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SMITH, Thomas (d.1728), of South Tidworth, Hants.
Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754, ed. R. Sedgwick, 1970
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Constituency
Dates
7 May 1709 - 1710
1710 - 1713
1715 - 1722
1727 - 3 Aug. 1728
Family and Education
1st s. of John Smith. unm. suc. fa. 1723.
Offices Held
Clerk of the Council in extraordinary Mar. 1706-12;1 vice-chamberlain to Queen Caroline 1727-d.
Biography
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.
Ref Volumes: 1715-1754
Author: Eveline Cruickshanks
Notes
- 1. Luttrell, vi. 27.