Samuel Smith (14 April 1754 – 12 March 1834) was a British

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Member of Parliament and banker.

Biography

Samuel Smith the fourth son of Abel Smith, a wealthy

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banker and Member of Parliament. Four of his brothers were also Members of Parliament and one,

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, was raised to the peerage as Baron Carrington. A portion of the family wealth was devoted to buying control of two pocket boroughs, Wendover and

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, and Carrington kept the seats here almost exclusively for use by various members of the Smith family until his power was ended by the

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. Smith entered Parliament in 1788 as member for St Germans, and was an MP for the next 44 years, also representing

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(1790–1818),

(1818–1820) and Wendover (1820–1832). He and his son

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were Wendover's last MPs, as they sat together as its members for the last two years before the borough's abolition. In 1826, being the longest continually-serving MP, he became Father of the House. He did not return to Parliament after the 1832

, dying two years later. In 1801 Smith bought Woodhall Park in Hertfordshire, which still belongs to his descendants.

Family

Smith married Elizabeth Turnor on 2 December 1783. They had seven daughters and four sons. As well as his son Abel, his grandson Samuel George Smith was a Member of Parliament. Several of his children married into the family of the

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. The eldest son, Abel Smith, married Lady Marianne Leslie-Melville, youngest daughter of Alexander Leslie-Melville, 9th Earl of Leven, on 28 August 1822. The third son, Henry Smith, married Lady Lucy Leslie-Melville, eldest daughter of the 9th Earl of Leven, on 14 July 1824. The youngest daughter, Charlotte Smith, married the Hon. Alexander Leslie-Melville, fifth son of the 9th Earl of Leven, on 19 October 1825.Cracroft's Peerage
, Heraldic Media Ltd. In addition, his grandson Henry Abel Smith (1826–1890), son of Henry Smith and Lady Lucy Leslie-Melville, married his first cousin Elizabeth Mary Pym, daughter of Francis Pym and Lady Jane Elizabeth Leslie-Melville, second daughter of the 9th Earl of Leven, on 30 October 1849; they were the grandparents of Sir Henry Abel Smith who served as Governor of Queensland.

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