{{Short description|British politician (1828-1884)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox officeholder |name = Jervoise Smith |alt = |caption = |office = Member of Parliament <br /> for Penryn and Falmouth |parliament = |majority = |term_start = 15 October 1866 |term_end = 17 November 1868 |alongside = Samuel Gurney |predecessor = Thomas Baring<br />Samuel Gurney |successor = Robert Fowler<br />Edward Eastwick |birth_date = 3 October 1828 |birth_place = |death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1884|07|21|1828|10|03}} |death_place = |alma_mater = |party = Liberal |parents = John Abel Smith<br />Anne Clarke-Jervoise |spouse = {{marriage|Margaret Louisa Verney|30 September 1874}} |children = }}
'''Jervoise Smith''' (3 October 1828 – 21 July 1884)<ref>{{Rayment-hc|p|1|date=March 2018}}</ref><ref name="debrett">{{cite book|last1=Debrett|first1=John|authorlink1=John Debrett|editor1-last=Courthope|editor1-first=William|editor1-link=William Courthope (officer of arms)|title=Debrett's Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland. [Another]|date=1836|page=246|edition=21|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UNQDAAAAQAAJ&q=jervoise+smith+3+october+1828&pg=PA246|accessdate=15 March 2018|chapter=English Peerage}}</ref> was a British Liberal Party politician and banker.<ref name="wodehouse">{{cite book|last1=Wodehouse|first1=John|authorlink1=John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley|editor1-last=Hawkins|editor1-first=Angus|editor2-last=Powell|editor2-first=John|title=The Journal of John Wodehouse First Earl of Kimberley, 1862-1902|date=1997|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge|isbn=9780521623285|page=192|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q7biivQ5NUIC&q=Jervoise+smith&pg=PA192|accessdate=15 March 2018}}</ref>
Smith was the son of former Chichester MP John Abel Smith and Anne née Clarke-Jervoise.<ref name="debrett"/> He married Margaret Louisa Verney, daughter of Robert Verney in 1874, and they had issue.<ref name="cracroft">{{cite web|title=Willoughby de Broke, Baron (E, 1491)|url=http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/willoughbyb1491.htm|website=Cracroft's Peerage|publisher=Heraldic Media Limited|accessdate=15 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120514021602/http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/WilloughbyB1491.htm|archive-date=14 May 2012|url-status=live}}</ref>
He was a partner in the banking firm Smith, Payne, and Smiths,<ref name="wodehouse"/> the first British bank believed to be formed outside London but later gaining a home on Lombard Street. In 1881, he worked at the bank with Samuel George Smith, Robert Smith, Oswald Augustus Smith, Eric Carrington Smith, and Martin Ridley Smith.<ref>{{cite news|title=Smith, Payne, and Smiths|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/24939/page/743/data.pdf|accessdate=15 March 2018|work=The London Gazette|date=17 February 1881|page=743}}</ref>
Smith was elected a Liberal MP for Penryn and Falmouth at a by-election in 1866 but lost the seat at the next general election in 1868.<ref name="craig1832">{{cite book|editor1-last=Craig|editor1-first=F. W. S.|editor-link=F. W. S. Craig|title=British Parliamentary Election Results 1832–1885|date=1977|publisher=Macmillan Press|location=London|isbn=978-1-349-02349-3|edition=1st|type=e-book}}</ref>
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==External links== * {{Hansard-contribs | mr-jervoise-smith | Mr Jervoise Smith }}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Smith, Jervoise}} Category:Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Category:UK MPs 1865–1868 Category:1828 births Category:1884 deaths Category:Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Penryn and Falmouth