Eric Martin Smith (28 December 1908 – 13 August 1951) was a British Conservative Party politician. He was a noted amateur golfer, winning the Amateur Championship in 1931 and representing England against Scotland and Ireland the same year. Smith was the son of Everard Martin Smith and Violet, the daughter of

Everard Hambro Sir Everard Alexander Hambro (11 April 1842 – 26 February 1925) was a British banker and philanthropist. Early life Everard Hambro was born 11 April 1842 in Willesden, London. Charles Mosley (ed.), ''Burke's Peerage and Baronetage'', Crans, ...

. He was educated at Eton College and Cambridge University. At the 1950 general election, he was returned as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Grantham constituency in Lincolnshire. He replaced the independent MP,

Denis Kendall William Denis Kendall, (27 May 1903 – 19 July 1995), was an engineer, businessman, and politician. During World War II he was Managing Director of the armaments firm British Manufacture and Research Co (BMARC), and from 1942-1950, he was the ...

, who had been first elected in a war-time by-election, but came third in 1950. Smith died in August 1951, aged 42, of a heart attack, at his home in

Hitchin Hitchin () is a market town and unparished area in the North Hertfordshire Districts of England, district in Hertfordshire, England, with an estimated population of 35,842. History Hitchin is first noted as the central place of the Hicce peopl ...

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. His death did not trigger a by-election. The seat remained vacant until the 1951 general election, on 25 October.

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* 1908 births 1951 deaths People educated at Eton College Alumni of the University of Cambridge Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1950–1951 Politics of Grantham English male golfers Amateur golfers {{England-Conservative-UK-MP-1900s-stub