Constituency Dates
Thirsk 6 May 1709 – 1710
Northallerton 1713 – 1734, 1733 – 30 May 1740
Family and Education
b. c. 1683, 1st s. of Leonard Smelt of Kirkby Fleetham by Grace, da. of Sir William Frankland, 1st Bt. M.P., of Thorkleby, Yorks.; bro. of William Smelt. educ. Jesus, Camb. 1700. m. Elizabeth Whitaker,1PCC 184 Browne. s.p. suc. fa. 1710.
Offices Held

Commr. for stating army debts 1715 – 22; clerk of deliveries in the Ordnance 1722 – 33; clerk of the Ordnance 1733 – d.

Address
Main residence: Kirkby Fleetham, nr. Northallerton, Yorks.
biography text

Returned for Thirsk on the interest of the Franklands in 1709, Smelt sat from 1713 for Northallerton, voting with the Government except on Lord Cadogan in 1717 and on the peerage bill in 1719. In 1721 he applied to Lord Sunderland for a vacant place in the victualling office, writing:

I have the misfortune to be very little personally known to your Lordship, but I flatter myself that my behaviour in Parliament (where I have sat many years and have interest enough to sit there as long as I live) has been in no respect undeserving of his Majesty’s favour and of your Lordship’s patronage.228 June 1721, Sunderland (Blenheim) mss.

Given a post in the Ordnance, he died 30 May 1740.

Author
R.R.S.
Volume
Commons 1715-1754
Notes
  • 1. PCC 184 Browne.
  • 2. 28 June 1721, Sunderland (Blenheim) mss.