# Jervoise Smith

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{{Short description|British politician (1828-1884)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
|name               = Jervoise Smith
|alt                = 
|caption            =
|office             = [Member of Parliament](/source/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)) <br /> for [Penryn and Falmouth](/source/Penryn_and_Falmouth_(UK_Parliament_constituency))
|parliament         = 
|majority         = 
|term_start        = 15 October 1866
|term_end          = 17 November 1868
|alongside =  [Samuel Gurney](/source/Samuel_Gurney_(MP))
|predecessor        = [Thomas Baring](/source/Thomas_Baring%2C_1st_Earl_of_Northbrook)<br />[Samuel Gurney](/source/Samuel_Gurney_(MP))
|successor         =  [Robert Fowler](/source/Sir_Robert_Fowler%2C_1st_Baronet)<br />[Edward Eastwick](/source/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](/source/Liberal_Party_(UK))
|parents = [John Abel Smith](/source/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](/source/Great_Britain) [Liberal Party](/source/Liberal_Party_(UK))  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](/source/Cambridge_University_Press)|location=[Cambridge](/source/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](/source/Chichester_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) MP [John Abel Smith](/source/John_Abel_Smith) and Anne née Clarke-Jervoise.<ref name="debrett"/> He married Margaret Louisa Verney, daughter of [Robert Verney](/source/Robert_Verney%2C_17th_Baron_Willoughby_de_Broke) 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](/source/Smith's_Bank),<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](/source/The_London_Gazette)|date=17 February 1881|page=743}}</ref>

Smith was elected a Liberal MP for [Penryn and Falmouth](/source/Penryn_and_Falmouth_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) at a [by-election in 1866](/source/1866_Penryn_and_Falmouth_by-election) but lost the seat at the [next general election in 1868](/source/1868_United_Kingdom_general_election).<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>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Hansard-contribs | mr-jervoise-smith | Mr Jervoise Smith }}

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{{s-bef| before = [Thomas Baring](/source/Thomas_Baring%2C_1st_Earl_of_Northbrook) |before2 = [Samuel Gurney](/source/Samuel_Gurney_(MP)) }}
{{s-ttl| title  = Member of Parliament for [Penryn and Falmouth](/source/Penryn_and_Falmouth_(UK_Parliament_constituency))
       | years  = [1866](/source/1866_Penryn_and_Falmouth_by-election)–[1868](/source/1868_United_Kingdom_general_election)
 |with =  [Samuel Gurney](/source/Samuel_Gurney_(MP))
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{{s-aft| after= [Robert Fowler](/source/Sir_Robert_Fowler%2C_1st_Baronet) |after2 = [Edward Eastwick](/source/Edward_Eastwick)
}}

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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

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