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Six or seven Smith Peers:
-Viscount Hambledon (created 1891), of Greenlands, Henley-on-Thames, creators of W. H . Smith. In 1883 they had 5,150 acres in Suffolk (worth 8,000), 1,100 in Buckinghamshire (worth 1,770) and 527 in Berkshire (worth 715 guineas pa);
-Earldom of Birkenhead, created for F. E. Smith, aka The Rt. Hon. Frederick Edwin Smith, GCSI, PC, KC (1872 –1930), in 1922. (Extinct 1985);
-Lord Carrington, sometime of of Wycombe Abbey, High Wycombe. In 1883 they had 16,128 acres in Buckinghamshire (worth 26,805 guineas pa) and 9,656 acres in Lincolnshire (worth 15,418). Various creations: Marquis (1912) (& Viscount & Earl before that in 1895), and Baron (1796 and 1797).
-Lord Bicester (scion of the above), Barony created in 1938;
-Frederick Henry Smith (1859-1946), PC, created Baron Colwyn, in 1917;
-Ferdinando Dudley William Lea Smith, 12th Baron Dudley (1872–1936). A barony created by writ in 1440, enjoyed by two or three generations of the Smith family between 1916 and 1972.
+Note there have been twenty-six Smith Baronetcies.
Great Landowners in 1883 (as listed by Bateman):
-Abel Smith of Woodhall, Park, Ware. 11,212, acres in Herts (worth 14,617 guineas pa);
-George William Duff-Assheton-Smith, of Vaynol, Bangor, 33,752 acres in Carnarvon (worth 42,255 pa);
-Henry Smith, of Horling, Folkingham, 3,639 acres in Lincilnshire (worth 7,253 pa);
-A. V. Smith-Sligo, of Inzievar, Fife, Perth, Midlothian and Lanark 2,938 acres (worth 6,806 pa);
-Sir C.C. Smith, Bart, of Suttons, Essex 2,485 acres (worth 3,931 pa);
-James Smith, of Olrig, 2,734 in Caithness (worth 2,274 pa);
-John L. Smith, 4,534 in Tipperary (worth 2,120 pa);
-W. C. Smith, of Shortgrove, Essex & Cambridgeshire 2,904 (worth 4,744 pa).
Tresco, Isles of Scilly.
Augustus John Smith (1804 – 1872) acquired the islands' lease in 1834, and was governor there for over 30 years. His descendants have been known as Smith-Dorrien-Smith, and Dorrien-Smith.
(©R. de Salis, March 2013)