The Smith, later Hamilton-Spencer-Smith, later Spencer-Smith Baronetcy, of Tring Park in the County of Hertford, is a title in the
Baronetage of the United Kingdom
Baronets are hereditary titles awarded by the Crown. The current baronetage of the United Kingdom has replaced the earlier, existing baronetages of England, Nova Scotia, Ireland and Great Britain.
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. It was created on 11 June 1804 for Drummond Smith, with remainder to the heirs male of his niece Augusta (daughter of his eldest brother
Joshua Smith, of
Stoke Park,
Wiltshire
Wiltshire (; abbreviated to Wilts) is a ceremonial county in South West England. It borders Gloucestershire to the north, Oxfordshire to the north-east, Berkshire to the east, Hampshire to the south-east, Dorset to the south, and Somerset to ...
), wife of
Charles Smith, MP, of Suttons,
Essex
Essex ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East of England, and one of the home counties. It is bordered by Cambridgeshire and Suffolk to the north, the North Sea to the east, Kent across the Thames Estuary to the ...
. The latter was a descendant of Robert Smith, of Ilminster, from whom the
Smith-Marriott baronets
The Smith, later Smith-Marriott Baronetcy, of Sydling St Nicholas in the County of Dorset, is a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 1 June 1774 for Sir John Smith, 1st Baronet, John Smith, High Sheriff of Dorset in 1772. T ...
are also descended. The fifth Baronet (whose father Reverend Spencer Compton Hamilton-Spencer-Smith had assumed the additional surnames of Hamilton and Spencer in 1872, having married Mary, daughter of Admiral Cospatric Baillie-Hamilton, a descendant of
Thomas Hamilton, 6th Earl of Haddington
Thomas Hamilton, 6th Earl of Haddington, KT, FRCPE ( baptised 5 September 1680 – 29 November 1735) was a Scottish politician and nobleman.
Life
The son of Charles Hamilton, 5th Earl of Haddington and Margaret Leslie, 8th Countess of Rothes, ...
), was a member of the Military Inter-Allied Commission of Control from 1920 to 1924. The sixth Baronet discontinued the use of the surname of Hamilton.
Tring Park
Tring Park is a public open space in Tring, owned by Dacorum Borough Council and managed by the Woodland Trust. It is part of the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Half of the is undulating grassland, grazed by cattle. Part of the ...
was acquired by the first Baronet in 1786. It was sold in 1823.
Smith, later Hamilton-Spencer-Smith, later Spencer-Smith baronets, of Tring Park (1804)
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Sir Drummond Smith, 1st Baronet (1740–1816)
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Sir Charles Joshua Smith, 2nd Baronet (1800–1831)
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Sir Charles Cunliffe Smith, 3rd Baronet (1827–1905)
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Sir Drummond Cunliffe Smith, 4th Baronet (1861–1947)
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Sir Drummond Cospatric Hamilton-Spencer-Smith, 5th Baronet (1876–1955)
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Sir Thomas Cospatric Hamilton Spencer-Smith, 6th Baronet (1917–1959)
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Sir John Hamilton Spencer-Smith, 7th Baronet (born 1947)
The
heir presumptive
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to the baronetcy is Michael Philip Hamilton-Spencer-Smith (born 1952).
Notes
External links
History of Tring Parkat hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk
''Two Teens in the Time of Austen'' a research blog based on letters and diaries of the wife and sister of Sir Charles Joshua Smith, the 2nd baronet
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People from Tring
Spencer-Smith
Baronetcies created with special remainders