Samuel Smith (1754–1834)

Samuel Smith (14 April 1754 – 12 March 1834) was a British Tory Member of Parliament and banker.

Smith entered Parliament in 1788 as member for St Germans,[2] and was an MP for the next 44 years, also representing Leicester (1790–1818), Midhurst (1818–1820) and Wendover (1820–1832).

He and his son Abel were Wendover's last MPs, as they sat together as its members for the last two years before the borough's abolition.

The third son, Henry Smith, married Lady Lucy Leslie-Melville, eldest daughter of the 9th Earl of Leven, on 14 July 1824.

[3] In addition, his grandson Henry Abel Smith (1826–1890), son of Henry Smith and Lady Lucy Leslie-Melville, married his first cousin Elizabeth Mary Pym, daughter of Francis Pym and Lady Jane Elizabeth Leslie-Melville, second daughter of the 9th Earl of Leven, on 30 October 1849; they were the grandparents of Sir Henry Abel Smith who served as Governor of Queensland.