Samuel George Smith (5 June 1822 – 6 July 1900) was an English banker and

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politician who sat in the

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from 1859 to 1880. Smith was the grandson of Samuel Smith,

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(MP) for

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from 1820 to 1832, and the son of Samuel George Smith (1789–1863) and his wife Eugenia Chatfield, daughter of the Rev. Robert Chatfield. He was educated at

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and at

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and became a partner in Smith, Payne & Smiths, bankers of London. He was a J.P. for

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. Samuel George Smith (père), George Robert Smith, and

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, all members of that Lombard Street banking house, were in 1836 among the earliest and heaviest investors in "town acres" of the newly surveyed city of

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, and country land in

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. At the 1859 general election Smith was elected as one of the two MPs for

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. He held the seat until his defeat at the 1880 general election. He was a general supporter of

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's policy. Smith lived at Sacombe Park, Ware, Hertfordshire. He died unmarried at the age of 78.

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* 1822 births 1900 deaths People educated at Rugby School Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge UK MPs 1859–1865 UK MPs 1865–1868 UK MPs 1868–1874 UK MPs 1874–1880 Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies People from Ware, Hertfordshire

Samuel Samuel ''Šəmūʾēl'', Tiberian: ''Šămūʾēl''; ar, شموئيل or صموئيل '; el, Σαμουήλ ''Samouḗl''; la, Samūēl is a figure who, in the narratives of the Hebrew Bible, plays a key role in the transition from the bibl ...

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