SMITH, Thomas (d.1728), of South Tidworth, Hants.

Family and Education

1st s. of John Smith. unm. suc. fa. 1723.

Offices Held

Clerk of the Council in extraordinary Mar. 1706–12;1Luttrell, vi. 27. vice-chamberlain to Queen Caroline 1727 – d.

Address

Main residence: South Tidworth, Hants.

biography text

Returned for Eye as a Whig in 1715 on the Cornwallis interest, Smith voted against the septennial bill and the repeal of the Occasional Conformity and Schism Acts but for the peerage bill. He did not stand in 1722 but was brought in for Tregony on the Treasury interest there at George II’s accession, when he obtained a court office. He died 3 Aug. 1728.

Author

E.C.

Volume

Commons 1715-1754

Notes

1. Luttrell, vi. 27.