Lt. Col. Sir John Smith-Burges, 1st Baronet (c. 173424 April 1803)
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East India Company The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southea ...

in 1791.

Life

Smith-Burges was a director of the

. He was Lieutenant-Colonel in the service of the 3rd Regiment, East India Volunteers. He was the son of John Smith and Mary Ransom. Sir John married Margaret Burges, daughter of Ynyr Burges and Margaret Brown, on 14 May 1771. He was born John Smith and changed his name by Royal Licence on 10 June 1790 to John Smith-Burges. He was created 1st Baronet Smith-Burges, of Eastham, (in the county of

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) on 4 May 1793. Sir John had no male heir and so the title became extinct on his death.

References

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