The Smith, later Eardley Baronetcy, of Hadley in the County of Middlesex, was a title in the

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. It was created on 22 December 1802 for Culling Smith. He was the son of Thomas Smith, a

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merchant. The second Baronet married the Honourable Charlotte Elizabeth, daughter of

Sampson Eardley, 1st Baron Eardley Sampson Eardley, 1st Baron Eardley, Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (born Sampson Gideon; 10 October 1744 – 25 December 1824) was a British banker and Tories (British political party), Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons of the U ...

. Their son, the third Baronet, assumed by Royal licence the surname of Eardley in lieu of his patronymic in 1847. He was a Christian campaigner for religious freedom and for Protestant causes. The title became extinct at the death of his son, the fourth Baronet, in 1875. Mariah Charlotte Smith, daughter of the second Baronet, married Reverend Eardley Childers Walbanke-Childers and was the mother of politician

Hugh Childers Hugh Culling Eardley Childers (25 June 1827 – 29 January 1896) was a British Liberal statesman of the nineteenth century. He is perhaps best known for his reform efforts at the Admiralty and the War Office. Later in his career, as Chancel ...

Smith, later Eardley baronets, of Hadley (1802)

*Sir Culling Smith, 1st Baronet (1731–1812) *Sir Culling Smith, 2nd Baronet (1768–1829) * Sir Culling Eardley Eardley, 3rd Baronet (1805–1863) *Sir Eardley Gideon Culling Eardley, 4th Baronet (1838–1875)

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