Sir George Smith, 1st Baronet

Sir George Smith, 1st Baronet (1714–1769), of Smith House (later "Bromley House"), Angel Row, Nottingham, and of Stoke Hall in the parish of East Stoke in Nottinghamshire, was a member of the Smith family of bankers, who established Smith's Bank in Nottingham in 1658.

He was created a baronet "of East Stoke in the County of Nottingham", a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain, on 31 October 1757.

His younger brothers included: Abel Smith II (1717–1788) (father of Robert Smith, 1st Baron Carrington, and of John Smith (1767–1842) of Blendon Hall, great-grandfather of Vivian Smith, 1st Baron Bicester (1867–1956)) and John Smith (born 1716), ancestor of Julian Pauncefote, 1st Baron Pauncefote (1828–1902).

His mother was Jane Beaumont (1689–1743), a daughter of George Beaumont of Chapelthorpe in Yorkshire.

He married twice: His mural monument survives in St Oswald's Church, East Stoke,[10] displaying the arms of Smith ("Or, a chevron cotised sable between three demi-griffins couped of the last the two in chief respecting each other"), with an inescutcheon of pretence of Howe ("Or, a fess between three wolf's heads couped sable"[11] of four quarters) impaling Vyse ("Argent, a buck's head cabossed sable between the attires a cross of the last").

Arms of Smith: "Or, a chevron cotised sable between three demi-griffins couped of the last the two in chief respecting each other", as is visible on the monument to Sir George Smith, 1st Baronet, in St Oswald's Church, East Stoke . [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
Stoke Hall , East Stoke, Nottinghamshire, country seat of Sir George Smith, 1st Baronet, later enlarged in 1812
Sir George Pauncefote-Bromley, 2nd Baronet (1753–1808), 1780 miniature by John Smart