Sir Hugh Smithson, 1st Baronet

Sir Hugh Smithson, 1st Baronet (c. 1598–1670) of Stanwick St John, North Yorkshire, was a Royalist supporter during the Civil War for which he was rewarded with a baronetcy by King Charles II on the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660.

He was the son and heir of Anthony Smithson of Newsham[3] anciently "Newsham Broghton Lith",[4] in the Parish of Kirkby Ravensworth, North Riding of Yorkshire,[5] by his wife Eleanor Catterick, daughter and heir of George Catterick of Stanwick.

[6] He was a Citizen of the City of London, a member of the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers[7][3] and "an adventurer in Irish lands".

[10] As a further token of the king's gratitude, in order to distinguish him from the rest of his family, he was granted the honour of a different coat of arms: Or, on a chief embattled azure three suns proper.

[13] The will proved on 22 Nov. 1658 of "Jeramy Rawstorne" of London, a member of the Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors survives in the Lancashire Archives (the family was also of New Hall, Preston Lancashire) summarised as follows:[14] By his wife he had four sons and two daughters, of which only three survived him: He died on 21 October 1670, aged 72, at his home at Tottenham High Cross (which formerly belonged to the Hynningham family),[20] Middlesex, and was buried in his parish church of St John the Baptist, Stanwick St John, where survives his elaborate monument showing two effigies, of himself and his wife, probably sculpted by William Stanton (1639–1705) of London.