He served in the British parliament, was mentioned in a divorce case, met the pope and rose to be a High Sheriff of Leicestershire.

[3] When Smith was in Florence he posed for a painting by Johann Zoffany of the Tribuna of the Uffizi.

He supported Pitt the Younger's plans for reform, and he gave a number of speeches on the subjects of India, Canada and against the receipts tax and the slave trade.

[2] Smith and his wife Elizabeth's first child, Charles Crayle, was born in 1782 and died young.

[8] The Coplow run was a race on horseback for fox huntsmen that was celebrated in verse by the poetic bishop Robert Lowth.

[9] Smith used his knowledge of fox hunting and his artistic skills to paint parodies.

[13] Loraine and Lord Maynard were there, and can tell Who in Justice's scale holds the balance so well As very good judges and justices too The state of each horse, and what each man did do: But if any one thinks he is quizzed in the song And fancies his case stated legally wrong To Enderby Hall let him go and complain But he'll not mend his case, if he meets with Loraine.

He'd been taking a glass to the hounds and the fox : In his moments of mirth, he would sometimes drink deep ; When you thought he was dead — he was only asleep!