Name Robert 1st | Died September 18, 1838 | |
Robert Smith, 1st Baron Carrington Top # 7 Facts
Robert Smith, 1st Baron Carrington FRS FSA (22 January 1752 – 18 September 1838), was a British Member of Parliament and banker. He was the third son of Abel Smith (1717–1788) and his wife Mary (née Bird, 1724–1780). His grandfather, also named Abel Smith (c. 1690 – 1756), was the third son of Thomas Smith, the founder of Smith's Bank of Nottingham.
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- Robert Smith 1st Baron Carrington Top 7 Facts
- Politics
- Family
- Other descendants
- Styles of address
- References
Politics
Succeeding his elder brother Abel, who died three months after having been elected MP in October 1778, Smith was elected to the House of Commons for Nottingham in 1779, a seat he held until 1797, when he was succeeded by Sir John Borlase Warren.
In 1796 he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Carrington, of Bulcote Lodge. The following year he was made Baron Carrington, of Upton in the County of Nottingham, in the Peerage of Great Britain.
He was also elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (1800) and of the Society of Antiquaries (1812). In 1819 he was admitted as Nobleman to Magdalene College, Cambridge.
He was the Captain of Deal Castle from 1802 until his death.
Family
Smith married firstly, on 6 July 1780 at Tottenham, Anne Boldero-Barnard (1756–1827), daughter of Lewyns and Anne (Popplewell) Boldero-Barnard. They had one son and five daughters. After her death in 1827, he married, secondly, Charlotte Hudson (1770–1849), daughter of John Hudson and Susanna Trevelyan, in 1836. He was 83, she was 65. He died in September 1838, aged 86, and was succeeded in his titles by his only son Robert, who changed his last name to Carrington the next year.
Other descendants
Two of Smith's descendants gained particular political prominence. His grandson Charles, the 3rd Baron, was a Liberal politician and was created Earl Carrington in 1895 and Marquess of Lincolnshire in 1912, while his great-great-grandson Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, is a Conservative politician and served as Foreign Secretary in the Cabinet of Margaret Thatcher from 1979 to 1982.