Submitted by admin on
Family and Education
1st s. of John Smith of Exeter, merchant, and Alice, da. of Alexander Muttleberry of Jordans, Som. m. (1) 30 Sept. 1572, Joan (d. aft. 1587), da. of James Walker of Exeter, 2s. (1 d.v.p.) 2da.; (2) settlement 30 Mar. 1598 (with £1,200), Grace (bur. 16 Jan. 1645), da. and coh. of William Viell of Trevorder, Cornw. and wid. of Peter Bevill of Killigarth, Cornw., 1da.Vivian, Vis. Devon, 691-2; Vis. Som. (Harl. Soc. xi), 76; CPR, 1586-7, p. 152; C78/276/7; Vivian, Vis. Cornw. 549. suc. fa. by 1581; Devon Taxes 1581-1660 ed. T.L. Stoate, 109. Kntd. 12 June 1604. Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 133. d. 21 Mar. 1619. WARD 7/58/12.
Offices Held

Freeman, Exeter 1568, Exeter Freemen ed. M.M. Rowe and A.M. Jackson (Devon and Cornw. Rec. Soc. extra ser. i), 88. bailiff 1575–6, J.J. Alexander, ‘Exeter MPs’, Reps. and Trans. Devon Assoc. lxi. 210. common councilman 1579-at least 1614, Devon RO, ECA Act Bk. 3, p. 430; Act Bk. 7, p. 115. churchwarden, St. Petrock, Exeter 1580–2, R. Dymond, ‘St. Petrock’s parish, Exeter’, Reps. and Trans. Devon Assoc. xiv. 467. recvr. Exeter 1582 – 83, sheriff 1583 – 84, mayor 1586 – 87, 1597 – 98, 1607–8, Alexander, 210. alderman 1590-at least 1614, Devon RO, ECA Act Bk. 5, p. 178; Act Bk. 7, p. 115. commr. subsidy 1593 – 95, 1602, 1608, 1610, Devon 1608, Tudor Exeter ed. M.M. Rowe (Devon and Cornw. Rec. Soc. n.s. xxii), 76–7; Exeter Tax and Rate Assessments ed. W.G. Hoskins (Devon and Cornw. Rec. Soc. n.s. ii), 1; SP14/31/1; E179/101/440. j.p. 1602–d., C231, f. 133; C66/2234. collector, tenths and fifteenths, Exeter 1604 – 05, 1607, E401/1874–5, 2403–4, 2408. Privy Seal loans, Devon 1604–5, E401/2585, ff. 22–4. commr. aid, 1609, SP14/43/107. oyer and terminer, Exeter 1614–15, C181/2, ff. 206v, 223v. dep. lt. ?1614–d. APC, 1613–14, p. 428; C231/4, f. 126.

Gov., Exeter French Co. 1586–7. W. Cotton, Elizabethan Guild of City of Exeter, 43.

Parlimentarian
SMITH, George (d.1619), of Madford House, Exeter, Devon
Main residence: Madford House, Exeter, Devon.
Author
G.Y.
P.M.H.
Volume
Commons 1604-1629
Web Title

SMITH, George (-d.1619)

Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
No
Addresses
Religion
Image