Sir Hugh Smith, 1st Baronet [SEP] date of death
Sir Hugh Smith, 1st Baronet
Sir Hugh Smith, 1st Baronet (21 April 1632 – 26 July 1680) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660 and 1679.
Smith was the son of Thomas Smith of Long Ashton, Somerset and his wife Florence Poulett, daughter of John Poulett, 1st Baron Poulett of Hinton St George, Somerset.
In 1660, Smith was elected Member of Parliament for Somerset in the Convention Parliament. He was created baronet of Ashton Court on 16 May 1661
freedom and for Protestant causes. The title became extinct at the death of his son, the fourth Baronet, in 1875.
Mariah Charlotte Smith, daughter of the second Baronet, married Reverend Eardley Childers Walbanke-Childers and was the mother of politician Hugh Childers.
Smith, later Eardley baronets, of Hadley (1802).
- Sir Culling Smith, 1st Baronet (1731–1812)
- Sir Culling Smith, 2nd Baronet (1769–1829)
- Sir Culling Eardley Eardley, 3rd Baronet (1805–1863)
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