{{Short description|English politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2016}} {{Use British English|date=November 2016}} '''Francis Smallman''' (c. 1565 – 7 September 1633) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1621 and 1626.
[[File:Monument to Francis Smallman (Kinnersley) (geograph 7045600).jpg|thumb|Monument to Francis Smallman in the Church of St James, Kinnersley]] Smallman was the son of Francis Smallman and his wife Elizabeth Hopton.<ref name=Whitney>{{Cite web |url=http://wiki.whitneygen.org/wrg/index.php/Family:Whitney,_Lucy_(c1609-1673) |title=Whitney Genealogy - Whitney, Lucy |access-date=23 April 2011 |archive-date=29 September 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929013757/http://wiki.whitneygen.org/wrg/index.php/Family:Whitney,_Lucy_(c1609-1673) |url-status=dead }}</ref> He was a lawyer and acquired Kinnersley Castle,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://wiki.whitneygen.org/wrg/index.php/Archive:Castles_of_Herefordshire |title=Whitney Genealogy - Castles of Herefordshire |access-date=23 April 2011 |archive-date=29 September 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929013946/http://wiki.whitneygen.org/wrg/index.php/Archive:Castles_of_Herefordshire |url-status=dead }}</ref> serving as High Sheriff of Herefordshire for 1614–15.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/smalman-francis-i-1565-1633| title= SMALMAN, Francis I (c.1565-1633), of Kinnersley Castle, Herefs.; formerly of St. John Street, Clerkenwell, Mdx.| publisher= History of Parliament Online|access-date = 19 August 2014}}</ref>
In 1621, Smallman was elected Member of Parliament for Leominster. He was elected MP for Wenlock in 1626.<ref name=Willis>[https://books.google.com/books?id=5V09AAAAYAAJ&q=%22Browne+Willis%22 Browne Willis ''Notitia parliamentaria, or, An history of the counties, cities, and boroughs in England and Wales: ... The whole extracted from mss. and printed evidences'' 1750 pp167-197]</ref> Smallman married firstly Elizabeth Craft widow of George Craft and daughter of Stockmede, by whom he had children Francis, Jane, and Jone. He married secondly Susan Clarke, widow of John Clarke of London and daughter of Fabian of Essex by whom he had two children William and Alice.<ref name=Whitney/>
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{{s-start}} {{s-par|en}} {{succession box | title=Member of Parliament for Leominster | before= Sir Ralph Coningsby | before2= William Beecher | with=William Beecher | years=1621 | after= James Tomkins | after2= William Beecher }} {{succession box | title=Member of Parliament for Wenlock | before= Thomas Lawley | before2= Thomas Woolrich | with= Thomas Lawley | years=1626 | after= Thomas Lawley | after2= George Bridgmant }} {{s-end}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Smallman, Francis}} Category:1560s births Category:1633 deaths Category:People from Leominster Category:Politicians from Shropshire Category:Lawyers from Shropshire Category:English MPs 1621–1622 Category:English MPs 1626 Category:High sheriffs of Herefordshire