Sir Thomas Smith was an English politician who sat in the

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between 1640 and 1644. Smith was the son of Laurence Smith, of Hatherton, Cheshire and his wife Anne Mainwaring, daughter of Sir Randall Mainwaring of Over Peover.John Burke, John Bernard Burke ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies''
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on 21 July 1615.Knights of England
/ref> In 1622, he was mayor of the city of Chester and in 1623

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. Smith was an alderman of Chester and in April 1640, was elected Member of Parliament for City of Chester in the

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. He was re-elected MP for Chester for the

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in November 1640. Smith was disabled from sitting in parliament on 22 January 1644 for supporting the King. Smith married Mary Smith, daughter of Sir Hugh Smith, of

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, Somerset, and had twenty-two children. His son

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became a

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