Jervoise_Smith

Jervoise Smith

Jervoise Smith

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Jervoise Smith (3 October 1828 – 21 July 1884)[1][2] was a British Liberal Party politician and banker.[3]

Quick Facts Member of Parliament for Penryn and Falmouth, Preceded by ...

Smith was the son of former Chichester MP John Abel Smith and Anne née Clarke-Jervoise.[2] He married Margaret Louisa Verney, daughter of Robert Verney in 1874, and they had issue.[4]

He was a partner in the banking firm Smith, Payne, and Smiths,[3] the first British bank believed to be formed outside London but later gaining a home on Lombard Street. In 1881, he worked at the bank with Samuel George Smith, Robert Smith, Oswald Augustus Smith, Eric Carrington Smith, and Martin Ridley Smith.[5]

Smith was elected a Liberal MP for Penryn and Falmouth at a by-election in 1866 but lost the seat at the next general election in 1868.[6]

References

  1. [1]
    Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "P" (part 1)
  2. [2]
    Debrett, John (1836). "English Peerage". In Courthope, William (ed.). Debrett's Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland. [Another] (21 ed.). p. 246. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
  3. [3]
    Wodehouse, John (1997). Hawkins, Angus; Powell, John (eds.). The Journal of John Wodehouse First Earl of Kimberley, 1862-1902. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 192. ISBN 9780521623285. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
  4. [4]
    "Willoughby de Broke, Baron (E, 1491)". Cracroft's Peerage. Heraldic Media Limited. Archived from the original on 14 May 2012. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
  5. [5]
    "Smith, Payne, and Smiths" (PDF). The London Gazette. 17 February 1881. p. 743. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
  6. [6]
    Craig, F. W. S., ed. (1977). British Parliamentary Election Results 1832–1885 (e-book) (1st ed.). London: Macmillan Press. ISBN 978-1-349-02349-3.
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