Thomas Eustace Smith (1831–1903) was an English shipping magnate and
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Biography
He was elected at the
1868 general election as the
Member of Parliament
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(MP) for
Tynemouth and North Shields,
having stood unsuccessfully in
Dover
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at the
1865 general election. He was re-elected in Tynemouth and North Shields at the
1874
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and
1880 elections,
and retired from the
House of Commons
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when the constituency was abolished at the
1885 general election.
His father William Smith of
Benton was a
ropemaker
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.
Thomas Eustace Smith married Martha Mary Dalrymple, known as an
art patron, in 1855. They had six daughters and four sons. Through
Ashton Wentworth Dilke
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Life
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, who married the eldest daughter Maye (Margaret), Martha (known also as Ellen) came to meet his brother
Charles Dilke
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. The implications of the sex scandal involving Charles Dilke that later came to court (in the form of the divorce case between
Donald Crawford
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Life
He was born on 3 May 1837, the son of A ...
and his wife
Virginia
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, another of their daughters) later undermined the Smiths' social position, since there were broad hints of adultery between Ellen and Charles Dilke.
Roy Jenkins
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, ''Dilke: A Victorian Tragedy'' (1996), p. 112, p. 237.
References
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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, Smith
ée Dalrymple Martha Mary
ustacia(1835–1919), art patron by Timothy Wilcox. (Article on his wife.)
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1831 births
1903 deaths
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