Family and Education
b. c. 1655, 4th but only surv. s. of John Smith of South Tidworth by Mary, da. Sir Edmund Wright, alderman, of London. educ. St. John’s, Oxf. matric. 18 May 1672, aged 16; M. Temple 1674. m. (1) 1 Sept. 1679, Anne (d. 1680), da. of Sir Nicholas Steward, 1st Bt.†, of Hartley Mauditt, Hants; (2) lic. 7 Nov. 1683, Anne (d. 1727), da. of Sir Thomas Strickland, 2nd Bt.†, of Boynton, Yorks., sis. of Sir William Strickland, 3rd Bt.*, 3s. 4da. (1 d.v.p.). suc. fa. 1690; uncle Thomas Smith, 1692. IGI, London, Hants; Vis. London (Harl. Soc. xvii), 243; Hants Mar. Lic. 1669–80 ed. Willis, 96; Hants Vis. (Harl. Soc. n.s. x), 187; London Mar. Lic. ed. Foster, 1247; Soc. of Geneal. special documents coll. ‘Smith’; PCC 217 Richmond, 159 Dyke, 73 Fane.
Offices Held
Ld. of Treasury 1694–1701; PC 23 May 1695; commr. prize appeals 1695–7; chancellor of Exchequer 1699–1701, 1708–10; commr. union with Scotland 1706; teller of Exchequer 1710–12, 1714–d.
Speaker of the House of Commons 1705–8.
Parlimentarian
Main residence: South Tidworth, Hants.
Volume
Commons 1690-1715
Web Title
SMITH, John I (c.1655-1723)
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