Constituency Dates
Taunton 30 Aug. 1715 – 1727
Family and Education
b. ?1681, s. of James Smith of Torrington, Devon. educ. Exeter, Oxf. 7 Apr. 1698, aged 16; I. Temple 1699.
Address
Main residences: Black Torrington, DevonPCC 47 Bolton.; Common Leigh, Som.
biography text

Returned on petition as a Whig, Smith voted with the Government in all recorded divisions, except on the peerage bill, which he opposed. Reelected after a contest in 1722, he did not stand again, dying perhaps in 1734.1Cal. Wills and Admons. in Court of Archdeacon of Taunton (Index Lib. xlva), 100.

Author
S.R.M.
Volume
Commons 1715-1754
Notes
  • 1. Cal. Wills and Admons. in Court of Archdeacon of Taunton (Index Lib. xlva), 100.