Abel_Smith_(1788–1859)

Abel Smith (1788–1859)

Abel Smith (1788–1859)

British politician (1788–1859)

For other people named Abel Smith, see Abel Smith (disambiguation).

Abel Smith (17 July 1788 – 23 February 1859) was a longtime British Member of Parliament.

Arms of Smith: Or, a chevron cotised sable between three demi-griffins couped of the last the two in chief respecting each other[1]

He was the eighth child but eldest son of Samuel Smith, also a Member of Parliament, and Elizabeth Frances (née Turnor).[2]

He was nephew of Robert Smith, 1st Baron Carrington. The family had grown wealthy through banking in Nottingham.

Abel Smith entered Parliament in 1810 as member for Malmesbury, and subsequently also represented Wendover and Midhurst, both pocket boroughs controlled by his uncle Lord Carrington, sitting in the Commons for 20 of the last 22 years before the Great Reform Act. He and his father were Wendover's last MPs, as they sat together as its members for the last two years before the borough's abolition.[citation needed]

Three years after the Reform Act, he was elected for Hertfordshire, and served another twelve years as its MP. He was High Sheriff of Hertfordshire in 1849.[3]

Smith married Frances Anne Calvert, the daughter of General Sir Harry Calvert. Their son Abel Smith also became MP for Hertfordshire.[4]

Notes

  1. [1]
    Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p.223, Smith/Carington, Baron Carrington; p.145, Smith, Baron Bicester, both descendants of the banker Abel Smith II (1717–1788)
  2. [2]
    Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 3, ed. Charles Mosley,, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 3990
  3. [3]
    "No. 20944". The London Gazette. 13 February 1849. p. 431.
  4. [4]
    Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, vol. 3, ed. Charles Mosley,, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 3990

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