[1] James Smyth was born about 1686, and matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford, on 16 September 1702 aged 16.
[1] He married Mirabella, daughter of Sir Robert Legard, Master in Chancery.
He married Louisa Caroline Isabella, youngest daughter of John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, on 23 September 1731.
He became Page of Honour to George II of Great Britain, and was aide-de-camp to General James Wolfe at the siege of Quebec in 1759, becoming afterwards Colonel in the Foot Guards.
His only sister Anna Mirabella Henrietta, born in 1738, married William Beale Brand, of Polsted Hall, Suffolk, in 1761.