Samuel Smith (1754-1834)

Samuel Smith (14 April, 1754-12 March, 1834) was a British Member of Parliament.

He was the third son of Abel Smith, a wealthy Nottingham banker and Member of Parliament. Four of his brothers were also Members of Parliament and one, Robert, was raised to the peerage as Baron Carrington. A portion of the family wealth was devoted to buying control of two pocket boroughs, Wendover and Midhurst, and Carrington kept the seats here almost exclusively for use by various members of the Smith family until his power was ended by the Great Reform Act.

Smith entered Parliament in 1788 as member for St Germans , and was an MP for the next 44 years, also representing Leicester, Midhurst and Wendover. He and his son Abel were Wendover's last MPs, as they sat together as its members for the last two years before the borough's abolition. He did not return to Parliament after the Great Reform Act, dying two years later.

He married Elizabeth Turnor on 2 December, 1783. They had seven daughters and four sons.

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