Smith Child (other)
Smith Child may refer to: * Smith Child (Royal Navy officer), Royal Navy admiral and grandfather of the 1st Baronet * Sir Smith Child, 1st Baronet (1808–1896), English politician, MP for Staffordshire North 1851–1859 and Staffordshire West 1868–1874 * Sir Smith Child, 2nd Baronet (1880–1958), MP for Stone 1918–1922 See also *Child (surname) Child is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Arthur Child (judge) (1852–1902), British judge at Trinidad and St Lucia * Arthur Child (1910–1996), Canadian businessman *Asa Child (1798–1858), American Attorney * Calvin G. Chil ...

Smith Child (Royal Navy Officer)
Admiral Smith Child (1730 – 1813) was an officer in the Royal Navy. He served in the Seven Years' War, the American Revolutionary War, and the French Revolutionary Wars, rising to the rank of admiral. He also established a pottery manufactory in Tunstall, Staffordshire. Biography Born into a well-to-do family from Audley, Staffordshire, Smith Child entered the Royal Navy in 1747 through a connection between his father (also named Smith Child) and First Lord of the Admiralty George Anson. Serving first aboard , he rose through the ranks, seeing service in the Seven Years' War supporting the Siege of Louisbourg in 1758 and the Siege of Pondicherry in 1760. In 1763 he established a pottery-manufactory in Tunstall, Staffordshire, and married Margaret Roylance of Newfield the following year, acquiring a significant estate from her family. They had two sons; one was lost at sea, and the other died two years before his father. By the American War of Independence he had be ...
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Sir Smith Child, 1st Baronet
Sir Smith Child, 1st Baronet (5 March 1808 – 27 March 1896) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was born at Newfield Hall, Tunstall, Staffordshire the son of John George Child and the grandson of Admiral Smith Child (1730–1813). In 1835 he married Sarah, daughter and heiress of Richard Clarke Hill of Stallington Hall, Stone, Staffordshire. They had issue, beside one daughter, two sons: :Smith Hill Child, born 25 August 1837, died 20 January 1867. He married Isabella Eleanor, daughter of Major Colin Campbell, of Jura, but left only one daughter. :John George Child, born 25 August 1847, died in 1895. He married in 1877 Helen, daughter of the Reverend George Mather, of Huntley Hall, Staffordshire, and had issue two daughters, and two sons: :: Smith Hill Child, who succeeded his own grandfather as 2nd Baronet. ::Roylance George Child, born 7 January 1882, died unmarried 12 September 1901. He was member of parliament (MP) for Staffordshire North fro ...
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Sir Smith Child, 2nd Baronet
Sir Smith Hill Child, 2nd Baronet, (19 September 1880 – 11 November 1958) was an officer in the British Army and a Conservative Party politician. Early life and education Hill Child was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford. He succeeded his grandfather, Sir Smith Child, 1st Baronet, as 2nd Baronet of Newfield Hall, near Tunstall, Staffordshire, in 1896.''Burkes''. Military career Hill Child was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion Royal Scots, a part-time Militia battalion, on 25 October 1899. The battalion was embodied for full-time service in the Second Boer War on 5 December that year, and in early March 1900 left Queenstown on the ''SS Oriental'' for South Africa. They landed at East London on 21 March 1900 and by July was engaged in operations against Boer Commandos in the Transvaal. Hill Child was wounded, and returned to the United Kingdom during Christmas 1900. He was promoted to lieutenant in the militia battalion on 6 March 1901, b ...
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