Samuel George Smith (5 June 1822 – 6 July 1900)
was an English banker and
Conservative Party politician who sat in the
House of Commons
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from 1859 to 1880.
Smith was the grandson of
Samuel Smith Samuel Smith may refer to:
In politics
*Samuel Smith (Connecticut politician) (1646–1735), early settler of Norwalk, Connecticut and deputy of the General Assembly of the Colony of Connecticut in 1691
*Samuel Smith (1754–1834), British member ...
,
Member of Parliament (MP) for
Wendover
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from 1820 to 1832, and the son of Samuel George Smith (1789–1863) and his wife Eugenia Chatfield, daughter of the Rev. Robert Chatfield. He was educated at
Rugby School
Rugby School is a Public school (United Kingdom), private boarding school for pupils aged 13–18, located in the town of Rugby, Warwickshire in England.
Founded in 1567 as a free grammar school for local boys, it is one of the oldest independ ...
and at
Trinity College, Cambridge
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and became a partner in
Smith, Payne & Smiths, bankers of London.
He was a
J.P. for
Hertfordshire
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.
Samuel George Smith (père),
George Robert Smith, and
Oswald Augustus Smith Oswald may refer to:
People
*Oswald (given name), including a list of people with the name
*Oswald (surname), including a list of people with the name
Fictional characters
*Oswald the Reeve, who tells a tale in Geoffrey Chaucer's ''The Canterbur ...
, all members of that
Lombard Street banking house, were in 1836 among the earliest and heaviest investors in "town acres" of the newly surveyed city of
Adelaide
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, and country land in
South Australia
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.
At the
1859 general election Smith was elected as one of the two
MPs for
Aylesbury
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.
He held the seat until his defeat at the
1880 general election.
He was a general supporter of
Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British statesman, Conservative Party (UK), Conservative politician and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He played a ...
's policy.
Smith lived at Sacombe Park, Ware, Hertfordshire.
[ He died unmarried at the age of 78.
]
References
External links
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1822 births
1900 deaths
People educated at Rugby School
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
UK MPs 1859–1865
UK MPs 1865–1868
UK MPs 1868–1874
UK MPs 1874–1880
Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
People from Ware, Hertfordshire
Samuel
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