham, 
 daughter of John Creagh, Esq., by his wife Elizabeth, 
 daughter of Charles Widenham of Castle Widenham. 
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 killed at Lucknow, 1858 ; Henry John Widenham of 
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 ton Park ; Elizabeth = John Glover, Esq. ; Penelope =
 
 IRISH PEDIGREES 
 
 189 
 
 Maximilian Grant, Esq., 2nd Life Guards; Priscilla = 
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 SMYTH OF DUKPAKK LEITKIM 
 
 John Smyth of Durpark (b. 1756) = Catherine Rourke. 
 
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 Frances May 
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 Alfred John Walter Monro 
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 Emily S. 
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 Thomas Francis Percy 
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 Eileen Mary 
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 Henry Carson Herbert 
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 Evelyn Maude 
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 The founder of this family, Mr Samuel Smith, 
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 eaton Street. In 1745, writing under the sobriquet 
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 man, he launched a subscription for the English 
 troops under Marshal Wade, then fighting against 
 Prince Charles Edward. This elicited a letter of 
 approbation from the Duke of Cumberland, whom 
 he accompanied to Scotland, being present at 
 Culloden, on which occasion the duke, in recogni- 
 tion of his gallantry, gave him his pistols. He 
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 [ Vide " Life of General Worge, Governor of Senegal," 
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 London, 1844.] 
 
 Sir J. S. Purcell, K.C.B., son of Mary Anne Smith 
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 possesses some interesting family portraits of the 
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 Charlton House, Kent. The Purcells came over 
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 buried, as also the ancestors of Lord Roberts. A 
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 borough, is said to be in existence. 
 
 Mr Worge Smith sold the moiety of 20,000 acres 
 left him by his father to Lord Selkirk for 200. It
 
 IRISH PEDIGREES 195 
 
 seems that thirty years' rental was owing to Govern- 
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 being the purchaser for 6000. To perfect his title, 
 he purchased Mr Worge Smith's interest. [From a 
 document in the possession of Sir S. Maryon Wilson, 
 Bart.] 
 
 Arms of Smith of Waterford : Erm. on a bend 
 between 2 unicorns' heads erased az., 3 lozenges or. 
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 coronet or, crowned and horned of the same, and 
 gorged with a collar az., charged with 3 lozenges and 
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 SMITH OF MONAGHAN 
 
 This family dates from the Settlement of Ulster, temp. , Jac. I. 
 
 The Venerable John Smith, = Lady Jane Brabazon, dau. of the Earl 
 
 Archdeacon of Clogher. 
 
 of Westmeath. 
 
 Rev. William, Rector of Clones in 1689. = Lady Elizabeth Pakenham, 
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 Pakenham, s.p. John, s.p. Henry = ... Digby. 
 
 Henry = Mary, dau. of ... Atkinson of Channon Rock, Others, 
 a descendant of Atkinson of Cangort 
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 David = Hannah Julia Atkinson, dau. of Captain A. of Corderry. 
 Henry, s.p. = Miss Sondes. E. A. Smith (Miss). 
 
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 A son, s.p. John Sondes= ... dau. of Major A dau. =Dillon Lawson, Esq., 
 
 Sargint. Galway. 
 
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 William's camp in safety.
 
 196 
 
 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 Mr Dillon Lawson informs me that the Monaghan 
 estate came into Archdeacon Smith's possession 
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 princes of Tyrconnel), which were confiscated and 
 sold by the Crown. An abortive attempt was made 
 about one hundred years ago by the Macmahons to 
 recover their lands. After a prolonged lawsuit, 
 judgment was given in favour of Mr David Smith. 
 
 SMYTH OF MASONBKOOK 
 
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 Captain 
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 John Martyn, 
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 John James, Robert H. Edgar 
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 Rangers 
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 Harold 
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 Marian. Mildred. 
 
 SMITH, OR SMYTH, OF LIMERICK 
 
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 Thomas, D.D., Bishop of Limerick, 1695=... 
 
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 Others. 
 
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 Eliza = Joseph Samuel Hume 
 
 I of Humewood, Wicklow. 
 
 William Charles = . . . 
 
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 effected, he duly presented his plebeian wife. His Lordship inquired the 
 number of a family. " A score and a cast, my Lord !" was the cool reply. 
 " What ! " exclaimed the Bishop, "do you count your children as fish women 
 count oysters ? " The upshot was that the Bishop did not speak to her 
 again.
 
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 CHAPTEK X 
 
 CELEBRITIES OF THE NAME 
 
 INASMUCH as very many bearing the name Smith 
 under its various spellings have achieved distinction, 
 but not all of them can be associated with any of the 
 foregoing pedigrees, it seems advisable to append a 
 brief catalogue of celebrities. Here I must own my in- 
 debtedness to the "Dictionary of National Biography," 
 which, however, I have by no means slavishly fol- 
 lowed, some of its articles, e.g. that on Charles 
 Reade, bristling with inaccuracies, and some also 
 again like that particular article being injurious 
 and unjust, and that too in reckless defiance of such 
 competent critics as Messrs Swinburne, Besant, and 
 Edwin Arnold. In the main, however, as regards 
 data, this monumental compilation is fairly trust- 
 worthy, albeit some names of eminence are omitted 
 from its pages, while very small celebrities have 
 been accorded a place. It has not, I am bound to 
 add, libelled any Smith, but one or two chronicled 
 were not worth immortality. I have arranged the 
 various Smith celebrities, according to their respective 
 callings, in groups. A few already mentioned in 
 the preceding pedigrees have a star attached to their 
 names for the convenience of the reader, and where 
 no star is appended I have been unable to trace the 
 descent of the particular individual, or, rather, I have 
 left that task to more competent hands. I need 
 scarcely add that the catalogue like that of the 
 " Dictionary of National Biography " is far from ex- 
 
 200
 
 201 
 
 haustive, but I trust it may prove helpful by way of 
 reference. 
 
 DISTINGUISHED POLITICIANS AND LAWYERS 
 
 SIR THOMAS SMITH or SMIJTH* (1513-77), states- 
 man, eldest son of John Smith of Saffron Walden. 
 His father claimed descent from Sir Roger De 
 Clarendon, an illegitimate son of the Black Prince, 
 and served as Sheriff of Essex and Herts. Educated 
 a,t Queen's, Cambridge, as King's Scholar, B.A. 1529, 
 and Fellow of Queen's. In 1533 M.A., and in 1538 
 Public Orator. D.C.L. of Padua, 1542, and in the 
 same year LL.D. of Cambridge, where he took a lead- 
 ing part in altering the prevailing pronunciation of 
 Greek, publishing at Paris, 1568, a Tractate "de 
 emendate Linguae Grsecse pronuntiatione." Regius 
 Professor of Civil Law and Vice- Chancellor of Cam- 
 bridge, 1544, Chancellor of Ely, 1545, and in 1546, 
 having been ordained priest, Rector of Leverington. 
 Prebendary of Lincoln. A strong Protestant, and 
 by Edward VI. made in consequence Provost of 
 Eton and Dean of Carlisle. In 1548 knighted. For 
 his association with Protector Somerset he was im- 
 prisoned in the Tower. On the accession of Mary, 
 Gardiner stood his friend, but he resigned his pre- 
 ferments, having been elected M.P. for Grampound. 
 In 1559 elected M.P. for Liverpool, and a member 
 of the Commission to revise the Prayer Book. 
 Ambassador to France, 1570. During his absence 
 made Chancellor of the Order of the Garter, and 
 M.P. for Essex. Died at Theydon Mount. M.L 
 He left his library to Queen's, Cambridge. Portraits 
 at Theydon Mount (by Holbein) and a copy at 
 Eton College. He married (1) (1548) Elizabeth, 
 daughter of W. Carkyke (1529-52), and (2) Philippa, 
 daughter of Sir John Wilfrid of London, and widow
 
 202 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 of Sir John Hampden. He died s.p., his heir being 
 his nephew William (d. 1626), whose son Thomas 
 was created Bart, in 1661, and was ancestor of the 
 Smijths, Barts. Sir Thomas had an illegitimate son 
 born a year after he was ordained priest, which dis- 
 counts the encomia passed on him by Protestant 
 writers. But he was a classical scholar, and learned 
 in physics, mathematics, astronomy, and astrology. 
 He was also a voluminous writer (vide Strype's "Life 
 of Sir T. Smith," 1698). 
 
 SIR THOMAS SMITH* (1556-1609), Master of Be- 
 quests, was born at Abingdon, being son of a mayor 
 of that borough. Educated at Abingdon School and 
 Christ Church, Oxford. Student, 1573; B.A., 1574; 
 M.A., 1578; Public Orator, 1582; Proctor, 1584. 
 In 1587 Clerk of the Privy Council. M.P. for Crick- 
 lade, Tamworth, and Aylesbury. In 1597 Clerk of 
 Parliament. Knighted at Greenwich, May 23, 1603. 
 In 1608 Master of Requests. Died at Peterborough 
 House, Parson's Green, S.W. Buried at Fulham. 
 M.I. He married Frances (1580-1663), daughter of 
 William Brydges, fourth Lord Chandos. His only 
 surviving child, Margaret, married Robert Carey, 
 first Earl of Monmouth. His widow re-married 
 Thomas Cecil, first Earl of Exeter. A benefactor 
 to the Bodleian. 
 
 SIR JOHN SMYTHE* (1534-1607), diplomatist, eldest 
 son of Sir Clement Smythe of Little Baddow, Essex, 
 Lord of the Manor of Rivenhall, and knighted 1547, 
 but was "chidden" by Edward VI. for hearing 
 Mass just before his death in 1552. Sir Clement 
 married Dorothy, daughter of Sir John Seymour, 
 sister of the Duke of Somerset and of Queen Jane 
 Seymour. Sir John is stated by A. A. Wood to 
 have been at Oxford but query? He was a 
 Roman Catholic, and at variance with his Royal 
 relatives. Served in the French army during the
 
 CELEBRITIES OF THE NAME 203 
 
 reign of Edward VI. In 1572 the Queen gave him 
 (or probably restored to him) the Manor of Baddow, 
 and he entered her service and was knighted. In 
 1577 Ambassador to Madrid. In 1589 he produced 
 several military works, advocating, inter alia, the 
 use of the bow, which was falling into desuetude, 
 and in 1594 a second work. In 1589 he used sediti- 
 ous words to a company of pikemen, and was 
 arrested on a charge of treason. He remained a 
 prisoner in the Tower up to 1598, when he was 
 released on parole. Buried at Little Baddow. 
 
 JOHN SMITH* (1657-1726), Judge, son of Roger 
 Smith of Frolesworth, Leicester. Educated at 
 Lincoln College, Oxon. Called to the Bar at Gray's 
 Inn, 1684. Serjeant, 1700, and Justice of the Com- 
 mon Pleas in Ireland. Transferred as Baron of the 
 Exchequer to England, 1702. Lord Chief Baron of 
 the Exchequer in Scotland, 1708. He founded a 
 hospital for widows at Frolesworth. 
 
 SIR THOMAS SMYTHE* (1558-1625), Governor of 
 the E.I.C., son of Thomas Smythe of Westenhanger, 
 Kent, by a daughter of Sir Andrew Judd. His 
 grandfather was a tradesman of Corsham, Wilts. 
 His father purchased Westenhanger of Sir Thomas 
 Sackville. Buried at Ashford. M.I. (His heir, Sir 
 John (d. 1608), was Sheriff of Kent in 1600, and 
 father of Sir Thomas Smythe, Viscount Strangford. 
 Thomas, a younger son, was admitted to the Haber- 
 dashers' Company and also to the Skinners'.) When 
 the E.I.C. was formed he became its first governor, 
 having served in the previous year, 1599, as Sheriff 
 of London. Accused of participation in Essex's 
 rebellion, but acquitted. Knighted May 13, 1603, 
 at the accession of James I. In 1604 Receiver of 
 the Duchy of Cornwall. Remained governor of 
 E.I.C. up to 1621. Supported the efforts to secure 
 the North- West passage, and Baffin stereotyped his
 
 204 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 name in "Smith's Sound." Accused of enriching 
 himself at the expense of the E.I.C., and during the 
 trial died at Sutton-at-Hone, where he was buried. 
 M.I. He assisted his grandfather, Sir A. Judd, to 
 found Tonbridge School. Married three wives. By 
 the third, Sarah, daughter of William Blount, he had 
 a daughter, who died s.p., and three sons, of whom 
 the elder, Sir John of Bidborough, had issue, which 
 terminated with Sir Sidney Stafford Smythe (1705-78). 
 
 JOHN SMITH* (1655-1723), politician, son of J. 
 Smith of South Tedworth, Hants. Educated at St 
 John's, Oxford, but did not graduate. Student of the 
 Middle Temple, 1674. M.P. for Ludgershall, 1678 
 and 1681. M.P. in the Convention Parliament for 
 Beeralston, 1691-95, and for Andover in six parlia- 
 ments, viz. from 1695 to 1713, and for East Looe 
 from 1715 to 1723. A staunch Protestant and Whig, 
 for which party he was whip in the Convention 
 Parliament. In 1705 elected Speaker, and re-elected 
 in 1707. Resigned in 1708, on becoming Chancellor 
 of the Exchequer. A great ally of Godolphin. 
 Acted as manager in the impeachment of Sacheverell, 
 and subsequently supported Sir R. Walpole. Buried 
 at South Tedworth ; M.I. His estate passed later on 
 to Thomas Assheton, who assumed the name of 
 Smith. His daughter Mary married in 1705, Hon. 
 R.. S. Herbert, second son of Thomas, eighth Earl of 
 Pembroke. 
 
 AARON SMITH * (d. 1697), Solicitor to the Treasury, 
 mentioned in a proclamation, June 1, 1677, as a 
 seditious person. As frequenter of the Rose Tavern, 
 he associated with Titus Gates, and attempted to ally 
 himself with Sir John Trenchard and the supporters of 
 the Prince of Orange. He was No. 45 of the 48 mem- 
 bers of the Green Ribbon Club in 1679 (vide Danger- 
 field, "Discovery of the Designs of the Papists," 1681). 
 On January 30, 1682, he appeared at the King's
 
 CELEBRITIES OF THE NAME 205 
 
 Bench in answer to a charge of providing one Stephen 
 Colledge with seditious papers for the purposes of his 
 defence. Tried, he was found guilty of this, and of 
 using disloyal words. He managed to escape before 
 sentence was pronounced, and was despatched by 
 Monmouth, Russell, etc., to forward their cause in 
 the North. When the Rye House Plot was dis- 
 covered Smith was arrested, and on July 4, 1683, 
 committed to the Tower. Proof being absent, he 
 was sentenced for his former offence to a fine of 
 500 and to be detained during the King's pleasure. 
 He was released in March 1688. William III., on 
 coming to the throne, made him Solicitor to the 
 Treasury and Public Prosecutor. Ninety-nine out 
 of a hundred of his charges were thrown out by the 
 Grand Juries. In November 1692 he was summoned 
 before the Lords to explain the procedure followed 
 in the arrests of Lords Marlborough and Huntingdon 
 (Hatton Correspondence, II. 186). On Sir John 
 Trenchard becoming Secretary of State for the 
 Northern Departments, Smith brought false accusa- 
 tions against innocent Lancashire gentlemen, and 
 was suspected of malversation of public funds. In 
 February 1696 he was examined by the House of 
 Commons as to his accounts, and failing to deliver 
 them was ordered into custody and deprived of 
 his offices and emoluments. Pleading illness, he was 
 granted an extension by the House to January 16, 
 1697. He failed to appear, and is believed to have 
 died in the same year. He has been confused with 
 John Smith (1655-1723), Chancellor of the Ex- 
 chequer, 1699, and first Speaker after the Union. 
 
 MATTHEW SMITH (circa 1696), nephew of Sir W. 
 Parkyns, entered Viscount Castleton's Regiment of 
 Foot, 1693, but was discharged, and, occupying rooms 
 in the Temple, wormed himself into the secrets of the 
 Jacobites. In 1695 he offered to sell this informa-
 
 206 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 tion to the Duke of Shrewsbury. He subsequently 
 became the tool of Somers and Vernon, Under- 
 secretary of State, accepted the patronage of Mon- 
 mouth, but was ready to sell either friend or foe. 
 Eventually he framed an indictment against the 
 Whigs, and offered it to the House of Commons. 
 Kingston stigmatised him as a Squire of Alsatia, and 
 he seems to have played the part of the common 
 informer in reckless defiance of all considerations 
 except his own interest. 
 
 CHARLES SMITH* (1713-77), son of Charles Smith, 
 miller of Croydon. Educated at Eadcliff School, 
 realised a fortune in the corn trade, and became 
 J.P. at Stratford. A great authority on contem- 
 porary corn values. His "Tracts on the Corn 
 Trade" won the encomium of Adam Smith. He 
 was killed by a fall from his horse, February 8, 1777. 
 By his wife, Judith, daughter of Isaac Lefevre, 
 Huguenot, he had Charles of Suttons, M.P. for 
 Westbury, 1802. 
 
 WILLIAM SMITH * (1756-1835), Political Dissenter, 
 only son of Samuel Smith, merchant, of Clapham 
 Common. His people hailed from the Isle of 
 Wight, where they had held an estate for two 
 centuries. Educated at Daventry, and supposed to 
 have been a stockbroker. M.P. for Sudbury, 1784 ; 
 for Camelford, 1791 ; for Sudbury, the second time, 
 1796 ; and in 1802 for Norwich. In 1806 he lost his 
 seat, and in 1807 was re-elected for Norwich, as also 
 in 1812, 1818, 1820, and 1826. In 1830 he retired 
 from public life. He spoke in favour of the repeal 
 of the Test and Corporation Acts, and favoured 
 Catholic claims. In a debate on religious disabilities 
 he said : " As long as my name's William, I will 
 stand up for my principles." The following lines 
 show his political attitude :
 
 CELEBRITIES OF THE NAME 207 
 
 " At length when the candles burn low in their sockets, 
 Up gets William Smith with his hands in his pockets, 
 On a course of morality fearlessly enters, 
 With all the opinions of all the Dissenters." 
 
 He supported William Wilberforce with warmth. 
 Although a Nonconformist, he was a judicious 
 patron of art, and among his friends were Sir Joshua 
 Reynolds, Fox, Sir J. Mackintosh, and Sir Philip 
 Francis. He married, 1781, Frances Coape, and by 
 her had five sons and five daughters, all distinguished 
 by longevity. His eldest son (1783-1860) represented 
 Norwich from 1838 to 1847. Like his sire, he was 
 a strong Liberal. 
 
 SIR WILLIAM CUSAC SMITH,* Bart. (1766-1836), 
 Irish judge and pamphleteer, eldest son of Sir Michael 
 Smith, Baron of the Irish Court of Exchequer, who be- 
 came (1801-6) Master of the Rolls in Ireland, and was 
 created Bart, in 1779. His mother's name was Cusac 
 of Coolmine. Educated at Eton and Christ Church, 
 Oxford, graduating in 1788. A personal friend of 
 Edmund Burke. Called to the Bar in 1788, he 
 became King's Counsel, 1795. M.P. for Donegal, 
 1795, where he favoured the Union. In 1800 ap- 
 pointed Solicitor-General of Ireland, and in 1801 
 Baron of the Irish Exchequer. In 1834 attacked by 
 O'Connell for partiality, but vindicated by the con- 
 gratulatory addresses of nearly every grand jury in 
 Ireland. He married Hester, daughter of Thomas 
 Berry, Esq., of Eglish. Wrote verse under a 
 pseudonym. His son, Thomas Barry Cusac Smith 
 (1795-1866), educated at Dublin, unsuccessfully con- 
 tested Youghal against O'Connell's son, but was 
 returned in 1843 for Ripon, and became Master of 
 the Rolls. O'Connell christened him "Alphabet" 
 and "The Vinegar Cruet." He married in 1827, 
 Louisa, daughter of Thomas Smith Barry, Esq., of 
 Fota.
 
 208 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 ROBERT PERCY SMITH * (Bobus) (1770-1845), brother 
 of Sydney Smith. At Eton with Hookham Frere, 
 Canning, and the third Lord Holland. In 1788 
 Battie's Scholar, and in 1791 Browne's Medallist, B.A. 
 King's, Cambridge, 1794; M.A., 1797, in which year 
 he was called to the Bar of Lincoln's Inn. In 1803 
 Advocate- General of Bengal. In 1812 M.P. for 
 Grantham. Defeated at Lincoln in 1818, but elected 
 in 1820, representing the borough up to 1826. A 
 distinguished Latin versifier, and a reputed wit. He 
 married in 1797, Caroline, daughter of Richard 
 Vernon, M.P. for Tavistock, and by her had Robert, 
 Lord Lyveden. 
 
 THOMAS ASSHETON SMITH* (1776-1858), son of 
 T. A. Smith, and descended from John Smith of 
 South Tedworth, the Whig Whip in the Convention 
 Parliament. Educated at Eton and Gen. Com. 
 Christ Church. M.P. for Andover, 1821-31, and 
 for Carnarvonshire, 1832-41. A leading member of 
 Lords, and famous cricketer. From 1806 to 1816 
 Master of the Quorn, and from 1816 to 1824 of the 
 Burton. In 1832, in consequence of the Reform 
 riots, he raised, at his own expense, a troop of horse. 
 For many years a member of the R.Y.S., but quar- 
 relled with the Committee over steam yachts. 
 Married, October 29, 1827, Matilda, daughter of 
 William Webber of Binfield, s.p. Died at Vaynol, 
 Carnarvon, and buried at Tedworth. His widow 
 died at Compton Bassett, 1859. 
 
 JOHN PRINCE SMITH f (1774-1822), Law Reporter 
 and Editor of the Law Journal. Died at Demerara. 
 
 JOHN PRINCE SMITH, junior (1809-74), Political 
 Economist, and son of above. Educated at Eton. 
 A member of the Free Trade Union of Berlin, 1840, 
 and in 1870 member of the Reichstag. 
 
 t Query whether these Prince Smiths were of the Chichester family ? vide 
 supra.
 
 CELEBRITIES OF THE NAME 209 
 
 ROBERT VERNON SMITH* (later Vernon), Lord 
 Lyveden (1800-73), a nephew of Sydney Smith, and 
 the only son of Percy (Bobus) Smith. Educated at 
 Eton and Christ Church, Oxford. B.A. (second in 
 classics), 1822. Student of the Inner Temple, but was 
 not called to the Bar. M.P. for Tralee, 1829-30, in 
 which year he was Junior Lord of the Treasury 
 under Earl Grey. In Lord Melbourne's second ad- 
 ministration, i.e. from 1835 to 1839, he was joint 
 secretary of the Board of Control, and Secretary 
 for the Colonies from 1839 to 1841. Secretary at 
 War under Lord John Russell, 1852. From Febru- 
 ary 1855 to March 1858 President of the Board 
 of Control, with a seat in the Cabinet. M.P. for 
 Northampton, 1831, which borough he represented 
 until 1859, when he was summoned to the Lords 
 as Baron Lyveden. Abandoned his patronymic 
 Smith for Vernon. Metropolitan Commissioner in 
 Lunacy. G.C.B., 1872. Edited Horace Walpole's 
 "Letters," and the early writings of his father. 
 He married in 1823 the Hon. Emma Mary, daughter 
 of John, second Earl of Ossory. 
 
 JOHN ABEL SMITH * (1801-71), banker, son of J. 
 Smith of Blendon Hall, Kent, a member of the firm 
 of which the first Lord Carrington was head. 
 Educated at Christ's, Cambridge. B.A., 1824; 
 M.A., 1827. Chief partner in Smith, Payne & Co. 
 M.P. for Midhurst, 1830; M.P. for Chichester, 
 1831-59; again elected 1863-68. A Liberal. Sup- 
 ported Lord Grey's Reform Bill, and the Bill for the 
 admission of Jews to Parliament. In 1869 he intro- 
 duced a Bill to limit the hours of closing. Although 
 a prominent member of the Whig party, he said, 
 a propos of the ballot, that if it were introduced into 
 the House, and members were permitted to vote 
 secretly, none but the most Tory measures would 
 have a chance of passing. In 1827 he married Anne, 
 o
 
 210 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 daughter of Sir S. Clarke- Jervoise, Bart., and widow 
 of R. W. Grey of Back worth. By her he had (1) 
 Jervoise (b. 1828), (2) Dudley R. (b. 1830). He 
 died at Kippington, Kent. J.P. for Middlesex and 
 Sussex. 
 
 AUGUSTUS JOHN SMITH* (1804-72), Lessee of Scilly, 
 son of Jas. Smith, Esq., of Ashlyns Hall, Herts, (vide 
 Lord Carrington), by Mary Isabella, daughter of 
 Augustus Pechell, Esq. Born in Harley Street ; 
 educated at Harrow and Christ Church ; B.A. 1826. 
 A strong Liberal, he engaged navvies to destroy the 
 fences Lord Brownlow had erected around the com- 
 mon at Ashridge ; see Punch " A Lay of Modern 
 England," March 24, 1866. A great benefactor to 
 the Scilly Isles. He contested Truro unsuccessfully 
 in 1852, but was returned unopposed in 1857. Presi- 
 dent of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall ; 
 author of "A True and Faithful History of the 
 Family of Smith from Notts," 1861. He was suc- 
 ceeded at Tresco by his nephew, T. A. Smith-Dorrien. 
 
 JOHN WILLIAM SMITH (1809-45), eldest son of John 
 Smith, Paymaster to the Forces in Ireland. In 1821 
 Queen's Scholar of Westminster; B.A., Dublin; 
 gold medal, 1829 ; called to the Bar of the Inner 
 Temple, 1834. From 1837 to 1843 Lecturer at the 
 Law Institution, and in 1840 Revising Barrister. 
 Buried at Kensal Green. M.I., Temple Church. A 
 voluminous author on legal subjects. 
 
 SIR MONTAGU EDWARD SMITH (1809-91), judge, son 
 of Thomas Smith of Bideford, solicitor. Educated at 
 Bideford School. Entered at Gray's Inn, 1830. Called 
 to the Bar, 1835 ; Q.C. 1853, and Bencher of the 
 Middle Temple. Conservative M.P. for Truro, 1859 ; 
 Treasurer of the Middle Temple, 1863 ; appointed 
 judge by Lord Westbury 1865, and knighted. 
 Judicial member of the Privy Council, 1871 ; resigned 
 1881, and died unmarried ten years later.
 
 CELEBRITIES OF THE NAME 211 
 
 JOSHUA TOULMIN SMITH* (1816-69), son of W. 
 Hawkes Smith of Birmingham, student of Lincoln's 
 Inn, 1835. In 1837 married Martha, daughter of W. 
 J. Kendall, and emigrated to the U.S.A., settling at 
 Boston. In 1842 he returned home, and attained 
 celebrity as a writer on geology. A vehement op- 
 ponent of centralisation, and in 1848-9 espoused the 
 cause of Kossuth and Hungary. In 1854 he formed 
 the An ti- Centralisation Union, and in 1857 established 
 " The Parliamentary Remembrancer." Drowned at 
 Lancing, and buried in Hornsey churchyard. A pro- 
 lific writer, and a man of versatile intelligence. His 
 most valuable work is that on English guilds. 
 
 JOSIAH W. SMITH (1816-87), legal writer, son of 
 John Smith, Rector of Baldock. LL.B. Trinity 
 College, Cambridge, 1841, in which year he was 
 called to the Bar of Lincoln's Inn ; Q.C. 1861, and 
 Bencher of Lincoln's Inn. County Court judge at 
 Hereford. He married in 1844, Mary, daughter of Dr 
 Hicks of Baldock. 
 
 ROBERT SMITH,* 1st Lord Carrington (1752-1838), 
 eldest surviving son of Abel Smith, by Mary, daughter 
 of Thomas Bird of Barton, Warwickshire. Baptised at 
 St Peter's, Nottingham. His father, of the firm of 
 Smith, Payne & Co.,. represented Aldborough 1774; 
 St Ives 1780, and St Germans 1785. Elected M.P. 
 for Nottingham 1779, and returned during the follow- 
 ing five parliaments. Summoned to the Upper House 
 1797 ; a warm friend of Pitt, and a patron of the poet 
 Cowper. He owned the pocket boroughs of Mid- 
 hurst and Wendover, and this secured for him, first 
 in 1796, an Irish peerage, and in the next year a 
 peerage of the United Kingdom. It was whispered 
 that his financial aid to Pitt won him these honours, 
 but he boldly refuted this slander in 1836 by a 
 letter to the Quarterly. D.C.L., Oxford, 1810 ; LL.D., 
 Cambridge, 1819 ; Vice-President of the Royal
 
 212 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 Literary Fund, F.R.S., F.S.A. A strong Tory 
 throughout, and a man of reserve, but great natural 
 nobility of character. Buried at High Wycombe. 
 He married, first, 1780, Anne, daughter of L. B. 
 Barnard of Cave Castle, by whom he had a son, 
 Robert John, born 1796, who took the name of 
 Carrington, in lieu of Smith, by Royal Licence, 1839, 
 and was succeeded by Charles Robert, who changed 
 the family name to Carington. 
 
 ERASMUS SMITH * (1611-1691), son of Sir Roger 
 Smith, alias Heriz of Husbands Bos worth. " Silver 
 tongue " Smith was his uncle. A Turkey mer- 
 chant and member of the Grocer's Company. On 
 the score of a debt owed by the Court to his father, 
 he applied to Charles II. for the office of Carver to 
 the Queen. He was granted 600 acres of land in 
 Tipperary in 1652 the Cromwellian Settlement, 
 and by purchase and otherwise, in 1684 owned 46,000 
 acres in nine Irish shires. In 1656 he had been a con- 
 tractor for the troops in Ireland. Alderman of Billings- 
 gate, 1657 ; a benefactor to Trinity College, Dublin, 
 and Christ's Hospital, London. Resided at Clerkenwell 
 and Weald Hall, Essex. He married Mary, daughter 
 of the 1st Lord Coleraine, and by her had six sons 
 and three daughters. His fourth son, Hugh of Weald, 
 married Dorothy Barrett Lennard of Belhouse, and 
 by her had two daughters, of whom, Lucy, married 
 James Stanley, Lord Strange, who took the name of 
 Smith Stanley, not now retained by the Earls of 
 Derby. Buried at Hamerton, Hants. His portrait 
 is in Christ's Hospital. 
 
 THE RIGHT HON. WILLIAM H. SMITH * (1825-91), son 
 of W. H. Smith, newsvendor, and grandson of Henry 
 Walton Smith, who held a commission in the Navy, was 
 educated at Harrow, and married Anna Easthaugh 
 at Christ's Church, Middlesex. (?) His third son, W. 
 H., with another son, H. E., commenced a news-
 
 CELEBRITIES OF THE NAME 213 
 
 agency in Duke Street, and in 1820 moved to the 
 Strand. In 1817, W. H. Smith = Mary Cooper at 
 St George's, Hanover Square. Their son, W. H., 
 the future statesman, was educated at Tavistock 
 School, under Rev. W. Beal of Trinity College, Cam- 
 bridge, who had married his sister, and, later, became 
 pupil of Rev. W. Povah of Wadham College, Oxford. 
 W. H. wished to go to Oxford, but his parents- 
 Methodists objected, hence his distaste for dissent ; 
 as late as 1846 he had not abandoned the idea of 
 Anglican orders, perhaps owing to his friendship for 
 Regius Professor Ince of Oxford. In the end he 
 became head of the firm, and in 1858 married Mrs 
 Leach, nee Danvers. In 1857 invited to contest Boston 
 and Exeter as a Radical. Blackballed for the Reform 
 Club, he joined the Conservative party, and stood for 
 Westminster in 1865 unsuccessfully, but was returned 
 in 1868, and represented that borough until 1885, 
 when he was returned for the Strand. Financial 
 Secretary of the Treasury, 1874 ; First Lord of the 
 Admiralty, 1877; D.C.L., Oxford, 1878; Secretary 
 for War, 1885, and in the same year Secretary for 
 Ireland ; in 1887 First Lord of the Treasury and 
 Leader of the Commons. Styled " Old Morality." 
 His widow was created Viscountess Hambledon, and 
 her son succeeded him as M.P. for the Strand. 
 
 SIR FRANCIS SMITH, Chief-Justice of Tasmania, b. 
 1819, son of Francis Smith of Lindfield, Sussex, a 
 London merchant, married 1851, Sarah, heiress of 
 Rev. Dr Giles, and settled in Hobart Town. 
 
 SIR JOHN LUCIE SMITH, C.M.G., Chief- Justice of 
 Jamaica, b. 1825, son of John Lucie Smith, LL.D., 
 of Demerara and Blackheath ; solicitor, and after- 
 wards Attorney- General of British Guiana. Married 
 (1851) Marie, daughter of J. R. Van Water Schoot. 
 
 SIR ALBERT J. SMITH of Ottawa, Canada, son of T. 
 E. Smith, Esq., of Westmoreland, North Brunswick,
 
 214 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 b. 1824 = 1868 Sarah M., daughter of J. W. Young, 
 Esq., of Halifax, N.S. She died in 1883. A mem- 
 ber of the Executive Council of New Brunswick ; 
 Attorney-General 1862-65 ; Minister of Marine and 
 Fisheries for Canada, 1873. 
 
 SIR ARCHIBALD LEVIN SMITH, son of Francis Smith, 
 Esq. of Salt Hill, by Mary, heiress of Z. Levin, Esq. 
 (b. 1836), married Isabel, daughter of C. J. Fletcher, 
 Esq. of Dale Park, Sussex. Educated at Trinity 
 College, Cambridge, and a famous oarsman. Judge 
 of the High Court of Justice, 1883-92 ; Master of 
 the Rolls, 1900. Died 1901. Heir Archibald F. F, 
 Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. 
 
 SIR CECIL CLEMENTI SMITH, K.C.M.G-., son of Rev. 
 J. Smith, Rector of Buckhurst Hill, Essex, by Cecilia, 
 daughter of Muzio Clementi, the illustrious composer, 
 (b. 1840), M.A., Christ's College, Cambridge, married 
 (1869) Teresa, daughter of A. Newcomen of Kirk- 
 leatham. High Commissioner for Borneo, 1890. 
 
 SIR CHARLES BEAN EUAN SMITH, K.C.B. (b. 1842) 
 = (1874) Edith, daughter of Colonel Alexander. 
 Colonel retired, and Consul- General at Zanzibar. 
 
 SIR DONALD ALEXANDER SMITH, K.C.M.G. (b. 1821), 
 Resident Governor and Chief Commissioner at Mon- 
 treal of the Hudson's Bay Company. 
 
 SIR EDWIN THOMAS SMITH, K.C.M.G., son of 
 Edward Smith, Esq. of Walsall (b. 1831), married 
 (1869) Elizabeth, daughter of E. Spicer, Esq. Some- 
 time Mayor of Adelaide, and Member of the House 
 of Assembly of South Australia. 
 
 SIR FRANCIS VILLENEUVE SMITH, son of Francis 
 Smith, merchant of London (b. 1819) = (1851) Sarah, 
 daughter of Rev. Dr Giles. A Bencher of the Middle 
 Temple, Chief- Justice of Tasmania, 1860-85. 
 
 SIR WILLIAM F. HAYNES SMITH, son of Lucie Smith 
 of Demerara (b. 1838), Governor of the Leeward 
 Islands.
 
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 ART WORKERS AND ENGRAVERS 
 
 JOHN SMITH (1652-1742), born at Daventry. A 
 mezzotint engraver, who reproduced Kneller's por- 
 traits, as well as those of Lely and others. Portrait 
 in the National Portrait Gallery. Buried at St Peter's, 
 Northampton. 
 
 CHARLES SMITH (1749-1824), a friend of Sir Joshua 
 Reynolds, portrait painter, socialist, and unsuccessful 
 musical composer. A native of Orkney, he died at 
 Leith, after having resided in India. 
 
 JOHN SMITH (1749-1831), water - colour painter, 
 nicknamed " Warwick" Smith. President of the 
 Water- Colour Society, 1814. Examples of his work 
 are in the South Kensington Museum. 
 
 ANKER SMITH (1759-1819), engraver, son of a Cheap- 
 side silk merchant, so called because his parents 
 regarded him as their spes unica. Educated at 
 Merchant Taylors, articled to a solicitor, but trans- 
 ferred to James Taylor, engraver. Illustrated Bell's 
 "British Poets." His engraving of Northcote's 
 "Death of Wat Tyler" earned for him his election 
 as A.R.A. in 1797. His plate of Leonardo Da Vinci's 
 " Holy Family " remains in the Royal Academy. 
 Illustrated Macklin's Bible, Boy dell's " Shakespeare," 
 Kearsley's "Shakespeare," Hume's "History of Eng- 
 land," and Sharpe's "British Classics." He engraved 
 Smirke's designs for "Gil Bias," "Arabian Nights," 
 and "Don Quixote." Died of apoplexy, June 23, 
 1819. His sister, a portrait painter, married Ross, 
 the miniature painter. His son Frederick W. was a 
 pupil of Chan trey (d. 1835), and a gold medallist, 
 Royal Academy ; and his younger son, Herbert 
 Luther, was a painter of repute. 
 
 JOHN THOMAS SMITH (1766-1833), son of N. Smith, 
 sculptor and printseller. In 1784 he executed a 
 series of topographical engravings for Crowle and
 
 216 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 Wyat, and in 1791 published "Antiquities of 
 London and its Environs." In 1816 appointed 
 Keeper of the Prints in the British Museum. In 
 1817 he produced " Vagabondiana," and in 1828 
 "Nollekens and his Times." 
 
 JOHN RAPHAEL SMITH (1752-1812), son of Thomas 
 Smith of Derby, landscape painter, engraver, minia- 
 ture painter, and publisher of engravings. Buried at 
 Doncaster. 
 
 THOMAS SMITH (d. 1767), landscape painter, of 
 Derby. A collection of plates from his painted 
 views of Derbyshire and Yorkshire was issued in 
 1760. In 1769 Boydell published a set of four 
 views of Rome by Smith, and six plates of race- 
 horses. Other and similar works of his remain. 
 Died at Hot Wells, Clifton, leaving two sons, Thomas 
 Corregio and John Raphael Smith. 
 
 CHARLES HARRIOT SMITH (1792-1864), member of 
 the R.I.B.A., was son of Joseph Smith, sculptor, of 
 Portland Road. An authority on stone, he executed 
 the ornamental carving of the Royal Exchange. His 
 son, Percy Gordon Smith, was architect to the Local 
 Government Board. 
 
 CHARLES JOHN SMITH (1803-38), son of a Chelsea 
 doctor. An engraver of merit, he published, in 1829, 
 " Autographs of Royal and Illustrious Persons." 
 Elected F.S.A. 1837. 
 
 GEORGE SMITH* of Chichester (1713-76), landscape 
 painter, grandson of a Baptist minister, who suffered, 
 temp. Car. II., under the harsh provisions of the Act 
 of Uniformity, and son of William Smith, brewer and 
 Baptist minister. Became a pupil of his elder brother, 
 William, portrait painter, with whom he migrated to 
 Gloucester. Later, returning to Chichester, he found 
 a judicious patron in the Duke of Richmond. In 
 1760 he gained the first prize of the Society of Arts 
 for landscape, as also in 1761 and 1763. He instructed
 
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 his younger brother John, who took the first prize, 
 George not competing, in 1762 ; but the latter died 
 shortly after, in his prime, having given very large 
 promise of attaining a high rank in art. A Life of 
 George Smith was published in 1811, mentioning 
 both his fine collection of engravings, by Claude, and 
 also his proficiency as a 'cellist, Corelli being his 
 favourite master. He and his wife lie in St Pancras, 
 Chichester. M.I. 
 
 JOHN SMITH (1714-61), brother of George and 
 William Smith, portrait and landscape painter, vide 
 supra. Buried at St Pancras, Chichester. M.I. 
 
 WILLIAM SMITH * of Chichester and Shopwyke, por- 
 trait painter (1707-64), was sent by the second Duke 
 of Richmond to become the pupil of an artist in 
 St Martin's Lane. Like his brother George, vide 
 supra, he was son and grandson of Baptist ministers. 
 Invited by Sir William Guise to paint an altar-piece 
 for his private chapel in Gloucestershire, he removed 
 to Gloucester, where he achieved a considerable re- 
 putation. Returning to London, he added still-life to 
 his repertoire. Ill health compelled him to return to 
 his native air. He died at Shopwyke, and was buried 
 at St Pancras, Chichester. Mr Algernon Graves, in 
 his Dictionary of Artists, mentions that of the three 
 brothers, William exhibited forty pictures of fruit at 
 the Free Society, and six at the Society of Artists ; 
 George exhibited landscapes only four at the Royal 
 Academy, one hundred and three at the Free Society, 
 and two at the Society of Artists ; while John sent to 
 the Free Society fourteen pictures of different sorts, 
 and two to the Exhibition of the Society of 
 Artists. 
 
 Some fine examples of the work of all three brothers 
 are among the collection of the Duke of Richmond at 
 Goodwood. Of their pictures many were engraved 
 by Woollett.
 
 218 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 COLVIN SMITH (1795-1875), portrait painter and 
 RS.A., son of John Smith of Brechin, descended 
 from the Lindsays als Smiths, heritable armourers 
 to the Bishops of Brechin, by Cecilia, sister of Lord 
 Gillies. A pupil of Nollekens. Best known for his 
 portraits of Sir Walter Scott, Lord Jeffrey, Henry 
 Mackenzie, Sir James Mackintosh, Lord Melville, 
 Lord Neaves, and Lord Hope. He resided con- 
 tinuously in Edinburgh. 
 
 JOHN ORRIN SMITH (1799-1843), wood engraver, 
 born at Colchester. 
 
 STEPHEN CATTERSON SMITH (1806-72), portrait 
 painter, son of Joseph Smith, coach painter, of 
 Skipton. After a successful career in England he 
 migrated to Dublin, and had the honour of painting 
 all the viceroys for thirty years. Elected President 
 of the E/oyal Hibernian Academy, 1859. He married 
 in 1845, Anne, daughter of E. T. Wyke of Wexford, 
 the lady being a miniature painter, and by her left 
 six sons and four daughters, of whom two sons are 
 artists. 
 
 WILLIAM SMITH (1808-76), printseller. Educated 
 at Cambridge, but did not graduate, joining a brother 
 in the printselling business. In 1836 he purchased 
 the Sheepshanks' collection, whereof he sold the 
 Dutch and Flemish portions to the British Museum. 
 Deputy-chairman of the National Portrait Gallery, 
 and a manager of the Art Union. F.S.A., 1852. 
 Buried at Kensal Green, leaving his collections to 
 the South Kensington Museum. 
 
 BENJAMIN SMITH, engraver (d. 1833). A pupil of 
 Bartolozzi. He was employed by the Boydells, and 
 for them executed plates after Romney, Banks, and 
 Browne, for the Shakespeare series ; Sigismunda, 
 after Hogarth ; portrait of Hogarth ; portrait of Lord 
 Cornwallis ; portrait of George III., etc., etc. 
 
 JOHN CHALLONER SMITH, C.E., and writer on mezzo-
 
 CELEBRITIES OF THE NAME 219 
 
 tints. Born at Dublin. Educated at Trinity Col- 
 lege, Dublin. B.A., 1849. Engineer to various Irish 
 railways. His reputation rests mainly on his chef- 
 d'oeuvre, "British Mezzotint Portraits." 
 
 SOLDIERS AND SAILORS 
 
 JOHN SMITH (1580-1631), colonist, son of George 
 Smith of Willoughby, Lincolnshire. Served in the 
 French army 1596, and in 1600 returned home, but 
 soon sought foreign service under the Archduke of 
 Styria, passing through subsequently a series of 
 thrilling adventures. He then led a party of 105 
 emigrants to found an El Dorado in Virginia. Taken 
 prisoner, he was rescued by the Indian Princess 
 Pocahontas an incident disputed. His later ad- 
 ventures, which involved the creation of the colony 
 of New England, were not crowned with success, 
 and he returned to London to publish maps and 
 pamphlets. Buried in St Sepulchre's. He was 
 much addicted to romancing about his exploits, but 
 rendered considerable service as a pioneer. 
 
 THOMAS SMITH (1600-27), soldier, of Berwick-on- 
 Tweed. Author of the "Art of Gunnery" and other 
 military works preserved in the British Museum. 
 
 SIR JOHN SMYTH * (1616-44), Royalist, born at Stud- 
 ley, Warwickshire, being the fourth son of Sir Francis 
 Smith of Queeniborough, Leicestershire, by Anne, 
 daughter of Thos. Markham of Allerton, Notts. His 
 eldest brother was raised to the Peerage in 1643 as 
 Baron Carington of Wootton Wawen, and Viscount 
 Carington of Barreford, in Connaught. He was 
 educated as a Roman Catholic. He joined the 
 Spanish army and served in Flanders, but offered his 
 sword to Charles L, receiving a commission, and 
 defeating the Scotch at Stapleford. When the Civil
 
 220 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 War broke out, he was appointed captain under 
 Lord John Stewart, and took part in the fight at 
 Powick. At Edgehill he recovered the Royal Standard, 
 which had been captured by the Roundheads when 
 Sir Edmund Verney was slain, and for this was 
 made Knight-banneret on the field. Taken prisoner 
 by Waller, after his release he became Colonel of 
 Lord Herbert's Horse at Oxford, and was killed in 
 the skirmish with Waller at Cheriton. Buried in 
 Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. 
 
 SIR JEREMIAH SMYTH * (d. 1675), admiral, grandson 
 of John Smyth of Much Warlingfield, Suffolk, and 
 third son of Jeremiah Smith or Smyth of Canterbury. 
 Merchant at Hull, where, in 1656, his wife Frances 
 died, set. 40. Captain of the Advice, 1653 ; after- 
 wards of the Essex. A strong Cromwellian. In 
 1664 appointed captain of the Mary, and in 1665 
 of the Sovereign. Took part in the Dutch War. 
 Knighted June 1665. In the battle of July 25th 
 he retreated before Van Tromp, and, being court- 
 martialled, was acquitted, Albemarle being for him 
 and Prince Rupert against. In 1667 commanded 
 in the North Sea as Admiral of the Blue, and 1668 
 was Vice- Admiral of the Fleet under Sir T. Allin. 
 Died at Clapham, but was buried at Hemingborough, 
 near Selby, where he had a seat. His second wife 
 was Anne, daughter of T. Pockley, by whom he had 
 three sons. 
 
 THOMAS SMITH (d. 1708), renegade and adventurer, 
 who, after holding various commands in the Royal 
 Navy, and having been court-martialled and dis- 
 missed, entered the service of the French and took 
 part in the capture of the Nightingale off Harwich. 
 In command of the captured Nightingale, he attempted 
 to capture Harwich, but was himself, with his vessel, 
 taken prisoner, and was hung, drawn, and quartered 
 for bearing arms against his country.
 
 CELEBRITIES OF THE NAME 221 
 
 SIR JOHN SMITH (1754-1837), General and Colonel 
 Commandant of RA. Born at Brighton. Educated 
 at Woolwich. Lieutenant RA., 1771. In 1775 was 
 captured at Fort St John. Exchanged 1777, and 
 served under Sir W. Howe at New York. Present 
 at Brandywine. Served under Clinton and Corn- 
 wallis, but again made prisoner at Yorktown in 1781. 
 In 1795 served under Sir R Abercromby in the 
 West Indies, and in 1799 accompanied the Duke of 
 York to Holland. Governor of Gibraltar (1804-14). 
 K.G.C., 1831. Died at Charlton, 1837. 
 
 ADMIRAL THOMAS SMITH (d. 1762), said to have 
 been the illegitimate son of Sir Thomas Lyttelton, 
 Bart., appointed, 1727, Lieutenant of the Royal Oak. 
 In 1728 transferred to the Gosport, in command of 
 which he had a memorable difference with the Com- 
 mander of the French corvette Gironde. Having 
 compelled him to salute, Smith exceeded his instruc- 
 tions and was dismissed the navy in 1729. But in 
 the year following he was reinstated, and made 
 captain of the Success. His pluck in compelling the 
 Frenchman to haul down his colours won him the 
 sobriquet of "Tom of Ten Thousand." He rose 
 rapidly, and in September 1745 was appointed 
 Admiral in command of The Nore, and afterwards at 
 Leith, to prevent communication between the young 
 Pretender and France. In 1757 he was made 
 Admiral of the Blue. In 1756 he presided over the 
 trial of Admiral Byng and pronounced sentence, with 
 a recommendation to mercy. In 1758 he retired. 
 His portrait, by Wilson, RA., is in the Hall at 
 Greenwich. 
 
 SIR CHARLES FELIX SMITH* (1786-1858), Lieutenant- 
 General, second son of George Smith of Burn Hall, 
 Durham, by Juliet, daughter of Richard Mott, 
 Esq., of Carlton, Suffolk. A distinguished military 
 engineer. Served in the West Indies, 1807-10 ; in the
 
 222 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 Peninsular War, at Cadiz, and Gibraltar. Took part 
 in the Battle of Yittoria, and at Tolosa had his horse 
 shot under him. Made Lieutenant-Colonel for "con- 
 duct before the enemy at San Sebastian." Knighted 
 by the Prince Regent, November 10, 1814. On 
 June 19, 1815, he joined the army under Wellington 
 in Belgium, and remained with the army of occupa- 
 tion in France, where he killed three Frenchmen in 
 duels. Afterwards Acting-Governor of Trinidad 
 and Governor (1838) of Gibraltar. In 1840 he took 
 part in the capture of St Jean D'Acre, when he was 
 severely wounded, returning to his command at 
 Gibraltar in 1841. For his services in Syria he 
 received the thanks of both Houses of Parliament. 
 He married (1) a daughter (died June 18, 1849) of 
 Thomas Bell, Esq., and (2) in 1852 the eldest 
 daughter of Thomas Croft, Esq. He died at Worth- 
 ing, August 11, 1858. 
 
 SIR W. SIDNEY SMITH* (1764-1840), Admiral, was 
 second son of Captain J. Smith of the Guards, and 
 grandson of Captain Edward Smith, R.N., wounded 
 at La Guayra. Called " Sidney" because of an alleged 
 connection with the Strangford Smythes, who had 
 intermarried with the Sidneys. Educated at Ton- 
 bridge School and at Bath, he joined the Navy in 
 1777. Served under Lord Kodney, and was present 
 at St Vincent. Served also under Hood. Travelled 
 in France and Morocco. Served under the Swedish 
 flag in 1790. Made by Gustavus Knight Grand Cross 
 of the Order of the Sword, and was invested with the 
 insignia by George III. He then went on a visit to 
 his brother, Charles Spencer Smith, Ambassador at 
 Constantinople. When war broke out in 1793, he 
 purchased and manned a vessel, joining Lord Hood 
 at Toulon, and next commanded The Diamond frigate 
 in the North Sea, and was successful in harassing the 
 French. In 1796 captured off Havre, and detained
 
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 prisoner for two years. He escaped, and, landing at 
 Portsmouth, was mistaken for a Frenchman. Sent 
 out, as joint plenipotentiary with his brother at Con- 
 stantinople, to Lord St Vincent, who, although he 
 was in command of the Tigre, did not put him under 
 Nelson's command. Difficulties arose, but eventually 
 Smith accepted Nelson's orders, and undertook the 
 defence of St Jean D Acre. This exploit, which made 
 his reputation, has been eulogised by Mahan as a 
 heroic inspiration. For it he received the thanks 
 of Parliament and a pension. Elected M.P. for 
 Rochester, 1802 ; Rear- Admiral, 1805 ; Vice- Admiral, 
 1810 ; G.C.B., 1838. Buried at Pere Lachaise ; M.I. 
 He married (1810) Caroline, widow of Sir G. B. 
 Rumbold, s.p. Portrait by Eckstein in National 
 Portrait Gallery (vide Barlow's Life). 
 
 CHARLES HAMILTON SMITH, als SMET (1776-1859), 
 born at Vrommen-hofen. Educated at Richmond, 
 Malines, and Louvain. Served as Deputy Quarter- 
 master-General in the Walcheren Expedition. F.R.S., 
 1824 ; F.L.S., 1826 (vide " Seven Homes," Mrs Rundle 
 Charles). He retired in 1830, and after that became 
 a dilettante in science and archseology, supplying 
 Barry with designs for details of the Houses of 
 Parliament. He married (1808) Mary Anne, daugh- 
 ter of Joseph Mauger, Esq. of Guernsey. 
 
 SIR LIONEL SMITH (1778-1842), Lieutenant- General, 
 was a son of Benjamin Smith, merchant, of Liss, by 
 his wife Charlotte, the poetess. Entered the army as 
 ensign, 1795. Served in the West Indies, Canada, the 
 Persian Gulf, and at the taking of Mauritius. Major- 
 General 1819 ; K.C.B. and Colonel of the 34th, 1834. 
 As Governor of the Leeward Islands made himself 
 unpopular, and was replaced by Sir Charles Metcalfe 
 in 1839. At the coronation of the Queen he was 
 created Baronet, and in 1840 became Governor of 
 Mauritius. In 1841 G.C.B. He married (1) Ellen
 
 224 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 M., daughter of Thomas Gal way, and by her had two 
 daughters. In 1819 he remarried Isabella Curwen, 
 daughter of E. C. Pottinger, by whom he had four 
 children a son, Lionel E., and three daughters. 
 
 SIR JOHN MARK FREDERIC SMITH (1790-1874), 
 General, son of Major-General Sir J. F. S. Smith, 
 K.C.H. Born at Paddington Manor; educated at 
 Woolwich. In 1807 served as lieutenant, Koyal 
 Engineers, in Sicily. Inspector- General of Railways. 
 Director of the R.E. establishment at Chatham, 1842. 
 M.P. for Chatham, 1852, but unseated on petition. 
 Major - General 1854 ; Lieutenant - General 1859 ; 
 Colonel - Commandant of RE. 1860; and General 
 1863. Died in Pembridge Villas, and buried at 
 Kensal Green. F.R.S. He married, in 1813, 
 Harriet, daughter of Thomas Thorn, Esq. of Buck- 
 land, near Dover, s.p. 
 
 JOHN THOMAS SMITH (1805-82), Colonel, Royal Engi- 
 neers, son of G. Smith of Edwalton, Notts. Educated 
 at Repton and Addiscombe. In 1826 superintending 
 engineer of public works in the N.W.P. In 1837 
 F.R.S. In 1840, after having rendered conspicuous 
 services professionally in Madras, appointed Mint 
 Master, and was inventor of a machine for coining 
 which gained an award in the Exhibition of 1851. 
 Major 1852 ; Lieut. -Colonel 1854. In 1855 appointed 
 Mint Master at Calcutta. He married, in 1837, 
 Maria S., daughter of Dr Tyser, and his eldest son, 
 Percy G. L. Smith of the Royal Engineers, after a 
 long and honourable career, retired in 1887 with the 
 rank of Major- General. 
 
 GENERAL MICHAEL WILLIAM SMITH* (1809-91), post- 
 humous son of Sir Michael Smith, Bart. (1740-1808), 
 Master of the Rolls in Ireland. Served in India. 
 Lieut. -Colonel 1850. During the Crimean War he 
 commanded the Osmanli (irregular horse). Full 
 Colonel 1854. Assisted Sir Hugh Rose in 1858
 
 CELEBRITIES OF THE NAME 225 
 
 against Tantia Topee. Took part in the capture of 
 Gwalior, and otherwise in the operations against the 
 rebels in India. C.B. 1859. Commanded the Poonah 
 division from 1862 to 1867. Colonel of the 20th 
 Hussars 1883. In 1830 married Charlotte, daughter 
 of G. Whitmore Carr of Ardross, and by her had one 
 son, Major W. Whitmore Smith, R.A., an able writer 
 on military science. 
 
 SIR HARRY GEORGE WAKELYN SMITH,* Bart. (1788- 
 1860), victor of Aliwal and Governor of the Cape. 
 Son of John Smith, surgeon, of Whittlesea, by 
 Eleanor, daughter of Minor Canon Moore of Peter- 
 borough. Two of his brothers were present at 
 Waterloo. Entered the 95th as ensign 1805. Served 
 in South America under Auchmuty, and in the 
 Peninsula under Craufurd. Wounded at Almeida. 
 Present at Fuentes D'Onoro and at Ciudad Rodrigo. 
 At Badajos he rescued two Spanish ladies from our 
 soldiers, who were out of hand, and one of them 
 became his wife. Present at Salamanca, Vittoria, 
 Bidassoa, St Jean de Luz, Orthez, Tarbes, and 
 Toulouse. After the peace he was sent to America, 
 and took part in the burning of Washington. In the 
 attack on New Orleans, Pakenham died in his arms. 
 Returning to England, he took part in the battle of 
 Waterloo. C.B. and Brevet Lieut. -Colonel 1815. 
 Quartermaster -General of the Forces in Jamaica, 
 1826. In 1828 transferred to the Cape. When the 
 Kaffir War broke out in 1834, Sir B. D'Urban ap- 
 pointed Smith Colonel of his Staff. It was in 1835 
 that he accomplished his famous march from Cape 
 Town to Graham's Town seven hundred miles in 
 six days. He soon brought the Kaffirs to terms, but 
 his arrangement with them was upset by Lord Glenelg, 
 the precursor of Gladstone. 1839, Brevet Colonel. 
 1840, Adjutant-General in India. In 1843 he took 
 part in the Gwalior campaign under Gough. In 
 p
 
 226 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 1845, in the Sikh War, he was present at Mudki 
 and at Ferozeshah. In 1846 he fought and won the 
 battle of Aliwal. In 1846 he commanded the First 
 Division at Sobraon, for which and his other services 
 in the Sikh War he was made Major- General and a 
 Baronet, receiving the thanks of Parliament. In 1847 
 appointed Governor of the Cape. Here he again 
 brought the Kaffirs to terms, but in 1848 Prsetorius 
 and his Boers revolted, and Smith defeated him at 
 Boom Platz. In 1850, after the massacre of Whites 
 by Kaffirs, Smith, being unable to cope with the situa- 
 tion owing to insufficient reinforcements, was recalled, 
 and in 1852 was pall-bearer at the Duke's funeral in 
 St Paul's. Lieutenant- General, 1854. Died s.p. in 
 Eaton Place West, he and his Spanish wife being 
 interred at Whittlesea. M.I. His sabre now belongs 
 to the Queen. A crayon by Isabey belongs to Lady 
 Burdett-Coutts. 
 
 RICHARD BAIRD SMITH (1818-61), engineer, was 
 son of a Scotch surgeon, E/.N. Educated at Addis- 
 combe, and obtained his commission in the Madras 
 Engineers, 1836. In 1839 transferred to the Bengal 
 Engineers, and in 1840 a member of the Arsenal 
 Committee. Served under Sir Proby Cautley, and 
 on the outbreak of the Sikh War under Sir Harry 
 Smith. He received a medal for Aliwal, and a clasp 
 for Sobraon. In the second Sikh War he was under 
 Sir Colin Campbell and Sir Joseph Thackwell, taking 
 part in the action at Sadulapoor. Present at Chilian- 
 wallah (1849), and at Gujerat, receiving honourable 
 mention. Brevet Captain 1851. In 1852 reported 
 on Italian irrigation, and was offered by the King of 
 Sardinia the order of St Lazarus. Deputy-Superin- 
 tendent of Canals, N.W.P., 1853 ; captain and brevet- 
 major 1854. In June 1857 ordered to Delhi as Chief 
 Engineer. The assault of Delhi and its success in 
 the teeth of opposition from his superiors was Smith's
 
 CELEBRITIES OF THE NAME 227 
 
 grand achievement. In 1858 mint master at Calcutta ; 
 In 1859 member of the Senate of Calcutta University, 
 and aide-de-camp to the Queen. Died at Calcutta ; 
 buried at Madras ; M.I. in Calcutta Cathedral. He 
 married in 1856, Florence Elizabeth, daughter of 
 Thomas de Quincey. His biography, by Col. H. M. 
 Vibart, was published in 1897. 
 
 LIEUT. - GENERAL SIR EDWARD SELBY SMYTH,* 
 K.C.M.G., Commander of the Auxiliary Forces in 
 Canada. Served in India, in the Kaffir War, and in 
 Mauritius, besides holding appointments in Ireland. 
 Born 1820, son of Colonel John Selby Smyth, C.B., 
 by Isabella, daughter of John Thompson, Esq., of 
 Low Wood, Sheriff for Antrim. Married, 1848, Lucy 
 Sophia Julia, fourth daughter of Major-General Sir 
 Guy Campbell, Bart., C.B., by Pamela, daughter of 
 Lord Edward Fitzgerald. 
 
 SCHOLARS AND DIVINES 
 
 WILLIAM SMYTH * (1460-1514), Bishop of Lincoln, 
 and Co-founder of B.N.C. Fourth son of Robert 
 Smyth of Peelhouse, in Fresco t, Lanes., a country 
 squire, alleged to have been commoner of Lincoln 
 College ; Clerk of the Hanaper, 1485 ; Canon of West- 
 minster. Paid 200 as Clerk of the Hanaper for the 
 custody of Edward IV.'s two daughters. This he 
 paid over to Lady Margaret as governess to the said 
 ladies. Rector of Combe Martin, Devon, 1486, and 
 of Great Grimsby, 1487. In the same year made Dean 
 of Westminster, and in 1492 Rector of Cheshunt. 
 Trustee of the estates of Lady Margaret under her 
 will. In 1493 Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry ; 
 founder of St John's Hospital, Lichfield. In 1496 he 
 was translated to Lincoln, but resided at Ludlow and 
 Bewdley. In 1501 Lord President of Wales, with a 
 salary of 20 a week, being then President of Prince 
 Arthur's Council. In 1495 Chancellor of Oxford,
 
 228 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 which office he resigned in 1503. It was during his 
 term that Prince Arthur visited Oxford. In 1503 he 
 assisted in the Investiture of Warham as Archbishop 
 of Canterbury ; attacked by Empson and Dudley he 
 was forced to pay 1800, but this was repaid him in 
 1509. In 1507 he founded a fellowship at Oriel, and 
 a school at Farnworth. A benefactor also to Lincoln 
 College. B.N.C. founded by him and Bishop Button 
 in 1512. A great opponent of the regulars ; accused of 
 nepotism. He made three nephews archdeacons, one 
 of them, Gilbert Smyth, being made prebendary 
 while a layman. Portrait in the hall of B.N.C. 
 
 RICHARD SMITH, D.D. (1500-63), "the greatest 
 pillar of the Roman cause," as Anthony A. Wood 
 terms him. A native of Worcestershire. Prob. 
 Fellow of Merton, 1527, and B.A. ; M.A., 1530; 
 Registrar of Oxford University, 1532; Regius Pro- 
 fessor of Divinity, 1536, and B.D. and D.D. In 1537 
 Master of Whittington College, London ; collated by 
 Archbishop Cranmer to the Rectory of St Dunstans 
 in the East, also Rector of Cuxham, Oxon. ; Principal 
 of St Alban's Hall, and Divinity Reader in Magdalen. 
 Recanted on the accession of Edward VI., but equivo- 
 cating concerning the terms of his recantation, was 
 ejected from the Regius Professorship in favour of 
 Peter Martyr. After that he was imprisoned, and 
 on being released fled to Louvain, where he was con- 
 stituted Professor of Divinity. On the accession of 
 Mary, he was reinstated in his offices, appointed 
 Chaplain to the Queen, and Canon of Christ Church. 
 He gave evidence against Cranmer and Ridley, and 
 when, with Latimer, they were burnt in the Broad 
 Street, Oxford, he preached on the text, " If I give my 
 body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me 
 nothing." As soon as Elizabeth ascended the throne 
 he was again ejected from his preferments, and com- 
 mitted to the custody of Archbishop Parker, but con-
 
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 trived to escape, and was made Dean of St Peter's 
 Douay, by Philip of Spain. In 1562 he became 
 Chancellor of Douay University, where he died, 
 being buried in the Lady Chapel of the Cathedral. 
 The accusation of adultery hurled against him by 
 Bishop Jewel appears to have been false. He was a 
 learned and capable controversial writer, no less than 
 nineteen of his treatises being extant. 
 
 HENRY SMITH * (1550-91), Puritan, styled " Silver 
 Tongue," heir of Erasmus Smith of Somerby and 
 Husbands Bosworth. Born at Withcote, Leicester- 
 shire, the seat of his grandfather John (d. 1546). 
 Erasmus Smith, benefactor, was his nephew. Fellow 
 commoner of Queens, Cambridge, 1573. Entered 
 Lincoln College, Oxford, 1576; B.A., 1579. In 
 1587 Lecturer of St Clement Danes. This he owed 
 to Lord Burghley, whose sister, widow of Roger 
 Cave, his father had married, and who resided in the 
 parish. A very powerful and popular preacher, 
 suspended for irregularity by Aylmer, Bishop of 
 London, 1588. By Lord Burghley 's interest he was 
 restored. His sermons, models of pure elegance, 
 edited by T. Fuller, 1657. Buried at Husbands 
 Bosworth. 
 
 JOHN SMITH, divine (1563-1616), born at Coventry, 
 and educated at its school and at St John's, Oxford, 
 of which he was Fellow; M.A., 1585; B.D., 1591. 
 Lecturer of St Paul's Cathedral, and Minister of 
 Clavering, 1592. A benefactor to St John's College 
 and to Clavering. Married (1594) Frances, daughter 
 of William Babbington of Chorley. 
 
 JOHN SMYTH or SMITH (d. 1612), founder of the 
 sect of the Baptists. Educated at Christ's, Cam- 
 bridge ; M.A., 1576; Fellow and M.A., 1579; 
 ordained prior to 1595. Termed the Se-baptist. 
 Was Lecturer in the City of Lincoln from 1603 to 
 1605. In 1606 established a separatist congrega-
 
 230 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 tion at Gainsborough. In 1608 migrated to Ams- 
 terdam, and became Arminian. It was here 
 that he was called Se-baptist, because he baptised 
 himself. Died at Amsterdam of consumption. 
 Buried in the Nieuwe Kerke. Author of numerous 
 tractates. 
 
 JOHN SMYTH or SMITH* (1567-1640), genealogist, 
 son of Thomas Smyth of Hoby. Educated at Derby. 
 Tutor to Thomas, heir of the seventeenth Lord 
 Berkeley, with whom he went to Magdalen College, 
 Oxon., in 1589. In 1594 he was of the Middle 
 Temple, and in 1597 was appointed steward of the 
 Manor of Berkeley. The Berkeleys treated him so 
 lavishly that the family jester tied Berkeley Castle to 
 Berkeley Church to prevent the former from going to 
 Nibley, where Smyth resided. It was as Steward of 
 the Manor that Smyth was able to overhaul the 
 muniment room, whereby he found material for a 
 history of the Berkeleys from the Conquest. M.P. 
 for Midhurst, 1621. Died at Nibley. By his first 
 wife he had no issue. He married (2) Mary, daughter 
 of J. Browning of Cowley, by whom he had five sons 
 and three daughters. John Smith or Smyth, play- 
 wright, is said to have been his grandson. 
 
 SAMUEL SMITH (1587-1620), a Lincolnshire man. 
 Commoner of Magdalen Hall, 1604; Fellow of Mag- 
 dalen, 1608; B.A., 1608-9; M.A., 1612; B.M., 1620; 
 Junior Proctor, 1620. A. A. Wood terms him the 
 most accurate disputant and profound philosopher in 
 the university. Buried in Magdalen College Chapel. 
 Chief work, "Aditus ad Logicam," Oxford, 1613. 
 Five editions. 
 
 JAMES SMITH (1605-67), son of Thomas Smith, 
 Rector of Marston, Bedfordshire. Matriculated at 
 Christ Church, 1622, but migrated to Lincoln Col- 
 lege. Chaplain to the Earls of Holland and Cleve- 
 land. A friend of Massinger, and wrote the epitaph
 
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 of Felton. B.D., 1633 ; Rector of All Saints, Wayn- 
 flete, 1634. In 1639, Vicar of King's Nympton, 
 Devon. A Royalist, he managed to keep peace with 
 the Parliament, retaining his preferment. In 1660 
 Archdeacon of Barnstaple and Canon of Exeter, but 
 resigned these offices on being instituted to the 
 Rectory of Alphington. A poet with a very broad 
 muse, and a collaborator with Sir John Mennis. A 
 contributor, with Mennis, Donne, and Davenant to 
 "Wit and Drollery." This book was suppressed in 
 1656. 
 
 THOMAS SMITH* (1615-1702), Bishop of Carlisle, 
 son of John Smith of Ashby, Cumberland. Educated 
 at Appleby ; B.A., Queen's College, Oxford, 1635 ; 
 M.A., 1639 ; Fellow of Queen's. Select preacher at 
 Christ Church before Charles I., 1645 ; B.D., 1660 ; 
 D.D. the same year. In hiding during the Crom- 
 wellian regime, and married Catherine, widow of Sir 
 Henry Fletcher of Hulton. Chaplain to Charles II. ; 
 Prebendary of Carlisle, 1660; Prebendary of Dur- 
 ham, 1661 ; Dean of Carlisle, 1671. A great bene- 
 factor to Carlisle, Appleby, and Queen's. Bishop of 
 Carlisle, 1684. M.I. Carlisle Cathedral. Portrait by 
 J. Smith at Rose Castle. 
 
 JOHN SMITH (1618-52), Cambridge Platonist, born 
 at Acworth, near Oundle. Educated at Emmanuel 
 College, Cambridge; B.A, 1640; M.A, 1644. 
 Transferred to Queen's College by the Westminster 
 Assembly of Divines. Lecturer of Queen's. His 
 reputation rests on his connection with the school of 
 Cambridge Platonists, his papers remains having 
 been edited by John Worthington after his decease, 
 which was caused by consumption. He was buried 
 in the Chapel of Queen's College. 
 
 MILES SMITH * (d. 1614), Bishop of Gloucester, 
 son of a Hereford butcher. In 1568 student of 
 Christ Church, migrating to B.N.C. B.A., 1573;
 
 232 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 M.A., 1576; B.D., 1585; D.D., 1594. In 1576 
 Chaplain of Christ Church. In 1580 Prebendary 
 of Hinton in Hereford Cathedral. In 1595 Pre- 
 bendary of Exeter. An orientalist, he mastered 
 Chaldaic, Syriac, and Arabic. One of the transla- 
 tors of the Bible, and wrote the Preface. Bishop 
 of Gloucester, 1612. Here he quarrelled with Laud, 
 who was Dean, as to the position of the altar, but 
 had to yield in consequence of Royal interference. 
 He was a strong Puritan. 
 
 MILES SMITH, a relative of the Bishop, son of 
 Miles, a Gloucester clergyman (1618-71). Magdalen 
 College, Oxford; Choral Clerk; B.A, 1638; B.C.L, 
 1646. A Royalist, and persecuted. An ally of 
 Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury, whose 
 secretary he became. Buried in the chancel of 
 Lambeth Church. Author of a Paraphrase of the 
 Psalms. His son, Miles, was Gen. Com. of Trinity 
 College, Oxford (d. 1682). 
 
 THOMAS SMITH* (1638-1710), non-juring divine, 
 son of a London merchant, was born in All Hallows, 
 Barking. Batler or Bateller of Queen's, Oxford, 
 1657 ; B.A, 1661 ; M.A., 1663 ; Master of Magdalen 
 College School, 1663 ; Probationary Fellow of Mag- 
 dalen, 1666; Fellow, 1667; B.D. and Dean, 1674; 
 Vice-President, 1682; D.D., 1683; Bursar, 1686. 
 In 1668 Smith went to Constantinople as Chaplain 
 to Sir Daniel Harvey, the Ambassador, where he 
 remained three years, collecting ancient MSS. He 
 was among the earliest advocates of communion 
 between the Anglican and Greek Churches, and at 
 Oxford was nicknamed " Rabbi " and " Tograi " 
 Smith. In 1676 he travelled abroad again. In 1684 
 presented by Magdalen to the Rectory of Standlake, 
 which he resigned, and became in 1687 Prebendary 
 of Heytesbury. In March 1687 Smith endeavoured 
 to obtain from James II. the Presidency of Mag-
 
 CELEBRITIES OF THE NAME 233 
 
 dalen, but eventually, with the other fellows, was 
 ejected. He was restored to his Fellowship in 1688, 
 but, as he refused the oath to William and Mary, 
 was ejected for the second time. Eventually he 
 became resident chaplain to Sir John Cotton, and 
 for twelve years had charge of the Cottonian MSS. 
 Died in Dean Street, Soho, at the house of Bishop 
 Hilkiah Bedford. Smith's MSS. 138 volumes are 
 in the Bodleian. He was, besides, a voluminous 
 author and editor. 
 
 JAMES SMITH, D.D., Roman prelate (1645-1711), 
 born at Winchester and educated at Douay, of 
 which college he became President. In 1687 nomi- 
 nated by James II. one of the Vicars Apostolic 
 for England. Consecrated, 1678, Bishop of Calli- 
 opolis in partibus. After the accession of William 
 of Orange he was secreted by Tunstall of Wy- 
 cliffe. Died at Wycliffe. His crozier is in York 
 Minster, and his portrait in Laity's " Directory for 
 1819." 
 
 JOHN SMITH* (1659-1715), divine, grandson of 
 Matthew Smith (1589-1640), a barrister of the Inner 
 Temple, adherent of the Royal Prerogative. One of 
 his sons was a Cavalier who fought under Rupert ; 
 another, William, was the father of the above John, 
 who, being one of eleven brothers, was born at 
 Lowther. His third brother, Joseph, was Provost 
 of Queen's. Educated at Bradford, Appleby, and 
 St John's, Cambridge. B.A., 1677; M.A., 1681; 
 D.D.,1696. Minor Canon of Durham, 1682. In 1686, 
 chaplain to Lord Lansdowne at Madrid. In 1694 
 domestic chaplain to Bishop Crew, who gave him 
 the living of Gateshead, and made him Prebendary 
 of Durham. Rector of Bishop Wearmouth, 1704. 
 Died at Cambridge, and was buried in St John's 
 Chapel ; M.I. He married in 1692 Mary, daughter 
 of Wm. Cooper of Scarborough, and by her had
 
 234 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 George, who completed an edition of Bede's History 
 from the material his father had collected. 
 
 JOSEPH SMITH * (1670-1756), Provost of Queen's, 
 son of William Smith, Rector of Lowther, where he 
 was born. Educated at Durham and Queen's, where 
 he was Taberdar. B.A., 1694; M.A., 1697. Elected 
 Fellow 1698, in absentid. In 1701 Vicar of Iffley. In 
 1702 selected to deliver a congratulatory address to 
 Queen Anne. In 1704 Senior Proctor. Presented 
 by Dr Lancaster, Provost of Queen's, to Russell 
 Chapel and the Lectureship of Hanover Chapel. 
 B.D. and D.D., 1708. Rector of Upton Grey and St 
 Dionis, Backchurch, E.G. Chaplain to the Princess 
 of Wales. Prebendary of Lincoln. Prebendary of St 
 Paul's ; and, in 1 730, Provost of Queen's. A great bene- 
 factor to his college, for whose buildings, so incon- 
 gruous with their surroundings, he was responsible. 
 Buried in Queen's Chapel. M.I. In 1709 he married 
 a daughter of H. Lowther of Ingleton, who died in 
 1745. By her he had Joseph, an advocate of Doctor's 
 Commons ; and others. He wrote against the non- 
 jurors. 
 
 ALEXANDER SMITH, D.D. (1684-1766), consecrated 
 Bishop of Mosinopolis inpartibus, 1735. Procurator 
 of the Scots' College in Paris ; Coadjutor Bishop to 
 Dr James Gordon ; Vicar- Apostolic of the Lowlands. 
 Died at Edinburgh, August 21, 1766. Author of two 
 catechisms for Roman Catholics in Scotland. 
 
 ROBERT SMITH (1689-1768), founder of the Smith 
 Prize at Cambridge, son of John Smith, Rector of 
 Gate Burton, Lincoln. Educated at Leicester School 
 and Trinity College, Cambridge. B.A., 1711 ; M.A., 
 1715 ; LL.D., 1723 ; D.D., 1739. Minor Fellow, 1714 ; 
 Major Fellow, 1715 ; and held various offices in his 
 college. Master of Mechanics to George II., and 
 mathematical preceptor to the Duke of Cumberland. 
 A great supporter of Dr Bentley when he fell out
 
 CELEBRITIES OF THE NAME 235 
 
 with the college. Plumian Professor of Astronomy, 
 1716-60. In 1742 Master of Trinity, and in 1743 
 Vice- Chancellor. Buried in the college chapel. A 
 bust of him by Scheemakers is in Trinity Library, 
 and his portrait by Vanderbank (1730) in the Lodge, 
 while a third hangs in the Hall. A great benefactor 
 to his college. A voluminous author, some of his 
 scientific works being translated into French and 
 German. 
 
 GEORGE SMITH* (1693-1756), son of John Smith, 
 Prebendary of Durham, and named after his god- 
 father, Sir George Wheler of Charing, father-in-law of 
 his uncle, Posthumus Smith. He was a nephew of 
 Joseph Smith, Provost of Queen's, Oxford, and his name 
 was entered on the books of Queen's, 1710, he having 
 migrated, however, from St John's, Cambridge, where 
 he had entered in 1709. Settled in 1717 at New Burn 
 Hall, Durham, he there edited Bede's historical works. 
 Prior to 1722 he had been ordained by a non-juror, 
 and in 1728 was consecrated Non-juring Bishop of 
 Durham by Henry Gaudy and others. Buried at St 
 Oswald's, Durham. His wife was daughter of Hilkiah 
 Bedford, his eldest son being an M.D., who married a 
 daughter of N. Shuttleworth, and was grandfather of 
 Sir Charles Felix Smith. 
 
 WILLIAM SMITH (1711-87), scholar and translator, 
 son of Rev. Richard Smith, Rector of All Saints', 
 Worcester. Educated at Worcester School and New 
 College, Oxford, where he was a contemporary and 
 friend of Bishop Lowth. B.A., 1732; M.A., 1737; 
 B.D. and D.D., 1758. Resided at Knowsley as tutor 
 to the tenth Earl of Derby, by whom he was presented 
 to the Rectory of Trinity, Chester, 1735. In 1743 
 appointed Lord Derby's chaplain, and in 1753 Rector 
 of St George's, Liverpool. In 1758 he became Dean 
 of Chester. With his Deanery he held the benefices 
 of Handley (1766-87) and West Kirby (1780-87).
 
 236 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 Buried in the south aisle of Chester Cathedral. M.I. 
 placed by his widow, Elizabeth Heber. His chief 
 works were a translation of Longinus, a translation 
 of Thucydides, styled by Jowett "mediocre," and of 
 Xenophon. His portrait prefaces his translation of 
 Thucydides. 
 
 JOHN SMITH (1747-1807), Gaelic scholar, born at 
 Glenorchy. Educated at St Andrews. Minister of 
 Tarbert, 1775, and of Kilbrandon, 1777. In 1781 
 minister of Campbeltown, and in 1787 D.D.Edinburgh. 
 In 1783 he married Helen M'Dougal, who died in 
 1843, leaving two sons, John and Donald, with three 
 daughters. Said to have been an accomplished Gaelic 
 scholar and a voluminous writer. 
 
 JOHN SMITH (circa 1747), author of " Chronicon 
 Rusticum." Educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. 
 LL.B., 1725. He wrote chiefly on the wool trade, 
 which he desired to develop, and was praised by 
 Arthur Young and M'Culloch. 
 
 ADAM SMITH (1723-90), born at Kirkcaldy, June 5, 
 1723, the only child of Adam Smith, Writer to the 
 Signet, by Margaret, daughter of John Douglas of 
 Strathendry. The elder A. Smith was private secre- 
 tary to the third Earl of Loudoun, and Comptroller of 
 Customs at Kirkcaldy. He died in April 1723, and 
 the future political economist was brought up by his 
 mother. At three years of age he was kidnapped by 
 gipsies, and, possibly owing to shock, was a delicate 
 child. Educated at Kirkcaldy School and Balliol 
 College, Oxford, where he resided for six years. He 
 was entered Dominus in the books of Balliol, but his 
 name is absent from the list of Oxford graduates. 
 Returning to Kirkcaldy, he delivered a course of 
 lectures on English, wherein he exalted Racine above 
 Shakespeare. In 1757 he was elected Professor of 
 Logic at Glasgow, and in the following year was 
 transferred to the Chair of Moral Philosophy. In
 
 CELEBRITIES OF THE NAME 237 
 
 1759 he published his " Theory of Moral Sentiments." 
 This led to his visiting London in 1761. In 1763 he 
 resigned his Professorship in order to become travel- 
 ling companion to the young Duke of Buccleugh. It 
 was on his travels that he met Voltaire, and to his 
 friend Hume he was indebted for many valuable 
 introductions in Paris, including the philosophers 
 Holbach, Helvetius, DAlembert, Necker, Turgot, 
 Quesney, and Morellet, who afterwards translated 
 his "Wealth of Nations," which was published in 
 1776, and quoted by Fox, as well as eulogised by 
 Pitt, while Buckle termed it "the most important 
 work ever written." His monograph on Hume, 
 describing the peaceful death of one outside Chris- 
 tianity, evoked a severe castigation from the pen of 
 Dr Home, President of Magdalen and Bishop of 
 Norwich. In January 1777 he was appointed, by 
 the interest of the Duke of Buccleugh, Commissioner 
 of Customs 600 a year. Burke said of him that 
 he was the only man who thought on economic sub- 
 jects exactly as he did himself; and Pitt, at a dinner 
 bade him be seated first, because "we are all your 
 scholars." In 1787 he was elected Rector of 
 Glasgow. He died 17th July 1790, and was 
 buried in the Canongate Churchyard. The best 
 biography of Adam Smith is that by Mr John Rae 
 (1895). 
 
 JEREMIAH SMITH (1771-1854), son of Jeremiah Smith 
 of Brewood, Staffordshire. Hertford College, Oxon. 
 B.A., 1794 ; M.A., 1797 ; B.D., 1810 ; D.D., 1811. In 
 1807 Headmaster of the Manchester High School. 
 He married (1811) Felicia, daughter of William 
 Anderton of Mosely Wake Green, by whom he had 
 eight children. The eldest son, Jeremiah Finch, was 
 Prebendary of Lichfield. The third, James Hicks 
 Smith, was author, with other works, of "Reminis- 
 cences by an Hereditary High Churchman." The
 
 238 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 fourth son, Isaac Gregory, was appointed Prebendary 
 of Hereford. 
 
 JOHN PYE SMITH, dissenting divine (1774-1851), 
 son of a Sheffield bookseller. Educated at Bother- 
 ham. In 1800 tutor of Hamerton College, and 
 in 1806 theological tutor, an appointment he held 
 for life. His chief work was an attempt to re- 
 concile the mosaic cosmogony with that of geology. 
 It was commended by Whewell and Professor Baden- 
 Powell of Oxford, but is now out of date. 
 
 GEORGE CHARLES SMITH (1782-1863), "Boatswain 
 Smith," born in Castle Street, Leicester Square. 
 Midshipman (1797) in the Navy, and present at 
 Copenhagen. Pastor of the Octagon Baptist Chapel, 
 Penzance ; voluntary chaplain to the Army in Spain. 
 Opened a chapel for sailors on the Thames, 1819, and 
 organised the Watermen's Friendly Society, 1822, and 
 in 1823 the Merchant Seamen's Orphan Asylum. In 
 1824 he launched the City Mission. Died a pauper 
 at Penzance. He married (1806) Theodosia, daughter 
 of John Skipwith (see H. Smith, 1620-68). 
 
 SIR WILLIAM SMITH (1813 - 93), lexicographer, 
 eldest son of William Smith of Enfield. Educated at 
 a Nonconformist college, and afterwards at University 
 College, Gower Street, where he took first-class 
 honours in classics. Entered at Gray's Inn, but 
 abandoned the law to become headmaster of Uni- 
 versity College School. After editing several volumes 
 of the classics, including Plato's "Apology," he 
 edited the " Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiqui- 
 ties " from 1842 onwards. His "Dictionary of Greek 
 and Roman Biography " was completed in 1849, and 
 that of "Greek and Roman Geography" in 1857. 
 Other works followed, and in 1860-5 he was engaged 
 on "The Bible Dictionary." In 1875-80 he pro- 
 duced, in collaboration with Archdeacon Cheetham, 
 a " Dictionary of Christian Antiquities," and 1877-87
 
 CELEBRITIES OF THE NAME 239 
 
 with Dr Wace a " Dictionary of Christian Bio- 
 graphy." He was a member of the Commission on 
 copyright 1875, and in 1869 Registrar of the Royal 
 Literary Fund. In 1870 Hon. D.C.L. of Oxford, and 
 in 1890 of Dublin. Knighted in 1892. He married 
 in 1834, Mary, daughter of James Crump, Esq., of 
 Birmingham. A man of indomitable industry, and an 
 energetic compiler. 
 
 WILLIAM ROBERTSON SMITH (1846-94), theologian 
 and Semitic scholar. Born at Alford, Aberdeen, eldest 
 son of Rev. W. Pirie Smith, Free Kirk Minister at 
 Keig, by Jane, daughter of William Robertson, Head 
 of the West End Academy, Aberdeen. Educated at 
 Aberdeen University, where he won the Town 
 Council's medal. Proceeded to New College, Edin- 
 burgh ; and resided as a theological student with 
 Professor Schaarsmidt at Bonn. In 1869-70 assistant 
 Professor of Natural Philosophy in Edinburgh, and 
 in 1870 elected Professor of Oriental languages and 
 exegesis at Aberdeen. In 1875 appointed a member 
 of the Old Testament Revision Committee, and in 1872 
 studied Arabic under Lagarde at Gottingen. Author 
 of article "Angel," vol. ii. "Encyclopaedia Britannica" 
 and of " Bible," in vol. iii. These articles angered the 
 Free Kirk, and in consequence Smith ceased to act as 
 Professor in 1878, while in 1881, as a result of his con- 
 tributions to the "Encyclopedia Britannica" and to the 
 Cambridge Journal of Philology on totemism he was 
 deprived of his chair. Appointed assistant-editor of 
 the " Encyclopaedia Britannica " 1881. He had in the 
 interim visited Syria and Palestine. In 1883 elected 
 Lord Almoner's Reader in Arabic at Cambridge ; 
 Fellow of Christ's College, 1885 ; Chief Librarian of 
 the University, 1886 ; Adams Professor of Arabic, 
 1889 ; Hon. LL.D., Dublin, and D.D., Strasburg. He 
 bequeathed his Oriental MSS. to the Cambridge Uni- 
 versity Library, and his library to Christ's College.
 
 240 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 His portraits are in Christ's College, and in the Free 
 Church College, Aberdeen. 
 
 GEORGE SMITH (1840-76), Assyriologist. Born at 
 Chelsea, and developed an enthusiasm for Oriental 
 exploration. Sir H. Rawlinson in 1867 employed 
 him on cuneiform inscriptions. In 1870 appointed 
 senior assistant in the department of Oriental 
 antiquities, British Museum. Discovered the Chal- 
 dean account of the Deluge among the Layard 
 Tablets. The Daily Telegraph having raised 1000 
 for Oriental research, Smith went to Nineveh, and on 
 his return published "Assyrian Discoveries." He made 
 a second excursion to the East, but broke down near 
 Aleppo, and died there. Professor Sayce collected a 
 sum wherewith to purchase an annuity for his widow. 
 
 GEORGE SMITH, Bishop of Victoria (1815-71), born 
 at Wellington, Somerset. B.A., Magdalen Hall, 
 1837 ; M.A., 1843 ; Vicar of Goole, 1841 ; consecrated 
 Bishop, 1849 ; resigned, 1865. Died at Blackheath, 
 having married a daughter of Andrew Brandram, 
 Vicar of Beckenham, who was also Secretary of the 
 Bible Society. 
 
 HENRY JOHN STEPHEN SMITH (1826-1883), mathe- 
 matician. Born in Dublin. Son of an Irish barrister, 
 by Mary Murphy of Bantry. Educated at Rugby and 
 Balliol. Ireland scholar, 1848 ; double first and 
 Fellow of Balliol, 1849; B.A., 1850; M.A., 1855; 
 Savilian Professor of Geometry, 1860 ; one of the 
 Oxford University Commissioners, 1877 ; LL.D. 
 Cambridge and Dublin. In 1878 unsuccessfully 
 contested the University of Oxford in the Radical 
 interest. A man whose attainments were obscured 
 by an offensive affectation and a superb self-assertion. 
 Buried at St Sepulchre's Cemetery, Oxford, he having 
 been Keeper of the University Museum from 1874, 
 and Sinecure Fellow of Christ Church. He was 
 also Hon. Fellow of Balliol.
 
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 THEYRE TOWNSEND SMITH (1798-1852), originally a 
 Presbyterian student of Glasgow, was converted to 
 Anglican views by reading Hooker. Queen's, Cam- 
 bridge, B.A, 1827; M.A., 1830; assistant preacher 
 at the Temple, 1835 ; Hulsean Lecturer, 1839-40 ; in 
 1848 Vicar of Wymondham ; Hon. Canon of Nor- 
 wich, 1850 ; married Rebecca, daughter of Thomas 
 Williams, Esq., of Coate, Oxon. Author of sermons 
 and lectures. 
 
 EDWARD SMITH,* Bishop of Down (1665-1720), 
 born at Lisburn, being son of James Smyth of Monk- 
 town. Scholar of Trinity College, Dublin, 1678 ; B.A, 
 1681 ; M.A. and Fellow, 1684; LLB., 1687; B.D., 1694; 
 F.R.S., 1695; D.D., 1696. On James II. landing in 
 Ireland he became chaplain to the Smyrna Company. 
 Chaplain to William the Third during the wars of the 
 Low Countries. Dean of St Patrick's, 1696 ; Bishop 
 of Down, 1699, having previously been Vice-Chancellor 
 of Dublin University. He married twice. By his 
 first wife, a cousin, daughter of William Smyth, 
 Bishop of Kilmore, he had Elizabeth, who married 
 James, first Earl of Courtown. He married secondly 
 Mary, daughter of the third Viscount Massereene, 
 and by her had two sons. A contributor to the Pro- 
 ceedings of the Royal Society. 
 
 ELIZABETH SMITH * (1776-1806), Oriental scholar, 
 was sister of Sir Charles Felix Smith. Her most 
 learned work was a Hebrew, Arabic, and Persian 
 Vocabulary. She died unmarried at Coniston. 
 Buried at Hawkshead. M.I. 
 
 JOHN SMITH, D.D., only son of John Smith of 
 Kensington, was successively Rector of Fairford and 
 in 1796 Master of Pembroke College, Oxford, to 
 which is attached a canonry in Gloucester Cathedral. 
 He died in 1809. 
 
 Two brothers, sons of Rev. Bernard Smith, of 
 Great Ponton and Grantham, achieved distinction at
 
 242 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 Oxford. These were BERNARD SMITH (Demy of 
 Magdalen College, 1833, and the warm friend of 
 Charles Reade), who went over to Rome with Cardinal 
 Newman and became Roman priest at Marlow ; and 
 HARRIS SMITH, D.D., Fellow of Magdalen, Hertford 
 Scholar, and Vicar of New Shoreham. Both were 
 brilliant scholars, and must not be confounded with 
 Barnard Smith, the arithmetician. 
 
 The Very Rev. SAMUEL SMITH, D.D., son of Dr 
 Samuel Smith of Westminster, entered the University 
 of Oxford May 30, 1782, set. 16, and from 1824 to 1831 
 was Dean of Christ Church. He resigned in the 
 latter year his deanery, and accepted a prebendal 
 stall in Durham Cathedral, being succeeded by Dean 
 Gaisford. He died January 19, 1841. 
 
 GOLD WIN SMITH, D.C.L., son of a Reading doctor, 
 entered the University of Oxford as Demy of Mag- 
 dalen. With his friend John Conington, afterwards 
 Professor of Latin, he migrated to University 
 College, of which he became Fellow, and later 
 Professor of History. He relinquished his Oxford 
 appointments to assist in launching the proletarian 
 University of Cornell, and subsequently settled in 
 Canada. A strong Radical, and an able writer. 
 
 LITERARY, MUSICAL, AND DRAMATIC SMITHS 
 
 WILLIAM SMITH, Herald* (1550-1618), born at 
 Warmingham, Cheshire, a younger son of Randall 
 Smith of Oldhaugh. These Smiths were a branch 
 of the Smiths of Cuerdley, Lancashire. Supposed to 
 have graduated February 8, 1566-7, at Brasenose 
 College. In 1575 a member of the Haberdashers' 
 Company, then a restaurateur at Nuremberg. On 
 October 23, 1597, created Rouge Dragon. Died 
 October 23, 1618, having married Veronica, daughter 
 of Francis Altensteig of Nuremberg. Author of
 
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 "The Vale Royal of England, or Countie Palatine 
 of Chester," "The Particular History of England," 
 with various MSS. unpublished, which are included 
 in the Harl. MSS. 
 
 RICHARD SMYTH* (1590-1675), a book collector, 
 son of Rev. R Smith of Abingdon, Berks, by Martha, 
 daughter of Paul Dayrell of Lillingston Dayrell, 
 where he was born and baptised. Entered at 
 Oxford, articled to a solicitor in the city, and became 
 Secondary of the Poultry Compter, which office he 
 sold, devoting himself to collecting MSS. Buried 
 at St Giles, Cripplegate. Author of " The Obituary 
 of R. Smyth, a Catalogue of all such as he knew," 
 Sloane MS., British Museum. The work was edited 
 by Sir H. Ellis for the Camden Society in 1849. He 
 left in MS. " A Collection of Arms belonging to the 
 Name of Smith," alleged to be in the Heralds' College. 
 
 WILLIAM SMITH (flourished circa 1596), poet, an 
 imitator of Spenser. Author of "Chloris," and 
 " Corin's Dream," whereof two copies only are extant, 
 of which one is in the Bodleian. 
 
 WENTWORTH SMITH (1601-23), dramatist. Author 
 of thirteen plays written for the Rose Theatre. Best 
 known because three plays of his, under the initials 
 W. S., were published as by William Shakespeare 
 in the latter's lifetime a fraud easily detected, yet 
 repeated as late as 1664. 
 
 WALTER SMITH (flourished circa 1525), author of 
 " The Widow Edyth," a volume in twelve chapters, 
 each containing a "mery jeste." 
 
 BERNARD SMITH, als Schmidt (1630-1708), com- 
 monly called " Father Smith," a German, learnt the 
 art of organ-building under Christian Former of 
 Wettin-Halle. Erected an organ for the banqueting- 
 hall at Whitehall, and in consequence was nominated 
 Organ-maker in Ordinary to Charles II. He built 
 organs for Westminster Abbey ; Wells Cathedral ;
 
 244 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 the Sheldonian Theatre at Oxford, and for St Mary's 
 Church, and Christ Church Cathedral ; Durham 
 Cathedral; the Temple Church, for which he com- 
 peted with Renatus Harris ; St Paul's Cathedral ; 
 Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge ; St Mary's, Cam- 
 bridge ; St George's, Windsor ; Eton College Chapel, 
 now removed to Bishopstone Church, Herefordshire ; 
 Ripon Cathedral ; the choir organ of Manchester 
 Cathedral ; Southwell Cathedral ; the Chapel Royal, 
 Hampton Court; St Alban's Cathedral, removed 
 from St Dunstan's, Tower Street ; Chester Cathedral ; 
 Pembroke, Emmanuel, and Christ's, Cambridge ; and 
 numerous parish churches. His portrait is in the 
 Oxford Music School. Smith's daughter married 
 Schreider, one of his workmen, and his nephews 
 obtained some celebrity in organ - building, more 
 especially Gerard Smith. Christian Smith, living in 
 1643, has been assumed to be his brother, but 
 query ? 
 
 JOHN SMITH or SMYTH (1662-1717), dramatist, son 
 of J. Smyth of Barton (?), Gloucestershire. In 1676 
 chorister of Magdalen College, Oxford ; matriculating 
 1679; B.A., 1683; M.A., 1686; Choral Clerk, 1682; 
 Usher, 1689. Buried in Magdalen Chapel. Author 
 of " Win her and take her," played in London in 
 1691, and dedicated to Lord Danby, with an epilogue 
 by Tom D'Urfey. Author also of " Odes Para- 
 phrased" and " Scaronides, or Virgil Travesty." 
 
 WILLIAM SMITH (1651-1735), antiquary, son of 
 William Smith of Easby, Yorkshire, by Anne, 
 daughter of Francis Lay ton, master of the jewel- 
 house to Charles I. Educated at University College, 
 Oxford. B.A., 1672 ; M.A., 1675. In 1673 Rector 
 of Goodmanham, Yorkshire, and in 1675 elected 
 Fellow of University College. Incorporated at Cam- 
 bridge, 1678. Presented by his college to Melsonby 
 Rectory, Yorks, to which he was instituted twice (!)
 
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 -viz. October 1704 and June 1706. In 1705 he 
 married, and vacated his Fellowship, but was per- 
 mitted to retain its dividends until 1711. Author of 
 "Annals of University College" and "Litterse de 
 Sarumaria," together with twenty-seven volumes, in 
 MS., of " Researches connected with Oxford," now 
 in the possession of the Society of Antiquaries. 
 
 JOHN SMITH (1673-80), clockmaker and writer on 
 clocks. 
 
 WILLIAM SMITH (d. 1696), actor, a barrister of 
 Gray's Inn, who joined the Duke of York's company 
 under Sir William Davenant. He played a vast 
 number of parts between 1663 and 1696, and Pepys 
 narrates how he killed a man in a quarrel over the 
 dice. Shortly after James II. 's accession Smith was 
 struck behind the scenes by a gentleman, whom, in 
 consequence, the King refused to receive at Court. 
 A number of young bloods thereon guyed Smith, who 
 for eleven years retired from the stage. He returned 
 in 1695, at the earnest entreaty of Betterton, Mrs 
 Barry, and Congreve. In the following year he 
 played Cyaxares in Banks' " Cyrus," but was taken 
 ill suddenly on the fourth representation and died. 
 [See Genest's " English Stage."] 
 
 JOHN CHRISTOPHER SMITH (1712-95), son of J. C. 
 Schmidt of Anspach. Educated at Clare's Academy, 
 Soho. A pupil said to be the solitary pupil of 
 Handel, and also of Pepusch and Kosingrave, organist 
 of the Foundling. Garrick produced his opera, 
 " The Fairies," at Drury Lane in 1774. Composer 
 of several oratorios. Handel left him his scores, 
 which he bequeathed to George III., as well as his 
 harpsichord and bust by Roubillac, which are now 
 at Windsor Castle. He died at Bath. 
 
 EDMUND SMITH (1672-1710), minor poet, only son 
 of Edmund Neale, by Margaret, daughter of Sir 
 Nicholas Lechmere. His father being impoverished,
 
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 he was adopted by his uncle, Matthew Smith, who 
 had married Sir N. Lechmere's sister, and assumed 
 his name. Educated at Westminster, under Dr 
 Busby, and elected student of Christ Church. At 
 Oxford, he wrote panegyrics on the birth of the 
 Prince of Wales (1688), and on the coronation of 
 William and Mary. In 1691 he composed an alcaic ode 
 on the death of Pococke, the Orientalist. Nicknamed 
 " Captain Kag " (Gent Mag., June 1780). M. A. July 
 1696, and in 1701 delivered the annual oration in 
 praise of Bodley. On April 24, 1705, expelled from 
 Christ Church for lampooning Dean Aldrich. In 
 1690 he had been admitted to the Inner Temple, 
 and, after quitting Oxford, fell in with Addison, who 
 invited him to write a history of the Revolution in 
 the Whig interest. In 1707 his tragedy, "Phsedra 
 and Hippolitus," was enacted at the Haymarket, 
 with a prologue by Addison ; Betterton and Mrs 
 Oldfield being in the caste. Praised by the critics, 
 the piece was damned by the public. At a revival in 
 1754, Peg Woffington played Phaedra. He died at 
 Hartham, Wilts, from an excessive dose of medicine. 
 Johnson described him as a lucky writer, who, with- 
 out much labour, attained high reputation ; on the 
 other hand, the great Doctor placed his elegy on 
 Philips, an Oxford crony of Smith's, as " one of the 
 best our language can show an elegant mixture of 
 fondness and admiration, of dignity and softness." 
 
 CHARLES SMITH, Irish county historian (1715-62), 
 an apothecary at Dungarvan. His more important 
 histories were those of Waterford and Cork. 
 Founder in 1756 of the Medico-Philosophical Society 
 of Dublin. 
 
 JOSEPH SMITH (1682-1770), collector of books and 
 MSS., connoisseur of pictures and jewels. British 
 Consul at Venice. Horace Walpole dubbed him " the 
 Merchant of Venice." Edited, in 1729, Boccaccio's
 
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 "Decameron." George II. bought his library for 
 10,000, now in the British Museum ; George III. 
 bought his art collection ; and Lord Dundas and he 
 his MSS. for Blenheim. In 1758 he married a sister 
 of Murray, Ambassador to the Porte. 
 
 WILLIAM SMITH (1730-1819), actor, known as 
 " Gentleman Smith," son of William Smith, grocer, 
 of the City. Educated at Eton and St John's, 
 Cambridge, where he fired an unloaded pistol at 
 the Proctor. A pupil of Spranger Barry, he ap- 
 peared with Mrs Gibber in the title-r6le of Lee's 
 "Theodosius." Played Polydore in "The Orphan," 
 and was the original Southampton in Jones' "Earl of 
 Essex." Played Dollabella in "All for Love," and 
 Abredah in "The Siege of Damascus." In the same 
 year (1753) made his first appearance in comedy as 
 Orlando in "As you like it." Spoke the prologue to 
 " The Distrest Mother." He enacted numerous other 
 parts, remaining at Covent Garden till the close of the 
 1774 season. During his career he played Anthony, 
 Henry V., Romeo, Comus, Hotspur, Lothario, Hamlet, 
 Coriolanus, Lord Foppington, Sir Harry Wildair, 
 Richard III., lago, and Macbeth. He told Garrick 
 he could play at a day's notice fifty- two parts, and 
 quarrelled with Colman as to whether he should 
 draw twelve pounds or twelve guineas per week. 
 In 1774 he played at Drury Lane under Garrick a 
 variety of great parts, his last being Charles Surface 
 in 1788. Died at Bury St Edmund's, leaving 18,000 
 to his widow. He married, in 1754, Elizabeth, 
 widow of Kelland Courtenay, and second daughter 
 of Lord Hinchingbroke. The Montagu family ob- 
 jecting to the stage, he offered to retire if they would 
 give him his stage income. This was declined, and 
 on his wife's decease he married a woman of humble 
 origin, to whom he proved unfaithful, levanting with 
 Mrs Hartley, who had played Lady Macbeth with
 
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 him, but he left his widow his fortune. He was 
 a great rider, and refused to play on a Monday in 
 the hunting season. He is known to have ridden 
 eighteen miles an hour in order to appear on the 
 boards. Portraits in the Garrick Club and National 
 Portrait Gallery, the latter by Hoppner. 
 
 PLEASANCE, LADY SMITH* (1773-1877), daughter of 
 Robert Reeve of Lowestoft. She married, in 1796, 
 Sir James E. Smith, whom she survived forty-nine 
 years. Her chief distinction consists in having been 
 painted by Opie as a gipsy, and in her extraordinary 
 longevity; but she was a woman of parts, and enjoyed 
 the friendship of Whewell, Sedgwick, and Dean 
 Stanley. Buried at St Margaret's, Lowestoft, where 
 is a memorial window to her. 
 
 GEORGE TOWNSHEND SMITH (1813-77), brother of 
 Samuel, organist at Windsor and of Montem, Vicar- 
 Choral of Westminster Abbey, tenor singer and com- 
 poser. A man universally respected alike for his 
 sterling musical qualifications as organist of Hereford 
 Cathedral and conductor of the Festival of the Three 
 Choirs. Author of several anthems and of some few 
 songs, the best known whereof is "The Bonny Owl." 
 
 CHARLOTTE SMITH (1749-1806), novelist, daughter 
 of Nicholas Turner, Esq. of Stoke House, Surrey. 
 Married Benjamin, son of Richard Smith, West India 
 merchant and director of the East India Company. 
 Her husband served as High Sheriff for Hants, as 
 of Lys, but eventually became bankrupt. In conse- 
 quence she published "Elegiac Sonnets," which ran 
 through eleven editions, and, after an unsettled life, 
 obtained a separation from her husband. Her first 
 novel, "Emmeline," proved a pecuniary success, and 
 was followed by " Celestina," " Desmond," and " The 
 Old Manor House." She died at Tetford, Surrey, 
 and was buried at Stoke Church. M.I. 
 
 JOHN SMITH (1797-1861), Musician, born at Cam-
 
 CELEBRITIES OF THE NAME 249 
 
 bridge, and educated in a college choir. In 1815 
 Lay Clerk of Christ Church, Dublin, and in 1819 
 Vicar- Choral of St Patrick's. Appointed composer 
 to the Chapel Royal, Dublin, and Professor. Author 
 of various services and anthems. 
 
 JOHN STAFFORD SMITH (1750-1836), composer, son 
 of Martin Smith, organist, of Gloucester. A pupil 
 of Dr Boyce, and one of the children of the Chapel 
 Royal under Nares. In 1784 Gentleman of the 
 Chapel Royal, and in 1785 Lay Clerk of Westminster. 
 In 1802 organist of the Chapel Royal, and from 1805 
 to 1817 Master of the children. A beautiful glee- 
 writer, his chef dceuvres being "Return, blest days" 
 and "Blest pair of sirens." In 1793 he issued a 
 volume of anthems, and 1812 an erudite antiquarian 
 work, styled "Musica Antiqua," being a collection of 
 old music from the twelfth to the eighteenth century. 
 Stafford Smith was not the least of the band of com- 
 posers who created the glee, a musical form indigenous 
 to England, and distinct altogether from its modern 
 and German successor, the part-song. The Rev. 
 Martin Stafford Smith was chaplain to Bishop War- 
 burton of Gloucester, and married the Bishop's widow. 
 The Bishop died 1779, and it would appear that 
 the Rev. Martin was a son or nephew of the im- 
 mortal glee writer. Mrs Warburton may have been 
 the Rev. Martin Stafford Smith's second wife. 
 
 HORACE SMITH (1779-1849), younger brother of 
 James Smith, and, with him, author of "Rejected 
 Addresses." His father, Robert Smith, was son of 
 Samuel Smith, Custom-house officer, of Bridgewater. 
 After leaving Mr Barford's school at Chigwell, he was 
 relegated to a merchant's counting-house. He was 
 patronised by Cumberland, dramatic author, who 
 introduced him to literary circles. After publishing 
 three novels "The Runaway," " Trevanion," and 
 " Horatio," he wrote prefaces for plays, and it was
 
 250 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 owing to having been one of the "rejected " at Drury 
 Lane, when a prize was offered for a prologue on the 
 re-opening of the house, which had been burnt, that 
 he and his brother projected "Rejected Addresses." 
 After the impressive triumph of this splendid jeu 
 d 1 esprit, Horace Smith joined the Stock Exchange, 
 where he amassed money so rapidly that in 1820 he 
 was able to retire. A personal friend of Shelley, for 
 whom he strove to intercede with Sir Timothy, and 
 of Leigh Hunt. Next to his collaboration in "Re- 
 jected Addresses" with his brother James, his best 
 work was "Brambletie House." He wrote, however, 
 continuously, and it is alleged that Thackeray 
 named Laura of " Pendennis " from his youngest 
 daughter, who married Mr Round of West Bergholt. 
 His portrait by Harlow is owned by John Murray. 
 That by Masquerier remains in his family. It may 
 be safely affirmed that the chef d'oeuwe of the two 
 brothers is more popular to-day than ever. He 
 died at Tunbridge Wells. 
 
 JAMES SMITH (1775-1839), humorist, elder brother 
 of Horace Smith. Educated at Chigwell. Solicitor 
 to the Board of Ordnance. He contributed to 
 "Rejected Addresses" (1812), Nos. 2, 5, 7, 13, 14, 
 16, 17, 18. "James Smith," said Charles Mathews, 
 "is the only man who can write clever nonsense.'* 
 This was inappreciative. He and his brother Horace 
 were the greatest of all parodists, and their works 
 must remain so long as the English language lasts. 
 Died in Craven Street. Buried at St Martin's in the 
 Fields. 
 
 SYDNEY SMITH * (1771-1845), wit, born at Wood- 
 ford. His father, Robert Smith, must have been 
 eccentric, for he left his bride, Maria Olier, at the 
 church door, and after wandering the world in search 
 of fortune eventually settled at Bishops Lydiard, 
 where he died in 1827, aet. 88. Mrs Smith was said
 
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 to have resembled Mrs Siddons. They had four 
 children, of whom Robert Percy (Bobus) went with 
 his brother Cecil to Eton, while Sydney and Courtenay 
 were sent to Winchester. In 1789 Sydney became 
 Scholar of New College, Oxford, and in 1791 Fellow. 
 Ordained in 1794 to the curacy of Netheravon. 
 Tutor to Michael grandfather of Sir M. Hicks Beach 
 
 whom he took to Edinburgh in 1798. There he 
 formed a friendship with Jeffrey, Brougham, Francis, 
 and Horner, and became a member of the Friday 
 Club with Dugald Stewart, Playfair, Alison, and Sir 
 Walter Scott. In 1800 he married Catherine Amelia, 
 daughter of J. Pybus of Cheam. Assisted in the 
 formation of The Edinburgh Review, to which he 
 was a constant contributor. Preacher of the Found- 
 ling Chapel, and Lecturer at the Royal Institution. 
 Non-resident Rector of Foston le Clay 1806. In 
 1807 he published his "Peter Plymley Letters "to 
 support Catholic emancipation. Sixteen editions 
 were issued in that year. In 1808 he moved to 
 Foston, where he built a parsonage. Vicar of 
 Londesborough 1820. Prebendary of Bristol 1828. 
 Exchanged Foston for Combe Florey in 1829. In 
 1831 fired off his immortal "Mrs Partington" speech 
 at Taunton, and Earl Grey made him Canon of St 
 Paul's. In 1839, having inherited 50,000, resided 
 at 56 Green Street, Grosvenor Square, where he 
 died, and was buried at Kensal Green. Of his issue, 
 Saba married Sir H. Holland, and wrote her father's 
 biography ; Douglas Westminster and Christ Church 
 
 died young; Emily married N. Hibbert, Esq., of 
 Munden Furnyvale, and Windham. His portrait by 
 Eddis belongs to Miss Holland. 
 
 CHARLES SMITH (1786-1856), singer, grandson of 
 Edward Smith, page to the Princess Amelia, and son 
 of Felton Smith, a chorister of Christ Church, Ox- 
 ford. Chorister of the Chapel Royal and solo singer.
 
 252 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 Deputy-organist at the Chapel Royal for Knyvett and 
 John Stafford Smith. He wrote the music for the 
 farces "Yes or No" (1808), "Hit or Miss" (1810), 
 "Anything New" (1811). In 1818 he was bass 
 soloist at the Oratorio Concerts. His best known 
 work is a setting of Campbell's " Hohenlinden." 
 
 RICHARD JOHN SMITH, known as " O. Smith " 
 (1786-1855), actor. An Irishman. He began as a 
 solicitor's clerk, but bolted to New Guinea, where 
 he met with exciting adventures. He obtained his 
 nickname by taking the part of Obi in "Three- 
 fingered Jack." After enacting a number of parts, 
 mostly villains, he played Newman Noggs in " Nicholas 
 Nickleby," Fagin in " Oliver Twist," and (1843) Hugh 
 in "Barnaby Rudge." His last and not least part 
 was Mmgrave in Charles Reade's " Two Loves and 
 a Life," at the Adelphi Theatre, April 1854. He 
 was buried at Norwood Cemetery. 
 
 AQUILA SMITH, M.D. (1806-90), Irish antiquary, son 
 of William Smith of Nenagh, Tipperary. Educated 
 at Trinity College, Dublin, receiving the degree M.D. 
 hon. causd in 1839. Member of the Royal Irish 
 Academy, and a learned numismatist. He repre- 
 sented the Irish College of Physicians on the Council 
 of Medical Education. 
 
 CHARLES ROACH SMITH* (1807-90), antiquary, son 
 of a farmer at Shanklin. Began life as a chemist. 
 A great collector of antiquities, he amassed from 
 London excavations the nucleus of the collection of 
 the Romano-British antiquities now in the British 
 Museum. Elected F.S.A. December 22, 1836; 
 Honorary Secretary of the Numismatic Society. He 
 intervened with Napoleon on behalf of the Roman 
 Walls at Dax, and a medal (1858) was struck to com- 
 memorate the event in France. A marble medallion 
 of him by Fontana is in the possession of the Society 
 of Antiquaries. Unmarried.
 
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 WILLIAM HENRY SMITH (1808-72), philosopher 
 and poet, son of Richard Smith, barrister. Born 
 at North End, Fulham. Educated at Radley and 
 Glasgow. On his father's death he was placed with 
 Sharon Turner to study law, and was called to the 
 Bar, but did not practise. A friend of Maurice, Mill, 
 and Sterling. His poems " Guidone " and " Solitude " 
 appeared in 1836. He contributed one hundred 
 and twenty-six articles to Blackwood. Macready 
 produced his tragedy, " Athelwold," in 1843, a succes 
 destime. In 1857 he published " Thorndale, a Con- 
 flict of Opinions," another succes cFestime; as also 
 "Gravenhurst." He married in 1861, Lucy Caroline, 
 daughter of Dr George Gumming a lady whose 
 monograph has helped to preserve his memory. 
 M. Joseph Milrand, " Litterature Anglaise et Philo- 
 sophic," has both described and analysed the peculiar 
 views expressed by dialogue in "Gravenhurst." In 
 his dramas he appears to have taken Sir H. Taylor 
 as a model. He died at Brighton, and his widow 
 survived him nine years. 
 
 ROBERT H. SODEN SMITH (1822-90), librarian, South 
 Kensington, son of Captain Smith of Dirleton, 
 N.B., who was Athlone Pursuivant-at-Arms under 
 Sir Bernard Burke. Educated at Trinity College, 
 Dublin. Tutor to the third Marquess Camden. 1857, 
 assistant of the South Kensington Art Museum; 
 Keeper, 1868. Unmarried. Author of " Flower and 
 Bird Posies." 
 
 ROBERT A. SMITH (1780-1829), son of a weaver. 
 Born at Reading of Scotch parents. In 1807 pre- 
 centor at Paisley. 1822, musical conductor of St 
 George's, Edinburgh. Author of "Jessie, the Flow'r 
 of Dunblane." 
 
 ALBERT SMITH (1816-60) was son of Richard Smith, 
 surgeon, of Chertsey, and educated at Merchant 
 Taylors. In 1838 he became a member of the Col-
 
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 lege of Surgeons, and practised with his father at 
 Chertsey. In 1841 he commenced a London practice 
 at 14 Percy Street, W., but soon deserted medicine 
 for literature. He began by contributing to Bentley's 
 Miscellany, and this led to his joining the staff 
 of Punch. His first drama, "Blanche Heriot," was 
 produced at the Surrey Theatre, September 26, 1842. 
 To Bentley he contributed "The Adventures of Mr 
 Ledbury," and for the Lyceum he wrote a series of 
 extravaganzas. For the Adelphi he wrote "Esmer- 
 alda," a highly popular burlesque, and for the 
 Princess' "The Alhambra." His serial "Christo- 
 pher Tadpole," 1848, had an immense sale, and there 
 were those who ranked it on a level with " Pickwick." 
 In 1850 he commenced as lecturer with "The Over- 
 land Mail," followed in 1852-8 by "Mont Blanc." 
 He was then in the zenith of his popularity, but 
 shortly after commencing a new entertainment at the 
 Egyptian Hall, called " China," he died of bronchitis, 
 and was buried at Brompton Cemetery, May 23, 
 1860. He married, August 1, 1859, Mary Lucy, 
 elder daughter of Keeley, the comedian, who died 
 March 19, 1870. His geniality and good humour 
 rendered him a prime favourite with the public, but 
 his presence was more powerful than his pen. 
 
 ALEXANDER SMITH (1830-67), Scotch poet, son of 
 Peter Smith by Helen Murray, said to have been a 
 lady. His father was a mechanic, and he was em- 
 ployed as a lace-pattern designer at Paisley. His 
 first work, "A Life Drama," was supported by 
 Lewes, and won some recognition. He became 
 editor of the Glasgow Miscellany, and in 1854 
 was appointed secretary to Edinburgh University, 
 and later registrar. He collaborated with Sydney 
 Dobell in a series of sonnets on the Crimean War, 
 which Blackwood ridiculed as spasmodic. Professor 
 Aytoun published a parody of these sonnets in May
 
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 1854, entitled "Firmilian," and when in 1857 "City 
 Poems " appeared, evidences of plagiarism were 
 adduced, and the poet's reputation suffered. He 
 married in that year Flora, daughter of Macdonald 
 of Ordin, Skye. 
 
 ALEXANDER SMITH commanded attention as a 
 Glasgow Alton Locke, and found admirers both in 
 London and in Oxford. His work, however, though 
 on its first appearance welcomed effusively, has not 
 survived. 
 
 EMINENT DISSENTERS 
 
 SAMUEL SMITH (1584-1662), the son of a clergyman. 
 Entered St Mary's Hall, Oxford, as bateller, but did 
 not graduate. Presented to Prittlewell, Essex, by 
 Lord Rich, where he identified himself with the Pres- 
 byterians. In 1648 appointed by Parliament rector 
 of Cressage, the actual rector having been ejected, 
 but at the Restoration was himself ejected for non- 
 conformity. His best known work was "The 
 Christian's Guide, with Rules and Directions for an 
 Holy Life." 
 
 HENRY SMITH* (1620-1668), regicide. Son of 
 H. Smith of Withcote, Leicestershire, descended 
 from the family of Smith alias Harris of Notts., 
 whence Erasmus and Henry Smith. His mother was 
 a daughter of Skipwith of Cotes. In 1623, owing to 
 his father's death, a ward in Chancery. Entered 
 Magdalen Hall, 1638. B.A., St Mary's Hall, 1640. 
 M.P. for Leicestershire, 1640. One of the Committee 
 for compounding, and one of the six Clerks of Parlia- 
 ment, 1648. One of the judges at the King's trial, 
 and signed the Death Warrant. Although attainted 
 as a regicide and imprisoned in the Tower, he escaped 
 execution, and was incarcerated in Jersey. He 
 married a daughter of Cornelius Holland, the regi-
 
 256 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 cide, and by her left an only daughter. He probably 
 died in the Old Castle, Jersey. Heath defines him 
 as a lawyer, but a mean one. He is said to have 
 been called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn, but this 
 appears to be erroneous. 
 
 STEPHEN SMITH (1623-78), Quaker, resided at Pir- 
 bright. He was imprisoned in 1668 for holding a 
 meeting at Elsted, and in 1670 fined 24 for preaching 
 at Guildford. Afterwards he was remitted to New- 
 gate for six months, and in 1673 he went to the 
 Marshalsea for non-payment of tithe to the Vicar of 
 Worplesdon. Buried at Worplesdon. Author of 
 various treatises in connection with his sect. 
 
 HUMPHREY SMITH, Quaker (d. 1663), son of a farmer 
 at Cowarne. In 1654, having become a convert to 
 Quakerism, he was arrested at a meeting near 
 Evesham, and George Fox visited him when in 
 prison. In 1658 committed to Winchester Gaol, 
 where he wrote several books. In May 1660, he 
 prophesied the great fire of London, which occurred 
 in 1666. In 1661 he was again in Winchester Gaol, 
 dying of gaol-fever. 
 
 WILLIAM SMITH, Quaker (d. 1673), imprisoned by 
 Cromwell in 1658 for non-payment of tithes. He 
 was a native of Besthorpe, Notts., and in 1661 was 
 arrested while preaching at Worcester for refusing 
 to take the oath of allegiance. He was imprisoned 
 in Nottingham Gaol from 1661 to 1665. Author 
 of a number of religious and controversial tracts, 
 some written in gaol. He married twice, his second 
 wife, Elizabeth Newton of Nottingham, surviving 
 him. He must not be confounded with another 
 Quaker of the same name, also a controversialist, who 
 was of Sileby and Market Harborough, at whose 
 house in Sileby George Fox held several meetings. 
 
 JOHN SMITH (1790-1824), missionary, born at 
 Kothwell, Northants, served in the West Indies
 
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 under the London Missionary Society. Tried by 
 court-martial, 1823, for inciting the blacks to revolt, 
 and sentenced to be hanged. Died in prison. Lord 
 Brougham espoused his case with warmth, but un- 
 successfully. 
 
 JAMES ELIMALET SMITH, dissenting preacher, nick- 
 named "Shepherd" (1801-57), was a brother of 
 Robert Angus Smith. Educated at Glasgow. A 
 mystical Universalist, and associated with the 
 Socialist, Robert Owen. Founder of The Family 
 Herald. Author of " The Divine Drama of History " 
 and of "The Coming Man." 
 
 GEORGE SMITH of Coalville (1831-95), born at 
 Tunstal. Son of a brickmaker. A philanthropist. 
 His brochure, "The Cry of the Children," attracted 
 the notice of Lord Shaftesbury. He had become 
 manager of the clay works at Coalville, and his 
 championship of the children lost him his post in 
 1872. He secured reforms for the children of persons 
 employed on canals, and endeavoured to upraise the 
 gipsies. From 1872 to 1885 he lived in great poverty, 
 but in the latter year received a grant from the Royal 
 Bounty Fund. Died at Crick, near Rugby. 
 
 MEDICAL AND SCIENTIFIC SMITHS 
 
 JOHN SMITH (1630-1679), physician. A native of 
 Bucks. Educated at B.KC. B.A., 1651; M.A., 
 1653; M.D., 1652; Fellow of the College of 
 Physicians, 1672. Died in the parish of St Helen's, 
 Bishopsgate, and was there buried. Author of a 
 tractate to prove that King Solomon was acquainted 
 with the circulation of the blood. 
 
 HUGH SMITH (d. 1790), medical author. Born at 
 Hemel Hampstead. M.D.Edinburgh, 1755. Physician 
 to the Middlesex Hospital, 1765. An advocate of 
 venesection. Died at Stratford. Buried at West 
 Ham. 
 
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 258 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 HUGH SMITH, said to be son of the above (1736-89), 
 M.D. Leyden. Married a daughter of A. Maclean of 
 Trevor Park, East Barnet. Also a medical author. 
 
 Sir JAMES EDWARD SMITH, botanist (1759-1828), 
 son of a nonconformist merchant of Norwich. 
 Educated at Edinburgh ; F.RS., 1785 ; M.D. Leyden, 
 1786. Founder of the Linnsean Society. Lecturer at 
 Guy's Hospital, 1789. Knighted in 1818 on the 
 occasion of the Prince Regent becoming patron of the 
 Linnsean Society. The Linnsean Society possesses his 
 bust by Chantrey. Author of thirty botanical works, 
 and of some dissenting hymns. He married in 1796, 
 Pleasance, daughter of Robert Reeve of Lowestoft, 
 who is separately noticed among " literary celebrities." 
 
 WILLIAM SMITH (1769-1839), geologist, son of 
 John Smith of Churchill, Chipping Norton, Oxon., 
 by Anne Smith of Long Compton, Gloucestershire. 
 Educated at the village school, where he acquired a 
 passion for collecting fossils. Under Edward Webb 
 of Stow he learnt surveying, and was employed on 
 the Somerset Canal. Blending business with scientific 
 research, by 1796 he had already sketched in outline 
 the strata of Great Britain. In 1806, having enjoyed 
 the friendly aid of two Dukes of Bedford, and of 
 Arthur Young, he published a volume on water 
 meadows. His magnum opus was a geological map 
 published in 1815, for which he received a premium 
 of 50 from the Society of Arts ! To create this map 
 he had sacrificed his small patrimony, and to crown 
 his misfortunes, his wife became insane. At this 
 time he seems to have been helped by his nephew, 
 Professor Phillips. In 1831 he was styled "The 
 Father of Geology," and at the instance of the repre- 
 sentatives of science in Great Britain, Government 
 granted him a pension of 100 a year. LL.D., Dublin. 
 He died at Northampton and was buried at St 
 Peter's. M.I.
 
 CELEBRITIES OF THE NAME 259 
 
 JOHN GORDON SMITH (1792-1833), Professor of 
 Medical Jurisprudence. Educated at Edinburgh. 
 M.B. in honours, 1810. Army surgeon. Present at 
 Waterloo, where he saved the life of Colonel Ponsonby. 
 Physician to the Duke of Sutherland. Surgeon to 
 the Royal Ophthalmic Hospital. Lecturer on Medical 
 Jurisprudence at the Royal Institution, 1825-26. 
 Professor at the London University. Died in a 
 debtors' prison after fifteen months' incarceration. 
 Author of numerous medical works. 
 
 THOMAS SOUTHWOOD SMITH (1788-1861), born 
 at Martock, and in early life a dissenting minister. 
 Entered as medical student at Edinburgh, and simul- 
 taneously became a Unitarian preacher. Published, 
 in 1816, a book called "Illustrations of Divine 
 Government," to prove that pain is a corrective, 
 which won the admiration of Byron, Moore, and 
 Wordsworth. M.D., 1816. Moved in the same year 
 to Yeovil, where he practised as physician, serving 
 also the Unitarian Chapel. Licentiate of the College 
 of Physicians, 1821, and Fellow, 1847. One of the 
 founders of the Westminster Review. In 1824 Physi- 
 cian to the London Fever Hospital. The treatment 
 of fever led to his becoming a sanitary reformer. 
 Jeremy Bentham bequeathed him his body for dis- 
 section, and this he performed in the presence of 
 Brougham, Mill, and Grote. In 1832 Smith espoused 
 the cause of the factory children, and was precursor 
 of Lord Shaftesbury's Factory Acts. He retired on a 
 pension in 1856, and in 1861 died of bronchitis at 
 Florence, and was buried in the Protestant Cemetery. 
 His bust by Hart is in the National Portrait Gallery. 
 Married (1) Miss Reade,* by whom he had two 
 daughters ; and (2) Miss Christie of Hackney, by 
 whom he left a son, Herman. 
 
 Sir ANDREW SMITH (1797-1872), graduated M.D. at 
 
 * I have been unable to identify this lady. She was not of our blood.
 
 260 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 Edinburgh, 1819, being a son of T. P. Smith, Esq. of 
 Heron Hall, Roxburgh. Entering the army as hos- 
 pital mate in 1815, be became staff-surgeon in 1837, 
 and in 1834 pioneered an expedition to Central 
 Africa, receiving the thanks of Government. It was 
 due to his representation that Natal became a colony 
 under the Crown. In 1852, just before his death, 
 the Duke of Wellington appointed him Director- 
 General of the Army Medical Department. He 
 resigned in 1858, and was created K.C.B. 
 
 GERARD EDWARD SMITH (1504-81), botanist, born 
 at Camberwell, was sixth son of Henry Smith. 
 Educated at Merchant Taylors and St John's, 
 Oxford. B.A., 1829. Vicar of St Peter's, Chichester, 
 1835; Kector of North Marden, Sussex, 1836-43; 
 Vicar of Cantley, near Doncaster, 1844-46 ; Vicar of 
 Ash ton, Cheshire, 1849-53; Vicar of Osmaston, 
 Derby, 1854-71. Died at Ockbrook, Derby. His 
 herbarium is in University College, Nottingham. 
 
 JAMES SMITH (1805-72), a Liverpool merchant. He 
 is known by his work, published 1859, " The Problem 
 of Squaring the Circle solved." 
 
 JAMES SMITH* (1782-1867), " Smith of Jordanhill," 
 geologist, son of a West India merchant. Educated 
 at Edinburgh and Glasgow. F.G.S., 1836 ; F.R.S., 
 1830. Author of sixteen papers on geology, and of 
 "The Shipwreck of St Paul." He also wrote a 
 Diatessaron. In 1809 he married Mary (d. 1847), 
 daughter of Alexander, and grand-daughter of Pro- 
 fessor A. Wilson, of Glasgow. Archibald Smith was 
 their son. 
 
 ROBERT ANGUS SMITH (1817-84), chemist, son of 
 John Smith of Loudoun. Educated at Glasgow. In 
 1842 assistant to Dr Playfair. President of the Man- 
 chester Philosophical Society, 1845; F.R.S., 1857; 
 chief inspector of alkali works, 1872 ; LL.D. Glasgow, 
 1881, and of Edinburgh, 1882. His special line was
 
 CELEBRITIES OF THE NAME 261 
 
 sanitary science, of which he was a pioneer. A bust 
 of him is in Owen's College, Manchester. 
 
 WILLOUGHBY SMITH (1828-91), electrical engineer, 
 born at Great Yarmouth. In 1848 entered the ser- 
 vice of the Gutta-Percha Company. Invented the 
 method of covering iron or copper with gutta-percha. 
 In 1849 laid the wire from Dover to Calais, and in 
 1854 laid the first Mediterranean cable, between 
 Spezzia and Corsica. Associated with Wheatstone 
 in his experiments on the retardation of signals. In 
 1865 he assisted in laying the cable from Ireland to 
 Newfoundland, and later took charge of the French 
 Atlantic cable expedition. Died at Eastbourne, and 
 was buried at Highgate Cemetery, July 21, 1891. 
 
 WILLIAM TYLER SMITH (1815-73), obstetrician, 
 born near Bristol. B.M. London, 1840 ; M.D., 1848 ; 
 Licentiate of the College of Physicians, 1850 ; Fellow, 
 1859. Appointed Obstetric Physician at St Mary's 
 Hospital. Examiner in Obstetrics in London Uni- 
 versity. Sub -editor of The Lancet. Author of 
 41 Parturition " and "The Principles and Practice of 
 Obstetrics" (1849). Founder of the Obstetrical 
 Society of London. President, 1860. Deputy-chair- 
 man of the Briton Insurance Company. Founded a 
 convalescent hospital on his estate at Seaford, of 
 which township he was bailiff for five years. Magis- 
 trate of Seaford from 1861 to 1873. He married 
 Tryphena, daughter of J. Yearsley of Southwick Park, 
 Tewkesbury, and left five surviving children. His 
 portrait is in St Mary's Hospital and in the Obstetrical 
 Society of London. 
 
 ARCHIBALD SMITH (1813 - 72), mathematician. 
 Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. B.A., 1836 ; 
 M.A., 1839. Senior Wrangler and Smith's Prizeman. 
 Fellow of Trinity. Fellow of the Royal Society, 1856. 
 Barrister-at-law of Lincoln's Inn, 1841. LL.D. Glas- 
 gow. Author of numerous scientific works, including
 
 262 THE SMITH FAMILY 
 
 especially, " An Admiralty Manual for applying the 
 Deviations of the Compass caused by Iron in a 
 Ship." A corresponding member of the Scientific 
 Committee of the Russian Navy. He married, 
 in 1853, Susan E., daughter of Sir James Parker 
 of Rothley Temple, and their eldest son, James 
 Parker Smith, represents the Partick division in 
 the House of Commons. 
 
 Sir FRANCIS P. SMITH (1808-74), inventor of the 
 screw-propeller, son of Charles Smith, postmaster of 
 Hythe, by Sarah, daughter of Francis Pettil. He 
 tried his model on a pond at Hendon, and patented 
 it in 1835, and in 1837 a fresh and improved patent, 
 which in 1844 was adopted by the Admiralty. Ad- 
 viser to the Admiralty 1844-50. In 1860 appointed 
 Curator of the Patent Office, and in 1871 he was 
 knighted. He married (1) Ann, daughter of W. Buck 
 of Folkestone, by whom he had two sons ; and (2) 
 Susannah, daughter of John Wallis of Boxley. 
 
 EDWARD SMITH (1818-74), physician, born at 
 Heanor. Educated at Queen's College, Birmingham, 
 and London University. M.B., 1841; M.D., 1843; 
 B.A. and LL.B., 1848. In 1863 Fellow of the Royal 
 College of Physicians. Lecturer and Demonstrator 
 at Charing Cross Hospital, 1853. Assistant Physi- 
 cian at the Brompton Hospital, 1861. A distin- 
 guished physiological chemist. Appointed medical 
 officer for Poor Law purposes under the Local 
 Government Board. An able writer on dietetics. 
 
 HENRY LILLEY SMITH,* surgeon, philanthropist, and 
 originator of provident dispensaries (1788-1859), only 
 son of William L. Smith of Southam, by Sophia, 
 daughter of Henry Chambers, of the family of that 
 name settled at Tarn worth, 1450. On his father's 
 side, first cousin of Sir Fortunatus W. Lilley Dwarris, 
 F.R.S. (vide Diet. Nat. Biography), and related to 
 Miss Elizabeth Carter, minor poetess (vide Diet.
 
 CELEBRITIES OF THE NAME 263 
 
 Nat. Biography). Educated at Guy's. Served as 
 assistant -surgeon in the 45th Regiment. In 1810 
 commenced practice at Southam. An eye-witness 
 of the evils environing the old Poor- Law system, he 
 was the pioneer of co-operation among the labouring 
 classes. In 1823, started the first provident dispen- 
 sary on mutual lines at Southam, following this 
 initial success by similar institutions at Coventry, 
 Northampton, Leamington, Burton-on-Trent, Derby, 
 etc., until the movement became general, there being 
 forty-five such dispensaries in London alone. In 
 1818, established an eye infirmary at Southam, which, 
 before his death, had treated over eleven thousand 
 cases ; and is stated to have been founder of the 
 allotment system, in the teeth of virulent opposition 
 from the farmers, but with the support of Sir Robert 
 Peel, the Premier. He married, in 1819, Mary, 
 daughter of Thomas Bicknell of Southam, and by 
 her left a son, in holy orders, and a daughter (vide 
 Encyclopaedia Americana).
 
 INDEX (1) TO PEDIGREES 
 
 SMITH of 
 
 ACRE (Sir Sidney), 164 
 Aldenhara, 132-135 
 Aspley, 120-122 
 Assheton Smith, 96 
 Ashstead, 63 
 Astley, 162 
 
 BALBY, 126 
 
 Barking (Berry), 17 
 
 Battle Flatt, 158 
 
 Baxtergate, 124 
 
 Bideford, 157 
 
 Belfast, 191 
 
 Blackmore, 14 
 
 Bleansley, 159 
 
 Als. Bowden Smith, 59 
 
 Brockhole, 125 
 
 Als. Bromley, Barts. (see West 
 
 Country Smiths) 
 Broxted, 14 
 
 Buckland Prope Maidstone, 23 
 Buckton Park, 159 
 
 CAMBDEN, 42 
 Camborne, 158 
 
 Camer, 59. (Smith Masters) 
 Camno (Berry), 17 
 i***-Als. Carington, 13, 41, 85-91 
 
 iparrington, Earl, Carington, 
 
 Viscount, 66-72 
 Cavendish, 33 
 Cawood, 44-64 
 Christ Church (Dean), 173 
 Church Lawford, 30 
 Corballis, 190 
 Craigend, 179 
 Crantock, Barts., 108 
 Credenhill, 20 
 Cropwell Boteler, 72-85 
 Cuerdley, 115 
 Als. Cusac-Smith, Barts., 182-183 
 
 Als. DORRIEN- SMITH (see West 
 
 Country Smiths) 
 Als. Dods worth, Barts., 119 
 Durham, 12 
 
 EARDISTON, Barts., 109 
 Als. Eardley, Barts., 172 
 Edmonthorpe, Barts., 98, 99, 100 
 Edwalton, 75, 76 
 Ellingham, 145 
 
 Als. FABER, 146-151 
 
 SMITH of 
 
 GADSBY, 73 
 
 Great Fen ton, 104 
 
 Glastonbury, 156 
 
 Gloucester, 164 
 
 Goldicote, 162 
 
 Als. Gordon, Barts., 112 
 
 Gorleston, 38 
 
 Greenwich, 23 
 
 The Grove in Cropwell, 166 
 
 HALESOWEN, 114 
 
 Hambledon (Viscountess), 142, 
 
 143 
 
 Hampden Manor, 169 
 Harnhilland Farmington, 151-154 
 Harwich, 14 
 Helmshore, 161 
 Horsham, 166 
 
 Als. Horton-Smith (see Mansfield) 
 Hough, 10, 108 
 
 ILMINSTER, 56, 57, 62 
 
 Isle of Wight and Parndon, 174, 
 
 175 
 Isleworth, Barts., 98 
 
 KENT, 23 
 
 Kidlington and Iffley, 144 
 
 LANGUARD, 164 
 Leeds, 128, 129 
 Leominster, 167 
 , Limerick, als. Smyth, 196 
 London, 29 
 
 Long Ashton, als. Smyth, 37, 97 
 Als. Lumley- Smith (see Mans- 
 field) 
 
 MAINE, 197 
 
 Smith-Marriott, Barts., 60, 61 
 Monaghan, 195, 196 
 Morville, 36 
 
 NEWARK, 44 
 Non-jurors, 101 
 Nottingham, 155 
 Nottingham and Mansfield, 105- 
 107 
 
 OLDHAUGH, 11 
 Old Windsor, 113 
 Orcheston, 165 
 Ostenhanger, 25
 
 266 
 
 INDEX TO PEDIGREES 
 
 SMITH of 
 
 Outwood, 145 
 Overton, 37 
 
 PAISLEY, 181, 182 
 Pauncefote, Lord, 76-77 
 Pickering, Bart., 139 
 Potterspury, 35 
 Preston Court, 76 
 
 QUEEN'S COLLEGE (Provost of), 
 170, 171 
 
 RESTALRIG, 180, 181 
 Ryhope, 151 
 
 GREAT SALING, 136, 137 
 Selsdon, 80 
 Shopwyke, 138, 139 
 Shortgrove, 118 
 Southfield, 131, 132 
 Southam, 173 
 South Shields, 165 
 Als. Stanydge, 70 
 Stoke Doyle, 170 
 Stratford-on-Avon, 116, 117 
 Buttons, Barts., 58 
 Sydling (see Smith Marriott, 
 Barts.) 
 
 TENBURY, 166 
 Thinghill Court, 163, 164 
 Toddington, 166 
 Twyford, 164, 165 
 
 Als. VEREKER (Viscount Gort), 
 
 198 
 Als. Vernon (Lyveden), 139-142 
 
 Als. WAKEFIELD, 43 
 Waterford, 192-195 
 West Country, 52-65 
 West Ham, 13 
 Bishop Wilton, 127 
 Withcote, 27 
 Woodhall, 79 
 Wribbenhall, 168 
 Wyghton, 34 
 
 SMYTH of 
 
 ABINGDON, 9 
 Annables, 22, 46-52 
 Athernie, 178 
 
 BALLYGOWAN, 198, 199 
 Ballynatray and Headborough, 
 
 186-188 
 Ballynegall, 185 
 
 CAMPDEN, 19 
 
 Castle Widenham, 188, 189 
 
 SMYTH of 
 
 Cavendish, 33 
 
 Colkirk, 45 
 
 Copcote, 42 
 
 Cressing Temple, etc. (als. 
 
 Carington), 66-72, 85-91 
 Cuddesdon, 113 
 
 DARTMOUTH, 12 
 Drumcree, 184, 185 
 Durpark, 189 
 
 ELKINGTON, 46-52 
 Exeter, als. Smith, 12 
 
 GAYBROOK, 183, 184 
 Glananea, 185, 186 
 Gloucester (Bishop of), 19 
 
 HACKTHORPE (Elkington), 28, 
 
 46-52 
 
 Holborne, 30 
 Als. Hovel, 42 
 
 ISFIELD, Barts., 109 
 KELMARSH, 35 
 
 Als. SMITH of Limerick, 106 
 Long Ashton, als. Smith, Barts. , 
 
 97 
 London, 31 
 
 MASONBROOK, 196 
 
 Merrow, 40 
 
 Mitcham, 39 
 
 Myreshaw and Heath Hall, 130 
 
 NEDGINGE, 31 
 Als. Neville, 14 
 Nibley, 20 
 Northants, 29 
 
 OSTENHANGER, 30 (see Smith) 
 Oxford, 36 
 
 PEPERHAROW, 38 (see Hack- 
 thorpe) 
 
 READING, 110, 111 
 Redcliffe, Barts., 100 
 Rivenhall, 34 
 Rochdale, 30 
 
 Als. SMIJTH, 15 
 Southwark, 39 
 Stoke Prior, 29, 42 
 Suffolk, 32 
 
 TREGONAKE, 11 
 
 UPTON, Barts. (Berry), 16
 
 INDEX TO PEDIGREES 
 
 267 
 
 SMYTH of 
 
 WALSHAM, 32 
 Warlingfield, Much, 24 
 Woburn, 10 
 
 SMYTHE of 
 
 ACTON BTJRNELL, Barts., 92-95 
 
 BARBA VILLA, 186 
 
 HILTON, 154 
 
 METHVEN CASTLE, 116, 777 
 
 SMYTHE of 
 
 WITHCOCK (see Smith), 31 
 
 SMIJTH 
 
 BARTS., 15, 102, 103 
 
 Of NORBORNE, 29 
 
 SMITHES of 
 
 WRENTON, 38
 
 INDEX (2) OF PRINCIPAL NAMES AND 
 PLACES 
 
 The following Index does not pretend to be exhaustive. To have given 
 references to every name would have been to reprint the entire work in 
 kaleidoscopic form ; moreover, a multitude of entries appended to such a 
 name as, e.g., John Smith, which recurs about two hundred times, would have 
 proved a source of embarrassment, rather than of aid to the reader. As it is, 
 the two Indexes the latter, as is admitted, condensed are out of proportion 
 to the size if not to the scope of the volume, and ought, therefore, to prove 
 amply sufficient for all practical purposes. 
 
 ABBOT OF READING, 7 
 
 Abingdon, Richard of, 10 
 
 Abinger, Lord, 63 
 
 Ackworthe of Wolwiche, 23 
 
 Acton Burnell, 72 
 
 Addington, Thos., 35 
 
 Adeane of Babraham, H., 81 
 
 Agar, J., 198 
 
 Agar-Robartes, Hon. T. C-, 79 
 
 Ailward, Oliver, 39 
 
 Aid worth, Rev. J., 74 
 
 Alexander, Right Rev. Dr, Bishop 
 
 of Meath, 184 
 Alfred, King, 87 
 Allayne, Richard of Derby, 20 
 Alles, Mary, 27 
 Alresford, skirmish at, 88 
 Alstenteig of Nuremberg, 11 
 Altham, Sir G., 15 
 American Smiths, 63 
 Anderson, Sir Edmund, 22, 44, 64 
 Anderson, Edward Miles, 28 
 Anketell Jones, Edward, 185 
 Annables, 22, 47 
 
 Annals of Indian Administration, 181 
 Annas in Lincolnshire, 28 
 Anstey, Anne, 40 
 Anthonie of Exeter, 12 
 Antigua, Bishop of, 183 
 Ap Gwillim, 22 
 Ap Harry, 21, 22 
 Ap Harry, George, 21 
 Ap Harry, Lewis, 22 
 Appulderfield, 30 
 Archaeologia Kantiana, 26 
 Arderne of Alvanley, Sir P., 86 
 Arlington, Earl of, 135 
 Arran, 5th Earl of, 142 
 Arundell of Trevize, 12 
 Ashby Folville, 68 
 
 Ashridge, 51 
 
 Ashmole, 158 
 
 Ashton, 44 
 
 Aspley House, 122 
 
 Assheton Smith, Thomas, sportsman, 
 
 208 
 
 Assheton Smith of Vaynol, 93 
 Atkyns, Gloucestershire, 152 
 Auber Leach, 142 
 Auckland, Lord, 79 
 Austen Leigh of Scarletts, 18 
 Austin, Rev. W. G. G., 183 
 Auvranches, 30 
 A'Wood, Anthony, 113 
 Ayliffe, John, 30 
 
 BABBINGTON OF ROTHLEY TEMPLE, 
 
 179 
 
 Badwell, 40 
 Baiard, 35 
 Bailey, C., 81 
 Bailey, John, Q.C., 106 
 Baines, merchant, 29 
 Baker, Sir Henry, of Sissinghurst, 25 
 Balby, 126 
 
 Ball of Hadley, Thos., 39 
 Balliol (Scott, alias), 26 
 Balthrop, Richard, 10 
 Baptist cemetery, Nottingham, 155 
 Barff of Carlton, Wm. , 44 
 Bargrave, Dean of Canterbury, 24 
 Barlow, John of Mansfield, 107 
 Barnard, 33 
 Barnard, Alf., 43 
 Barnard, L. B., 77 
 Barnesdale of Barwyk, John, 34 
 Barnett of Downshill, 38 
 Barony of Dudley, co-heiresses of, 116 
 Barrington, Sir Thomas, 51 
 Barroll, Sybil, 21 
 
 268
 
 PRINCIPAL NAMES AND PLACES 269 
 
 Barry, Hon. John, 100 
 
 Barrymore, Lord, 100 
 
 Barton, Dr, 142 
 
 Baskerville, James, 21 
 
 Battle Abbey, 150 
 
 Battle Flatt, 157 
 
 Bawton, 33 
 
 Baxter of King's Lynn, Wm., 34 
 
 Baxter of Stannow, Robt. , 34 
 
 Baxtergate, 124 
 
 Baydon, Smith of, 41 
 
 Baynard, 34 
 
 Baynham of Westbere, 20 
 
 Beaumont of Warton, 75 
 
 Beaven of Monkland, 163 
 
 Bechinoe, Captain, R.N., 61 
 
 Beds Visitation, 1634, 10 
 
 Bellasys, Anne Margaret, 43 
 
 Bell-ringing at Leeds, 129 
 
 Bendish of Bumstead, Thos. , 33 
 
 Bendysh, Thos., 45 
 
 " Benedictines of Ghent," 93 
 
 Bennet, Alderman, 14 
 
 Bennett, Alderman, 29 
 
 Bennett, Elizabeth, 44 
 
 Bennetts of Wilts, 132 
 
 Berks Visitation, 1634, 9 
 
 Berks Visitation, 1664, 10 
 
 Berry's Essex Pedigrees, 15, 16, 17, 18 
 
 Bery, Gilbert, 27 
 
 Besthorpe, Notts, 85 
 
 Betham, Sir W., 68 
 
 Bettenham of Pluckley, John, 23 
 
 Biggleswade, 10 
 
 Bird of Barton, 77 
 
 Birkett, Herbert, M.I.M.E., 107 
 
 Berkett, John, Pres. R.C.S., 107 
 
 Bishop Smith, Churton's Life of, 169 
 
 Bishop Wilton, 127 
 
 Bisset of Batcomb, 38 
 
 Blackbourton, Oxon, 152 
 
 Blacknall-Carter, Mrs, 144 
 
 Black Prince, the, 86 
 
 Blake, Charlotte S., 16 
 
 Blakesley, Lawrance, 10 
 
 Blakiston, Sir P., 88 
 
 Blayney, Cadwallader, ninth Lord, 119 
 
 Blood, Thos., 89 
 
 Blount, Richard, 21 
 
 Blount, Sarah, 26 
 
 Blount of Sodington, 94 
 
 Blunt, Sir W., 25 
 
 Blythswood, Lord, 78 
 
 "Bobus" Smith, 140 
 
 Bonevyle, Nich., 22 
 
 Bonner, Bishop, 104 
 
 Boone, Thomas, 81 
 
 Borage, 55 
 
 Bosanquet, George, 79 
 
 Bostock of Norcroft, 11 
 
 Bosworth, 35 
 
 Bosworth, Battle of, 157 
 
 Bosville, Sir Robert, 23 
 
 Boughton Monchelsey, 23 
 
 Boughton of Pluinstead, Edw., 23 
 
 Bourne, Dr Gilbert, 39 
 
 Bowden Smiths, 59, 60 
 
 Boys, David, 21 
 
 Braintree Union, chairman of, 137 
 
 Brampton, Walter, 40 
 
 Brand, Sir Joseph, 135 
 
 Branker, Joan, 25 
 
 Brecknok of Bucks, 33 
 
 Brereton, Sir Andrew, 10, 11 
 
 Breynton of Stratton, 21 
 
 Briscoe, Mrs, 115 
 
 Brocket, Sir John, 49, 51 
 
 Brockhole in Cantley, 125 
 
 Brodie Gurney, W., 131 
 
 Bromfeld, Lord Mayor, Sir E. , 20 
 
 Bromley, Sir George, 75 
 
 Bromley, Sir Henry, 72 
 
 Brompton Oratory, 150 
 
 Brompton, W., 34 
 
 Browne, Sir Hugh, 36 
 
 Browne- Willis, 122 
 
 Brownlow, Lord, 83 
 
 Browning of Cowley, John, 20 
 
 Brymore, 73 
 
 Broxted, 14 
 
 Brynkle, Smith, parson of, 2 
 
 Buckland Prope Maidstone, 23 
 
 Buckle, Stephen, 44 
 
 Buckner of Botley, William, 36 
 
 Bunny, Major, R. A. , 76 
 
 Burgess, Elizabeth, 15 
 
 Burgh, John, 39 
 
 Burgh, Oliffe, 39 
 
 Burghley, Lord, 27 
 
 Burnley factory hands, 123 
 
 Burrell of Cockfield, Ninian, 38 
 
 Burridge of Crimchard, 57 
 
 Byerly of Belgrave, 89 
 
 CADOGAN H. CADOGAN, 80 
 
 Calvert, Francis A. , 79 
 
 Cambridge, 1 
 
 Camden, 42 
 
 Cambden, Clarencieux, 24 
 
 Capua, Prince of, 187 
 
 Carey, Dr, Biography of, 181 
 
 Carey, General, 79 
 
 Carmichael, Baron, dormant, 178 
 
 Carmichael, Sir James, 178 
 
 Carington als. Smith, 13 
 
 Carington als. Smyth (Warwick V.), 
 
 41 
 Carington, Baron of WoottonWawen 
 
 71 
 
 Carington, Edmond, 13 
 Carington, Sir E., 13 
 Carington, Sir Francis, 87 
 Carington, Sir John, 88 
 Carington, John, 3, 13 
 Carington, Sir Michael, 67, 71 
 Carington, Thomas, of Broxton, 88
 
 270 
 
 INDEX OF 
 
 Carington, Viscount, of Barreford, 71 
 
 Carington, Sir W., 13 
 
 Carrington, Earl, 78 
 
 Carrington, Eric, 80 
 
 Carrington, Robert, 3 
 
 Carrington, first Lord, 69 
 
 Carringtons and Caringtons, Chapter 
 V.,66 
 
 Carlton Rode, 33 
 
 Carswell, Dorothy, 62 
 
 Caryll, Sir John, 88 
 
 Case, Alice, 31 
 
 Castle Eaton, Wilts, 153 
 
 Castlenau, Richard, 29 
 
 Castletown, Lord, 140 
 
 Cave, Dorothy, 27 
 
 Cave, Right Hon. Stephen, 50 
 
 Cave of Stanford, R., 31 
 
 Cavendish, 33 
 
 Cavendish, Hon. J. G., Admiral, 61 
 
 Cavendish, Hon. R., 60 
 
 Cavendish of Lingford, Thomas, 33 
 
 Caulfield, Rev. Dr, 79 
 
 Cawood, 44 
 
 Cecill, Richard, 35 
 
 Celebrities of the name, Chapter X., 
 200 
 
 Cely, Mary, 39 
 
 " Cerberus of the Treasury," 143 
 
 Chamberlayne of Maugersmiry, 73 
 
 Chambers, Anne, 44 
 
 Chambers, R., of Whitbourn Court, 
 183 
 
 Charles I., 71 
 
 Charles Edward, Prince, 194 
 
 Charnock, Agnes, 15 
 
 Chart, juxta Sutton, 23 
 
 Chernocke Barts, 122 
 
 Cheshire Visitation, 1580, 10 
 
 Chester of Royston, Sir Robert, 33 
 
 Chesterfield, Lord, 194 
 
 Chicheley, 30 
 
 Chichester Cathedral, Smith monu- 
 ments, 138 
 
 Chichester, Earl of, 79 
 
 Childersof Cantley, 172 
 
 Chipping-Norton, William Smith of, 3 
 
 Church Lawford, 30 
 
 Chute of the Vine, William, 17 
 
 "Citizen Smith" of Paisley, 181 
 
 Clapton of Kentwell, William, 31 
 
 Clark, Francis, 29 
 
 Clarke, Bart., 39 
 
 Clifden, Viscount, 79 
 
 Clysby, Agnes, 43 
 
 Colchester, siege of, 133 
 
 Coldingham, M., 76 
 
 Colebrooke Row, Islington, 132 
 
 Colkirk, 45 
 
 Collin, Fortune, 72 
 
 Colville of Culross, Lord, 78 
 
 Colville, John, 31 
 
 Colt, 34 
 
 Comberbatch family, 106 
 
 Compton, 7 
 
 Compton of Hartbury, Elizabeth, 42 
 
 Conder of Colwall, 89 
 
 Conway, Baron of Ragley, Helli- 
 
 gaurth, daughter of, 15 
 Coo of Coxall, 31 
 Cooke, Clarencieux, 163 
 Coote, Sir Charles, Bart., 186 
 Copcote, 42 
 Cooper, Mary, 142 
 Cordall, Thomas, 34 
 Cork, Richard, first Earl of, 186 
 Cornwall Visitation, 1620, 11 
 Cossam, Wilts, 30 
 Cotton, John, 101 
 Coupland, Eleanor, 44 
 Couthop of Cambrook, 38 
 Coventry, Earl of, 171 
 Coventry, Robert, 41 
 Covert of Slaugham, Sir Walter, 38 
 Cox of Beeston, 89 
 Crane of Chilton, Robert, 32 
 Creagh, John, 188 
 Credenhill, 21 
 
 Credenhill, John Smith of, 4 
 Creed, Anthony, 30 
 Creneure, 30 
 
 Cresset of Upton Cresset, 36 
 Cressing Temple, 14, 41, 71 
 Cressy of Oldcotes, Henry, 36 
 Crewe, Colonel, 77 
 Criall, 30 
 
 Croft of Hertford, 15 
 Cromwell, Elizabeth, 186 
 Cromwell, Oliver, 45 
 Cropwell Boteler, 68, 69, 70, 105 
 Crowder, Col., C.B., 119 
 Cubitt, Major, 76 
 Culfe, Anne, 14 
 Culverwell, Richard, 25 
 Cumberland, Duke of, 194 
 Cunliffe, Sir Ellis, 17 
 Curdesley, 36 
 Currie, Arthur, 18 
 Curtys, William, 33 
 Curzon, Abbot, 86 
 Curzon, Sir John, 86 
 Curzon, Gen. Hon. Leicester, 185 
 Curzon, Viscount, 75 
 Cusac, Sir T. , High Lord Chancellor, 
 
 183 
 
 DALTON, J., of Fillingham, 119 
 
 Daly- White, H., C.B., 81 
 
 Dance, George, R.A., 63 
 
 Dansey of Brinsop, Roger, 21 
 
 Danvers, J., 142 
 
 Davies, de la Marche, Reginald, 37 
 
 Davies of Richards Castle, John, 37 
 
 Dawkins, H., of Standlynch, 119 
 
 Dayrell, Pawle, 9 
 
 Dean of Christ Church, descent of, 173
 
 PRINCIPAL NAMES AND PLACES 271 
 
 Deane, George, of Stepney, 9 
 
 De Capell Brookes, Barts., 187 
 
 De Carinton, 85 
 
 De Clarendon, 104 
 
 De Clarendon, Sir Roger, 15 
 
 De Derndell, William, 37 
 
 Deedes, Rev. Cecil, 81 
 
 Deedes, Rev. Lewis, 81 
 
 De la Chambre, John, 192 
 
 De la Weare, Anne, 22 
 
 De Leon, Juana M. De Los Dolores, 
 
 64 
 
 De Montacute, Sir W., 86 
 Dene of Great Missenden, Edward, 29 
 Denston, 38 
 
 Denton of Ambrosden, 36, 42 
 De Oteley, Sir Ralph, 48 
 Derby, Earl of, Premier, 100 
 Dering, John, 24 
 De Rixton, Alan, 86 
 De Roos, Sir R., 86 
 De Scacario, Richard, 37 
 De Stifford of Essex, Richard, 23 
 De Toft, William, 85 
 Devel, Susanna, 18 
 Des Vceux, Marquis, 156 
 Devon Visitation, 1620, 12 
 Dickenson of King's Weston, F., 80 
 Dickenson of King's Weston, W., 79 
 Digby, Earl, 61 
 Digby of Welby, Thomas, 33 
 Dixon, Emily P., 192 
 Dods worth Barts. , 119 
 Dodsworth, J. , of Thornton Watlass, 
 
 119 
 
 Doneraile, second Lord, 187 
 Donne, Alice, 31 
 Donoughmore, Lord, 73 
 Dorington, Joane, 38 
 Dormer, Anthony, 88 
 Dormer, first Lord, 88 
 Dorrien, Thomas, 74 
 Dorset Visitation, 1623, 12 
 Doveton College, Calcutta, 181 
 Downes, Joane, 39 
 Drever, Dr, 74 
 Du Cane, Peter, 62 
 Dudley and Ward, Baron, 114 
 Dudley Ryder, 142 
 Dugdale's Notes, 6 
 Dunraven, Earl of, 60 
 Dunsany, Randall, Lord, 17 
 Duppa, Bishop of Sarum, 23 
 Duppa, Walter, of Greenwich, 23 
 Durham Visitation, 1615, 12 
 Duttons, the, 85 
 Dyer of Barnstaple, Richard, 12 
 Dyke-Ackland, 142 
 Dysart, Earl, 61 
 
 EAKYNS, Robert, 10 
 Eardley, Lord, 172 
 Eardley, Sir Culling, 172 
 
 Easthaugh, Anne, 142 
 
 Eaton Bishop, 170 
 
 Ecroyd Smith, H., 123 
 
 Ecroyd, W. Farrer, M.P., 123 
 
 Edgar, Nicholas, of Ashe, 32 
 
 Edgehill, Battle of, 88 
 
 Edlin of Pinner, Richard, 30 
 
 Edward IV., 53 
 
 Edward, C., 43 
 
 Edwards, Chancellor, 9 
 
 Egerton, Hon. A., 81 
 
 Egleton, whence the Kents, Barts., 
 
 72 
 
 Eldon, Countess of, 107 
 Eliot, Katherine, 122 
 Eliot, Sir John, 122 
 Elizabeth, Queen, 51 
 Elkington, John Smith of, 3, 4 
 Elkington Line, Chapter III., 46 
 Ellesmere, Earl, 81 
 Ellis of Long Melford, 33 
 Elmore of Panton, George, 16 
 Elphinston, Sir H., 59 
 Elston, Hugh, 19, 42 
 Emott, 20 
 
 Englefield, Mary, 88 
 English Pedigrees, Chapter VI. , 96 
 English Pedigrees, continued, Chapter 
 
 VII., 123 
 
 Erdeswick, Jane, 90 
 Essex Visitation, 1634, 14 
 Essex Visitation, 1664, 13, 14 
 Evangelical Magazine, 132 
 Eyre of Hodloke, Robert, 36 
 Eyres of Bath, William, 44 
 
 FABER, Rev. Canon Arthur, 150 
 
 Faber, Father, 150 
 
 Faber, Rev. G. S., B.D., 150 
 
 Faber pedigree, 146, 147, 148, 149, 
 
 150 
 
 Faber, Sir W., 150 
 "Familise Minorum Gentium," 43, 
 
 44, 45 
 
 Fanshaw, Henry, 25 
 Farington, Sir N., 86 
 Farnell, Sir E., 86 
 Farwell, Edmond, 13 
 Farwell, Sir Edmond, 41 
 Farwig, Adelaide, 131 
 Farwy of Brockley, 38 
 Fawley, Edward Miles, 28 
 Fitzakerley, John, M.P., 140 
 Felstead, Society of Friends of, 137 
 Ferrer, Honoria, of Weobley and 
 
 Dilwyn, 163 
 Ferrers, Sir J., 13, 86 
 Field, 44 
 
 Fifield, Anne of Farmington, 152 
 Fish, Oliver, 10 
 Fineux of Herne, John, 25 
 Fitzgerald, Selina, 76 
 Fitzgerald, T. W., 185
 
 272 
 
 INDEX OF 
 
 Fitzherbert, Eustace, 87 
 Fortescue, Sir John, 51 
 Fitzwilliam, Charles W., fifth Earl, 
 
 141 
 
 Fleetwood of the Vache, Bridget, 15 
 Fletchamstead, 7 
 Fly, Rev. Dr, 193 
 Folville, Ashby, 41 
 Ford of Harting, Sir John, 88 
 Ford of Keldon, 29 
 Forester, Lord, 78 
 Forster of Aldermaston, 62 
 Fortescue of Salden, Sir J., 22, 23 
 Foster, Mary, 26 
 
 Foster of Little Baddow, Wm. , 13 
 Fothergill, Dr M., 137 
 Foulshurst, SirT., 10 
 Fountains and Kirkstall Abbeys, 150 
 Fowen of Bristol, 38 
 Fox, George, Quaker, 85 
 Foxley, 37 
 
 Franklin of Maidstone, James, 38 
 Freeman of Beverley, Samuel, 45 
 Fulford, Sir John, 11 
 
 GABRIEL, Sir T., Bart., 106 
 
 Galway, William, Viscount, 17 
 
 Gamlingay, Smith of, 2 
 
 Garbesham, 31 
 
 Gardner, second Lord, 77 
 
 Gardner, Maria, 50 
 
 Gardiner, Captain Allen, F., R.N., 
 
 143 
 
 Gardiner, Kath. of Southwark, 49 
 Gascoigne, General, 82 
 Gaytonthorpe, Thos., 34 
 Gernon, 34 
 Gery, Mary, 36 
 Gideon, Sir Sampson, 172 
 Giffard of Chillington, Sir T., 41, 68, 
 
 87 
 
 Giffard of Salop, 37 
 Gilbert, Sarah, 17 
 
 Gilby of Bath and London, Thos. , 44 
 Gilby, uxor to, 28 
 Giles, G. E. of Bonchurch, 89 
 Glastonbury, Baron, 49 
 Gloucester Visitation, 1683, 20 
 Gloucestershire Visitation, 1624, 19 
 Goddard of Overton, Thomas, 34 
 Godden, John, of S. Petherton, 156 
 Godden-Smith of Wick, Alfred S., 156 
 Godwyn of Owkey, 38 
 Goldbrooke, Belinda, 17 
 Goldsmith, Oliver, 189 
 Gordon, James E., R.N., 80 
 Goodman of London, Ann, daughter 
 
 of, 35 
 
 Gore, Lady Esther C. G. , 142 
 Gore, Sir John, 29 
 Gorge, Sir Thos., 37 
 Gorge, Lord, 37 
 Gorleston, 38 
 
 Gort, Viscount, 198 
 Gosling, Charles, 17 
 Gower, Earl of, 140 
 Grainger & Smith, firm of, 168 
 Grant, Maximilian, 189 
 Grenville, Sir Barnard, 12 
 Grenville, Sir Bevil, 12, 56 
 Grenville, Hon. James, 49 
 Grey of Norton, 149 
 Grey of Back worth, 83 
 Grice, Richard, 187 
 Griffin of Dingley, 27 
 Grimblys, grocers of Oxford, 113 
 Gunton, 32 
 
 HACKETT, Bishop of Down, 16 
 
 Hackthorpe, 28 
 
 Hagthorpe, 38 
 
 Hales, Sir Philip, 73 
 
 Hales of Tenterden, Wm., 23 
 
 Halsted, Rev. R., 44 
 
 Halys, Alice, 32 
 
 Halysworth, 32 
 
 Hambledon, Viscountess, 142 
 
 Hambledon Line, 142, 143 
 
 Hames, Margt., 30 
 
 Hamilton, J. , of Belfast, 185 
 
 Hamond, 13, 41 
 
 Hampden, Sir John, 87 
 
 Hamper Paper Mill, Watford, 132 
 
 Hanbury of Bridgenorth, 89 
 
 Handford, Alderman, Sir Humphrey, 
 
 39 
 
 Hares, John, 31 
 Harewell, 67, 68, 87 
 Harewell, Agnes, 42 
 Harington, Sir James, 45 
 Hemminge of Poxwell, 12 
 Hende, Lord Mayor, 13, 87 
 Henry Marty n, Life of, 181 
 Henslow, George of, 10 
 Heralds' Visitations, Chapter II. , 9 
 Herbert, Lord, 71 
 Hereford Visitation, 1569, 20 
 Heritage, Hannah, 106 
 Heron, Sir Edward, 35 
 Herriett, Sir Thos., 13 
 Herts Visitation, 22 
 Hervey of Bradwell Grove, 82 
 Hervey, Lady Arabella, 82 
 Hervey, Rev. E., 122 
 Hervey, Wm., 115 
 Hervye of Clare, Thos. , 31 
 Herwood, Thos., 40 
 Hewley, Sir John, 44 
 Hewley, Thos., 44 
 Hevingham, Sir Anthony, 34 
 Hibbins de Weo, Chas., 36 
 Hide, John, 28 
 Harris, Smith als. , 27 
 Harris of Woodhay, 25 
 Harrington, eighth Earl, 78 
 Hart, Robert, 38
 
 PRINCIPAL NAMES AND PLACES 273 
 
 Hartley, Lieut. -Col., 106 
 
 Harvey, Sir D., 101 
 
 Harwell of Wootton, John, 41 
 
 Haselrigge of Leicester, Ellinor, 39 
 
 Hasted's Kent, 26 
 
 Hasting, Catherine, 34 
 
 Hawes, Sir John, 31 
 
 Hawkes, 34 
 
 Hawkins of Sugwas, Francis, J.P., 
 
 C.C., 163 
 
 Hawkins of Cardiff, Maria, 19 
 Hawley, Clarencieux, 37 
 Hawkesworth, Sir R., 183 
 Hayward, Sir Rowland, 25 
 Hay wood, S., 44 
 Havard, W., 21 
 Heathcote of Raleigh, 189 
 Heber, Bishop, Life of, 181 
 Higgins family, 164 
 Higham, 31 
 High Legh, 8 
 
 Hilkiah Bedford, Bishop, 101 
 Hodge, Right Hon. Sir C., 15 
 Hodgson, Christopher, of Westerton, 
 
 119 
 
 Hodgson, Dr, Dean of Carlisle, 80 
 Holborne, 30 
 
 Holdich in Thorncomb, 55 
 Holfords, the, 93, 94 
 Holme, Lieut. -Col., 89 
 Holroyde, Captain, 188 
 Holte of Ashton, E., 88 
 Hondon, 31 
 Hopwood, Maud, 21 
 Horsey, Sir Ralph, 12 
 Horsfall, J., 78 
 Horspoole, 25 
 Horton of Mowsley, 106 
 Horton-Smith arms, 105 
 Horton - Smith, Lionel, M.A., etc., 
 
 106 
 
 Horton-Smith, Percival, M.D., 106 
 Horton-Smith, Raymond J., M.B., 
 
 106 
 
 Horton-Smith, Richard, K.C., 106 
 Houghton, Toby, of Houghton 
 
 Towers, 14 
 
 Howard, Lady Isabella, 186 
 Howard, the Philanthropist, 132 
 Howarth, Captain, R.N., 43 
 Howe of Farnham, W., 14 
 Howell, W., 32 
 Hewlett, 40 
 Hood, cUs. Smith, 40 
 Hudson, J. , of Basingby, 77 
 Hulcote Manor, 122 
 Hume, J. S., of Mallow, 196 
 Hurstley in Kynnersley, 163 
 Hutchinson, Ven. Archdeacon, 184 
 Hyndford, Earl, dormant, 178 
 Hyde of Albury, 48 
 Hyde, John, 22 
 Hyston, Smith of, 2, 4 
 
 S 
 
 ILLING, W., 35 
 
 Inglisberry, and Nemphiar, Viscount, 
 
 dormant, 178 
 Ingoldsby, SirG., 186 
 Ireton, Henry, 45 
 Irish Pedigrees, Chapter IX., 182 
 Isacke, History of Exeter, 54 
 
 JAMES III. OF SCOTLAND, 176 
 James, Rev. John, ejected minister, 
 
 131 
 
 Jeffreys, Judge, 57 
 Jennor of Bigotts, Andrew, 19 
 Jennor, Sir Kenelm, 19 
 Jervois, J., 188 
 Jervoise, Sir S. C., Bart., 81 
 Joyce of Grundisboro', Robert, 34 
 Jones, General, 75 
 Jordan, Mrs, 115 
 Jud, Agnes, 23 
 Judde, Sir Andrew, Lord Mayor, 25, 
 
 26 
 
 KELLY, Sir Fitzroy, 75 
 Kelmarsh, 35 
 
 Kelpos of Watergate, John, 36 
 Kemp, Alfred Bray, Chancellor, 107 
 Kenchester Church, assault therein, 
 
 21 
 
 Kent, alt. Smith, 35 
 Kent, Earl of, 55 
 Kent Visitation, 1619, 23 
 Kidderminster Congregationalism, 
 
 168 
 
 Kinderley, Frances, 43 
 King Dr., Archbishop of Dublin, 184 
 King-Smith, Charles, 131 
 Kingston of Bandon, S., 188 
 Kinwarton, Rector of, 18 
 Kippington, Kent, 83 
 Kirke White, unpublished poems of, 
 
 155 
 
 Knatchbull, John, 26 
 Knevett, Lady, 40 
 Kyllachy, Lord, 181 
 
 LACHMANN, Herr, 76 
 
 Lainham, Robert, 13 
 
 Lancaster, Duchy of, 30 
 
 Langdale, Marmaduke, 94 
 
 Larkbeare, 12 
 
 Last-Smith, Dr E., 192 
 
 Lathbury, History of the Non-jurors, 
 
 101 
 
 Layham, 39 
 
 Laynham, Robert, 34, 87 
 Lawson, Dillon, 195 
 Lea, Ferdinando, 114 
 Lea, William, 114 
 Leadam's Domesday, 6, 7, 8 
 Leader- Williams of Diglis, 89 
 Lee of Langley, 93 
 Leeke of Hallom, Adam, 36
 
 274 
 
 INDEX OF 
 
 Le Faber, 48 
 
 Lefevre, Isaac, 18, 58 
 
 Leggatt, William, 32 
 
 Leicester, Earl of, 25 
 
 Leicester Visitation, 1624, 27 
 
 Leigh, Egerton, 82 
 
 Leigh, Sir John, 39 
 
 Leigh, Lord, 7 
 
 Le Maistre, Rev. Dr, 119 
 
 Le Marchant, Denis, 18 
 
 Le Marchant, Sir D. , 58 
 
 Lenthall of Latchford, 11 
 
 Lepard, William, 131 
 
 Le Smythe, John, 53 
 
 Leven, ninth Earl, 79 
 
 Lilborne, William, 22 
 
 Lilbourn, Eleanor, 48 
 
 Lincoln, Bishop of, 36 
 
 Lincoln Visitation, 1562, 28 
 
 Lisburne, Viscount, 135 
 
 Lister, Leonard, 10 
 
 " Little Blenheim," 134 
 
 Littlemore, 144 
 
 Llewellin, Dean, 76 
 
 Lloyds of Arnagowan, 189 
 
 Lloyd, Dorothy, 16 
 
 Lloyd, Sir John, 15 
 
 Lloyd, Charles, LL.D., 43 
 
 Loftus, Right Hon. T., 185 
 
 Long of Great Levermere, John, 33 
 
 Longfield, Richard, 29 
 
 London Visitation, 1568, 30, 31 
 
 London Visitation, 1633, 29 
 
 Lound of Essex, 34 
 
 Loveday, Xpofer, 30 
 
 Lowe, George, 25 
 
 Ludgershall, 7 
 
 Lumley of Dalby, Leicester, 106 
 
 Lumley-Smith, K.C., Judge, 106 
 
 Lumley-Smith Arms, 105 
 
 Lushington, Judge, 81 
 
 Lyanby, uxor to, 28 
 
 Lygon of Madresfield, Richard, 19 
 
 Lyght of Lyghtslary, Henry, 34 
 
 Lylbourne, William, 28 
 
 Lynford, Ann, 26 
 
 Lyster, Captain, R.A., 186 
 
 Lyttelton of Frankley, Sir John, 43 
 
 Lytton, Helen, Lady Reade, 49 
 
 Lytton, Judith, 49 
 
 Lytton, Sir Rowland, 22, 49 
 
 Lyveden Line, 139, 140, 141, 142 
 
 Lyveden of Lyveden, Baron, 140 
 
 MABERLEY, J., M.P., 80 
 
 Macadam - Smith, W., of Wivelis- 
 
 combe, 181 
 
 Mackintosh of Geddes, E., 61 
 Mackintosh of Inverness, 181 
 Macmahons, 196 
 
 Magrath, Dr, Provost of Queen's, 171 
 Malvern College, 150 
 Manby, uxor to, 28 
 
 Manchester, Union Bank of, 145 
 
 Manning, Cardinal, 77 
 
 Mansfield Estate, 105 
 
 Manwaring, Sir R. , 10 
 
 Markham, 68 
 
 Markham of Alberton, Anne, 36 
 
 Markham of Allerton, Sir T., 71, 87 
 
 Markham of Notts, 41 
 
 Marfen, 30 
 
 Marlborough, Duke of, 134 
 
 Marsey of Berwood, Mary, 35 
 
 Marsh, Sarah, 43 
 
 Marriner, Captain, 18 
 
 Marriott, Rev. Dr, of Horsmonden, 
 60 
 
 Martin, Lord Mayor, Sir R., 19, 42 
 
 Martin, J. , 43 
 
 Maryon Wilson, Sir S., Bart., 192 
 
 Mascall, Thomas, 37 
 
 Masters, George, of Gamer, 59 
 
 Matthewes of Radnor, 37 
 
 Maunsell of Plassy, Major, 192 
 
 Maxwell of Finnabrogue, 188 
 
 Maydwell, Colonel, 64 
 
 Mayne, Rev. C. 0., 81 
 
 Meadows -White, Judge, 107 
 
 Meadows -White, Alice, n6e Smith, 107 
 
 Meller of Came, 12 
 
 Mellington, John Smith De, 3 
 
 Melville, Hon. Alexander L. , 80 
 
 Melville, Lady Lucy, 80 
 
 Melville, Lady Mary A. , 79 
 
 " Meninensis Cancellarius," 37 
 
 Merrow, 40 
 
 Meux, Sir H., Bart., 15 
 
 Middlesex Visitation, 1663, 28 
 
 Milward, Anne, 14 
 
 Minshall,, W., 11 
 
 Mitcham, 39 ; also Mycham 
 
 Monck, Lady Emily, *186 
 
 Monke of Powderidge, Sir T., 12 
 
 Montague of Sarum, William, 41, 55 
 
 Montrose, Duke of, 179 
 
 Montrose, Grisel, daughter of Mar- 
 quess of, 177 
 
 Montrose, first Marquess, 106 
 
 Moore, Hon. C. W., 188 
 
 Moore, Rev. Minor Canon, 64 
 
 Morant's "Essex," 132 
 
 Mordaunt, George, 10 
 
 Moreton of Ashley, John, 41 
 
 Moreton of Ashby Folville, 68, 87 
 
 Morton, Cardinal, 87 
 
 Morton, Lady, 169 
 
 Morgan of Llanterner, 37 
 
 Morley, William, 29 
 
 Morris, 40 
 
 Morrall of Downside, Rev. Father, 
 O.S.B., 90 
 
 Morvill, 36 
 
 Morys, John, 7 
 
 Mosley, Sir John, 80 
 
 Mosley, Rev. R., 80
 
 PRINCIPAL NAMES AND PLACES 275 
 
 Motham, Thomas, 30 
 Mountcashell, third Earl, 187 
 Mountacute, Catherin, 13 
 Muttleberie, 55 
 Muttleberrie, Alice, 12 
 Mynors of Balshall, John, 32 
 
 NEAVE, Sir Arundel, Bart., 187 
 
 Neave, Sir T. L., Bart., 187 
 
 Nedginge, 31 
 
 Nevell, Thomas, 13 
 
 Nevile of Holte, Sir T., 14, 87 
 
 Nevile, Sir N., 86 
 
 Neville of Billingbeare, Sir H. , 25 
 
 Newark, 44 
 
 Newman's "Apologia," 150 
 
 Newman, Sir R., 81 
 
 Newsam, Thomas, 10 
 
 Newton, 11 
 
 Newton, Sir Isaac, 142 
 
 Newton, Elizabeth, 85 
 
 Nicholls, Leicestershire, 69 
 
 Nicholson of Cawood, 44 
 
 Noble's " History of Cromwell," 45 
 
 Non-juror Smiths, pedigree of, 101 
 
 Norborne, 29 
 
 Norfolk Visitation, 1612, 31 
 
 Northampton, Charles, Marquess of, 
 
 17 
 
 Northants Visitation, 1616, 35 
 Norwich, Earl of, Earl Marshall, 153 
 Notts Visitations, 1569, 1614, 36 
 Nugent, Thomas, 184 
 
 " OBITUARY " OF RICHARD SMITH, 113 
 O'Donnells, Princes of Tyrconnell, 
 
 196 
 
 Offley of Maresley, 40, 45 
 Ogle, W. M., M.P., 186 
 Oldhaugh, John of, 11 
 "Old Morality," 143 
 Olier, M., refugee, 142 
 Orlebar family, 122 
 Ormerod, pedigree of Cuerdley Smiths, 
 
 115 
 
 Osborne, Mary, 21 
 Ostenhanger, 25, 30 
 Oteley, John, 28 
 Otwell of Shawcross, 11 
 Overdinsdale Hall, 149 
 Owen, Judge Thomas, 25 
 Owen, Sergeant, 30 
 Owlde Buckenham, 32 
 Oxford Visitation, 36 
 Oxwick, 45 
 
 PAGE OF ALPRAM, 11 
 
 Page, John, 31 
 
 Painters, William, George, and John 
 
 Smith, 138 
 
 Palgrave, Sir John, 45 
 Palmer, Archdale, 29 
 Panfote, John, 76 
 
 Pannefort, 76 
 
 Parish Church, Leeds, 129 
 
 Parkyns, Sir Thomas, 75 
 
 Parratt, Thomas, 10 
 
 Parry, Dame, 22 
 
 Parry, Richard, 22 
 
 Paske, John, 32 
 
 Pate, Sir J., 88 
 
 Paulet, Sir., 87 
 
 Pauncefote, Baron, 76 
 
 Pauncefote of Carrswells, 75 
 
 Payne, Peter, of Rowdham, 33 
 
 Peake, Sir W., 13 
 
 Pechell, Augustus, 54 
 
 Peede of Berry Richard, 31 
 
 Pelham, Lady Susan, 79 
 
 Pelsham, Robert, 28 
 
 Peperharow, 38 
 
 Percival of Kingsale, 49 
 
 Percy, Chief-Justice, Sir John, 183 
 
 Peter the Great, 165 
 
 Pigott of Chetwyn, Robert, 36 
 
 Pitt of Colkirk, John, 45 
 
 Pitt of Trimley, Thomas, 14 
 
 Pitt, William, 77 
 
 Pleasaunce, daughter of Reeve, 43 
 
 Plumptre of Notts, Anne, 21 
 
 Plumtree, Notts, 89 
 
 Pontoise, 88 
 
 Poole of Belsham, Robert, 14 
 
 Poole, Sir Henry, 35 
 
 Popham, Admiral, 76 
 
 Portrait of Patrick Smith by Gains- 
 borough, 194 
 
 Potterspury, 35 
 
 Powis, Marquis of, 88 
 
 Powtrell, M., 89 
 
 Powys of Henley, Salop, 21 
 
 Powys of Shrewsbury Abbey, 73 
 
 Powys of Sutton, 21 
 
 Prescot, Lane., 36 
 
 Prestof York, E., 44 
 
 Preston Court, 76 
 
 Prickett, G., 119 
 
 Prince-Smith, John, law reporter, 208 
 
 Prince - Smith, John, junior, econ- 
 omist, 208 
 
 Pryce of Godmanchester, Jasper, 33 
 
 Pudsey of Barforth, Mary, 43 
 
 Pugin, Welby, 193 
 
 Purcell, Dr, Poor Law Commissioner, 
 192 
 
 Purcell, Henry F., 193 
 
 Purcell, Sir John Samuel, K.C.B., 193 
 
 RAGLAN, LORD, 187 
 
 Randall, Archdeacon, 59 
 
 Ransom, Griffin, 17 
 
 Ray of Tannington, 49 
 
 Raymond Horton-Smith Prize at 
 
 Cambridge, 107 
 Reade, Sir Thomas, 49 
 " Record of the Redes," 95
 
 276 
 
 INDEX OF 
 
 Rede, Leonard, of Boarstal, 67 
 
 Reeve, Robert, of Lowestoft, 43 
 
 Reid, " Life of Sydney Smith," 140 
 
 Rhodes of Hucknell Torkard, 89 
 
 Rich, Lady Isabella, 26 
 
 Richard I., 71 
 
 Ridley, Sir M. W., Bart., 81 
 
 Rivenhall, 34, 41 
 
 Robartes, Lord, 79 
 
 Robarts, Abraham W., 189 
 
 Roberts, Lord, 194 
 
 Robinson, John, 29 
 
 Robinson of London, Richard, 38 
 
 Rochdale, 30 
 
 Rochfort, Hon. R., 184 
 
 Rodney, Sir George, 37 
 
 Rogers, Sir Francis, 37 
 
 Rolfe, Jonas, 45 
 
 Rolleston, Colonel, 75 
 
 Romney, Sir W., 16 
 
 Roose, Sir Robert, 13, 41 
 
 Rosebery, Earl, 82 
 
 Rosedale Abbey, 183 
 
 Rosse, uxor to, 28 
 
 Rotherham, G., 22 
 
 Roxburgh, fourth Duke of, 61 
 
 Royal Descent of Devon Smiths, 55 
 
 Royal Descent of Elkington, 52 
 
 Royal Descent of the Smythes, 94, 95 
 
 Royds, 50 
 
 Russell of Bythell, 21 
 
 Ryder, Rev. G. D., 77 
 
 Ryther, Rector of, 44 
 
 SACKVILLE, LADY, 150 
 Sager, Nicholas, 44 
 Salesberry, Earl of, 13 
 Salisbury, Earl of, 55 
 Salop Visitation, 1623, 36 
 Sandford of Bakewell, John, 36 
 Sandford, Francis, Rouge Dragon, 153 
 Sargent of Lavington, 77 
 Sarsfield, General of Jacobites, 195 
 Saumarez-Smith, Bishop, 81 
 Saunders of Longmarston, 35 
 Sawyer of Heywood, 73 
 Saye and Sele, George W., Lord, 172 
 Sayer, Rev. Dr, 135 
 Scarborough, Earls of, 106 
 Scattergood of Leeds, Bernard P., 165 
 Schorne, Richard Smith of, 4 
 Scott, Hibernicus, 188 
 Scottish Pedigrees, Chapter VIII., 176 
 Scott of Scots Hall, John, 25 
 Scott-Smith, Percy, 188 
 Selkirk, Lord, 194 
 Selsdon, 80 
 Sept O'Gowan, 198 
 Sergeant of the Carriages, 40 
 Sergeant, Rev. J., 49 
 Serocold, Rev. E. S. P., 80 
 Seymer, Edward, Duke of Somersett, 
 13 
 
 Seymour, Queen Jane, 87 
 
 Seymour, Rev. R., 18 
 
 Shadwell, Vice-Chancellor, 73 
 
 Shalcross, Leonard, 11 
 
 Shelley, E. , of Avington, 188 
 
 Sherburn Hospital, Master of, 150 
 
 Shuldham, 43 
 
 Sidley of Morley, Martin, 32 
 
 Sidney, Lady Barbara, 26 
 
 Simms, Alderman, 27 
 
 Skerne, Widow, 37 
 
 Skyll, John, 34 
 
 Sluys, Battle of, 86 
 
 Smith, however spelt 
 
 Aaron, 204 
 
 Abel, 79 
 
 Abraham, 65 
 
 Adam, 36 
 
 Albert, Sir, 213 
 
 Albert, 253 
 
 Alithea, 35 
 
 Alexander, 234, 254 
 
 Ambrose, 27, 31 
 
 Andrew, Sir, M.D., 259 
 
 Anker, 215 
 
 Aquila, 252 
 
 A. L., Sir, 214 
 
 Archibald, 261 
 
 Archdeacon, 183, 195, 196 
 
 Arthur M., 54 
 
 Augustus, 66, 210 
 
 Augusta, 17, 18 
 
 Awdry, 32 
 
 Aysgough, 44 
 
 Barbara, 26 
 
 Barnaby, 142 
 
 Belinda, 17 
 
 Benjamin, 218 
 
 Bernard, 241 
 
 Caledon, 61 
 
 Carington, als., 89 
 
 Challoner, J., 219 
 
 Chancellor, 196 
 
 Clement, 167 
 
 Charles, Sir, 17, 18, 58, 59, 88, 
 119,214,221 
 
 Charles Felix, Sir, 221 
 
 Charles, H., 223 
 
 Charles, Rev., 73 
 
 Charles, 52, 58, 137, 138, 145, 
 162, 167, 206, 215, 216, 223, 
 246, 251, 252 
 
 Charlotte, 248 
 
 Christopher, Sir, 109 
 
 Christopher, 22, 30, 38, 40, 48, 
 50, 113 
 
 Clement, Sir, 13, 31, 34, 41, 87 
 
 Colvin, 218 
 
 Con way, 16 
 
 Culling, Sir, 175 
 
 Cusac, als. , 182 
 
 Dorrien, als., 70 
 
 Dodsworth Barts., als., 119
 
 PRINCIPAL NAMES AND PLACES 277 
 
 Smith, however spelt 
 Dramatist, 244 
 Drummond, Sir, 17, 58 
 D.A., Sir, 214 
 Eardley, als., 172 
 Edmund, 59, 245 
 Edmund, Colonel, 50 
 E. F. N., Rev., 61 
 E. A., Miss, 95 
 Edward, 168, 262 
 Edward, Bishop of Down, 241 
 Edward, G., M.P., 107 
 Edward, 0., 193 
 Edward, Sir, 15 
 Edwin T., Sir, 214 
 Elizabeth, 241 
 Emmeline, 135 
 E. Selby, Sir, 227 
 Endymion, 26 
 Erasmus, 27, 31, 35, 212 
 Esther, 43 
 Eva, 16 
 
 Father, organ-builder, 243 
 Ferdinando, D. L., 114 
 Felicia, 24 
 
 Francis, Sir, 213, 214, 262 
 Frances, 5, 71, 107, 143 
 Frederick, 137 
 Gamekeepers, 166 
 George, Sir, 5, 16, 22, 49, 51, 55, 
 
 60, 75, 158 
 George, 58, 63, 80, 133, 158, 181, 
 
 191,216,235,238,240,257 
 George A., 161 
 George, Bishop, 240 
 George T., 248 
 Gerard, 260 
 
 Gertrude, Lady Dinorben, 187 
 Gervase, 19 
 Goldwin, 242 
 Gordon, als., 112 
 Grace, 56 
 Grisegond, 19 
 Harriett, 43, 64 
 Harris, 171, 242 
 Harry, Sir, 64, 225 
 Helena, 37 
 
 Henry, 166, 187, 229, 255 
 Henry Ecroyd, 123 
 Henry Watton, 142 
 H. J. S., 240 
 Henry Lilley, M.D., 173, 262, 
 
 263 
 
 Hester, 13 
 Horace, 249 
 Horton-Smith, als., 106 
 Hugh, Sir, 37 
 Hugh, 87, 257, 258 
 Hugo, 5, 100 
 
 Humphrey, 5, 152, 153, 256 
 Irton, Rev., 159 
 Jacob, 37 
 James, 74, 230, 233, 250, 260 
 
 Smith, however spelt 
 
 James, Sir, 56 
 
 James G., 5 
 
 Jeremiah, 236 
 
 Jeremiah, Sir, 229 
 
 Jeremias, 24 
 
 John, Sir, 14, 15, 17, 19, 25, 26, 
 30, 34, 40, 41, 60, 87, 170, 187, 
 192, 203, 215, 216, 258 
 
 John J., Sir, 60, 168, 204, 210, 
 217, 218, 219, 221, 224, 229, 
 230, 231, 236, 238, 241, 245, 
 248, 256, 257, 259 
 
 John, 2, 3, 5, 6, 60, 71, 81, 107, 
 131 
 
 John of Kenchester, 163 
 
 John Bosworth, 60 
 
 John Bouchier, 171 
 
 John Hasley, 157 
 
 John Stafford, 249 
 
 John W. of Thinghill, 163 
 
 John Lucie, Sir, 213 
 
 John Le Smythe, 53 
 
 Joseph, 137, 234, 246 
 
 John Abel, M. P., 72, 209 
 
 John William, 163 
 
 Joshua, 58 
 
 Joshua Toulmin, 117, 211 
 
 Josiah, 211 
 
 Joyce, 35 
 
 Kenelm, Rev. H., 162 
 
 Laura, 33 
 
 Laurence, 4 
 
 Leonard, 29, 34, 87 
 
 Leticia, 24 
 
 Lidderdale, Canon, 63 
 
 Lilley-Smith, M.D., 262 
 
 Lionel, Sir, 223 
 
 Lumley-Smith, als., 106 
 
 Mabilla, 24 
 
 Magdalen, 22, 28, 31 
 
 Margery, 19, 22, 33, 34 
 
 Mariam, 19 
 
 Mrs Mary Esther, 131 
 
 Smith-Marriott, als., 60 
 
 Martin, 30 
 
 Martin Tucker, 81 
 
 Master of Pembroke, 241 
 
 Mathew, 205 
 
 Maud, 21 
 
 Methven, of, 176, 177 
 
 Michael, 25, 224 
 
 Milecencia, 41 
 
 Miles, 231, 232 
 
 Milo, 19 
 
 Montagu, Sir E., 210 
 
 Montem, 248 
 
 Mylecent, 34 
 
 Nathaniel, M.P., 63 
 
 Nicholas, Sir, 54, 56 
 
 Nicholas, 49 
 
 Oswald, 29 
 
 Patrick, 194
 
 278 
 
 INDEX OF 
 
 Smith, however spelt 
 Paulus, 42 
 Percy, Sir, 187 
 Pleasaunce, 43, 248 
 Priscilla, 40 
 
 Provost of Queen's, 170, 171 
 Prudence, 21, 37 
 Ralph, 56 
 Randoll, 11 
 Randulfe, Sir, 28, 30 
 Of Rathcoursey, 187 
 Reginald Bosworth, 61 
 Richard, 3, 188, 226, 228, 243, 
 
 252, 253 
 
 Richard, Sir, 26, 30 
 Robert, 1st Lord Carrington, 211 
 Robert, 48, 51, 53, 57, 58, 185, 
 
 234, 253, 260 
 Robert V., 140 
 Robert Percy, 208 
 Robert, Sir, 13, 16 
 Roger, Sir, 5, 14 
 Rose, 36 
 Rose, Hon., 56 
 Rowland, 22, 49 
 Samuel, 73, 79, 191, 193, 194, 
 
 230, 255 
 Samuel, C., 21 8 
 Se-Baptist, the, 229 
 Silvanus, 19, 42 
 Sir Sebastian, 113 
 Simon, 5, 15, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 37 
 Spencer, 17, 58 
 Stephen, 14, 256 
 Sydney, 250 
 Sydney J., 133 
 Sybil, 21 
 Theodosia, 45 
 Theyre, T., 241 
 Thomazin, 29 
 T., Rev., Fellow of Magdalen, 
 
 191 
 Thomas, Sir, 4, 11, 14, 15, 19, 
 
 25, 26, 30, 196, 201, 202, 203 
 Thomas, 3, 5, 72, 170, 216, 219, 
 
 220, 221, 231, 232, 259 
 Trafford, Sir, 16 
 Urith, 45 
 Veronica, 11 
 
 Villiers, Major, of Aspley, 121 
 Wakefield, cds., 43 
 Walter, Sir, 6 
 Wellstood, &, 181 
 William, Sir, 5, 13, 15, 27, 62, 
 
 238 
 W. H., Right Hon., M.P., 212, 
 
 214 
 William, 3, 7, 48, 49, 52, 54, 62, 
 
 139, 143, 183, 185, 186, 206, 
 
 207, 217, 218, 227, 235, 242, 
 
 243, 244, 245, 247, 253, 256, 
 
 258 
 William Tyler, M.D., 261 
 
 Smith, however spelt 
 Willoughby, 261 
 Wilmot, 11 
 W. Robertson, 239 
 W. Sidney, Sir, 222 
 Somerset, Lord Granville, 77, 79 
 Somerset Visitation, 1623, 37 
 Somerville, Admiral Lord, 184 
 Sparrow of Lavenham, Sam, 45 
 Stafford, Kath., 26 
 Staffs Visitation, 1583, 1614, 1663, 3 
 St Aldate's, Oxford, 36 
 Stallard of Worcester, 89 
 Standard, Alice, 151 
 Stanford, 43 
 
 Stanhope, fourth Earl, 77 
 Stanydge or Standish, 70 
 Stapleton, Hon. Mrs Bryan, 152 
 Staunton-on-Arrow, 163 
 Stavely of York, 44 
 St Dunstan's, West, 153 
 Steele, Sir Richard, 182 
 " Stemmata Ferraria," 83 
 Stephens, Anne, 21 
 Stevens of Horsley, 40 
 Stewart, Lord John, 71 
 St Frideswide Convent, 86 
 St Mary's, Nottingham, Registers of, 
 
 105 
 
 Stoaks, Sarah, 105 
 Stoke, Prior, 29, 42 
 St Osyth's Abbey, 86 
 Stowe, William, Archdeacon of, 36 
 St Peter's; Nottingham, Rector of, 155 
 Strange, Lord, 100 
 Strangford, Viscount, 26 
 Strathallan, Margaret, Viscountess, 
 
 177 
 
 Strathmore, Earl, 80 
 Streatfield, H. D., 80 
 Stretton-super-Street, 6 
 Stroud of Clewer, 89 
 Strutt, Sir Denver, 132 
 St Toll's, or St Aldate's, Register, 169 
 Studley, Warw., 71 
 Sudbury, 14 
 
 Suffolk, James, Earl of, 153 
 Suffolk Visitation, 1561, 1577, 1612, 
 
 38 
 
 Supple, W. F., 186 
 Surrey Visitation, 1623, 38 
 Surtees, M., 107 
 Sutton, Chancellor, 19 
 Sutton, W., 11 
 Syday of Lenham, Mary, 39 
 Sydney, Lady Dorothy, 26 
 Sykes, Sir Francis, 17 
 Sylvester, Priscilla, 119 
 Symon de Chart, 24 
 Synot, SirW., 184 
 
 TANKEBVILLE, Earls of, 132 
 Tavernor, 38
 
 PRINCIPAL NAMES AND PLACES 279 
 
 Taylor, Hard wick, 44 
 
 Taylor, Stephen, 32 
 
 Telfe of Penhill, 17 
 
 Tennison, Chancellor and Arch- 
 bishop, 72 
 
 Tenterden, Charles, first Lord, 187 
 
 Tetley, J., Esq., of Kilgram, 119 
 
 Tipping, Mary, 89 
 
 Titheby Parish, 105 
 
 " The Veteran," 194 
 
 Thompson of Weatherby, Robert, 29 
 
 Thornton, Claude, 79 
 
 Throckmorton, Sir George, 19 
 
 Throckmorton, Robert, 41 
 
 Toffte of Little Baddow, Henry, 34, 
 41 
 
 Throgmorton, Sir George, 42 
 
 Thwaites, Audrey, 32 
 
 Toft, W., of Little Baddow, 87 
 
 Torre of Sydal, James, 44 
 
 Toulmin, Dr, descendant of a Dutch 
 Refugee, 117 
 
 Tracie, Samwell, 19, 42 
 
 Trafford, Jane, 13 
 
 Tremayne, Roger, 11 
 
 Trenchards, the family of, 56 
 
 Trewynt in Blysland, 11 
 
 Tucker, General, 81 
 
 Turner, Thomas, of Creasing, 14 
 
 Turville, H., 88 
 
 Tusser, William, 34 
 
 " Twelve Indian Statesmen," 181 
 
 Tyberton, William Smith of, 3, 4 
 
 Tyll, R.,31 
 
 Tynte, Sir H., M.P., 187 
 
 Tyser, Dr, 76 
 
 UPPER OSSORY, Earl of, 140 
 Ushaw College, 93 
 Usthwait, William, 28 
 
 VALENTIA, Viscount, 15 
 
 Vansittart, A., 80 
 
 Vere of Ketton, 31 
 
 Verney, Sir E., 71 
 
 Vernon of Hartington, Thomas, 36 
 
 Vernon of Hilton, Richard, 141 
 
 Vernon-Smith, R., Lord Lyveden, 
 
 politician, 209 
 Vesey, Right Rev. Dr, Archbishop 
 
 of Tuam, 183 
 Victoria, Queen, 78 
 Villiers-Downes, Major, 122 
 Viell, William, 12 
 
 WADE, Marshal, 194 
 Wake, Henry, 22 
 Wake, Sir Thomas, 86 
 Wakefield, als. Smith, 43 
 Wakelyn of Whittlesey, 64 
 Waldy, Mrs, 150 
 Walford in Leintwardine, 159 
 Walker, J., of Brentwood, 133 
 
 Walker or Waller of Fawkham, 25 
 
 Walker, James, 12 
 
 Walker of Lincoln, Henry, 44 
 
 Walkeringham, 36 
 
 Wall Sutton, in Mershland, 32 
 
 Walmesly, Chief-Justice, 16, 89 
 
 Walmsley, Judith, 13 
 
 Walsam in the Willows, 32, 40 
 
 Walsh, Anthony, 185 
 
 Walsh of Hereford, 42 
 
 Waltham, Line., 22 
 
 Walwyn, John, 21 
 
 Wansley, Nicholas, 29 
 
 Ward, James, antiquarian, 155 
 
 Ward, John, trustee of the B. 
 
 Museum, 132 
 Ward, Hon. W., 114 
 Warden, F., 78 
 Ward-Hunt, Right Hon. G.W.,M.P., 
 
 etc., 143 
 
 Warren of Great Thurloe, 31 
 Warwick, Earl of, 25 
 Warwick Visitation, 1619, 41 
 Waterhouse of Berkhamstead, 22 
 Waterpark, Lord, 60 
 Watkin Wynne, Sir H., 77 
 Watton at Stone, 23 
 Watts, Sir J., Lord Mayor, 40 
 Way of Deverston, John, 33 
 Weare in Kenchester, 21 
 Weaver, Jane, 36 
 Welford, Anne, 21, 37 
 Welsh, Elizabeth, 21, 37 
 Wendover, Viscount, 78 
 Wenland, Thomas, 21 
 Wentworth, Lady, 122 
 Weobley, Thomas Smith of, 3 
 Worsop of Clapham, Rose, 39 
 West Country Smiths, Chapter IV., 
 
 53 
 
 Western, C., 43 
 Weyland of Woodeaton, Letitia, 
 
 daughter of, 15 
 Whalley-Smythe-Gardiners, Barts. , 
 
 113 
 
 Whatton, Sir J., 16 
 Whitfield, Major, 24 
 Whytehead, Rev. R., 119 
 Whytehead of Tytherley, 16 
 Wicklow, third Earl, 186 
 Widenham, Charles, 188 
 Widenham-Smyth, H. J., 188 
 Wigram, Sir E., 81 
 Wigram, Rev. Ernest, 81 
 Wilberforce, Bishop S., 77 
 Wilder of Purley, Rev. H. W., 18 
 Wilkenson, Hugh, 32 
 Wilkins of Cawood, 44 
 Wilkinson, Daniel, 24 
 Willabye, Robert, 28 
 Willerby, Joan, 48 
 Willes of Astrop, E., 81 
 William the Third, 194
 
 280 
 
 INDEX 
 
 Williams, Elizabeth, of Cardiff, 19 
 Willoughby d'Eresby, Lord, 78 
 Wilson, Alderman, 44 
 Wilson of Walton Tower, 75 
 Wilts Visitation, 41 
 Wincet, Hercules, 35 
 Windham (Bowyer), Anne, 15 
 Winter, Robert, 19, 42 
 Witham, 14 
 Withcote, 27, 35 
 Woburne, 10 
 Wood, Edward, 14 
 Wood, Elizabeth, 15 
 Wood of Salop, Abigail, 15 
 Wood, W., 44 
 Woodcock, Mrs, 115 
 Woodhall, Herts, 79 
 Woodhouse, Sir Thomas, of Kimber- 
 ley, 133 
 
 Woolavington, 16 
 Wootton Wawen, 68 
 Worcester Visitation, 1620, 42 
 Wordsworth, Anne, 43 
 Wordsworth, Mary, aunt of the poet, 
 
 160 
 
 Worge, Mary, 192 
 Worge, Lieutenant-Colonel, 194 
 Wren, Sir Christopher, 122 
 Wrenton, 38 
 
 Wrey of Totness, John, 11 
 Wright, Alderman, 29 
 Wyghton, 33 
 Wylde, Isaac, 44 
 
 YNYR SURGES, 17 
 
 York Visitation, 43 
 
 Yorkist, 1 
 
 Young, J., of Westridge, 119

 
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