Philip Smythe, 2nd Viscount Strangford (23 March 1634 – 8 August 1708) was an English politician who sat in the

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in 1660. Smythe was the son of Thomas Smythe, 1st Viscount Strangford of

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and

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, Kent and his wife Lady Barbara Sidney, the daughter of

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.The Gentleman's magazine, Volume 100, Part 2
/ref> He inherited the title on the death of his father in 1635. In 1659, he was arrested at Canterbury, with his half-brother Thomas Colepeper, following the uprising, and was released on parole and bail for £5,000. In 1660, Smythe was elected Member of Parliament for

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in the Convention Parliament.Profile
HistoryofParliamentOnline.org. Accessed 2 January 2023.

Family

Smythe married firstly his cousin Isabella Sidney, daughter of

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. After her death in 1663, he married Mary, daughter of

George Porter George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham, (6 December 1920 – 31 August 2002) was a British chemist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967. Education and early life Porter was born in Stainforth, near Thorne, in the then West ...

. He was succeeded by his son, Endymion.

References

1634 births 1708 deaths English MPs 1660 People from Westenhanger Viscounts in the Peerage of Ireland People from Sturry {{1660-England-MP-stub