Sir Skeffington Edward Smyth, 1st Baronet (May 1745 – 9 September 1797) was an

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politician and baronet.

Biography

Smyth was born in Tinny Park, Wicklow,

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, the son of James Smyth, a Member of Parliament of Ireland for the borough of Antrim, and Mary Agar. Smyth was the grandson of Anglican

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, Rev. Dr. Edward Smyth and Mary Skeffington. On 5 August 1776, Smyth was created a

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, of Tinny Park in the

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. In 1779 he was elected to the

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as the MP for

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, serving until 1783. He then represented

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from 1783 until 1790, and Galway Borough from 1790 until his death in 1797. In 1785 he was made a member of the

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. Skeffington Smyth married Margaret Daly and they had a daughter Maria Elizabeth Smyth who married

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, who was also MP for Galway Borough. Smyth died aged 52 in

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on 9 September 1797. As he had no son, his baronetcy became extinct on his death.

References

1745 births 1797 deaths 18th-century Anglo-Irish people Baronets in the Baronetage of Ireland Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Longford constituencies Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Westmeath constituencies Members of the Privy Council of Ireland People from County Wicklow {{Ireland-pre1801-MP-stub