Jervoise Smith

Jervoise Smith (3 October 1828 – 21 July 1884)[1][2] was a British Liberal Party politician and banker.

[3] Smith was the son of former Chichester MP John Abel Smith and Anne née Clarke-Jervoise.

[2] He married Margaret Louisa Verney, daughter of Robert Verney in 1874, and they had issue.

[4] He was a partner in the banking firm Smith, Payne, and Smiths,[3] the first British bank believed to be formed outside London but later gaining a home on Lombard Street.

[5] Smith was elected a Liberal MP for Penryn and Falmouth at a by-election in 1866 but lost the seat at the next general election in 1868.