Henry Gilbert Smith [SEP] date of death
Henry Gilbert Smith
Henry Gilbert Smith (1802 – 1 April 1886) was an English-born Australian politician.
Life and career.
Smith was born in Northamptonshire to Thomas Smith and Frances Flesher. He migrated to Tasmania in 1827 and from there to Sydney, acquiring land on the Molonglo Plain. He ran an importing and mercantile firm in the early 1830s and later became a director of the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney. In 1839 he married Eleanor Whistler; he would later remarry Anne Margaret Thomas in 1856 and
(1777–1833), who married Smith Thompson (1768–1843), a law partner of Gilbert and later the U.S. Secretary of the Navy and Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. After her death, he married Elizabeth Davenport Livingston (1805–1886), her cousin and the daughter of Gilbert's brother, Henry Livingston Jr.
Livingston died on September 14, 1806.
External links.
- Gilbert Livingston Collection at the New York Public Library