Samuel Smith (1754-1834)

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Samuel Smith (14 April 1754-12 March 1834) was a British Member of Parliament.

He was the third son of Abel Smith, a wealthy Nottingham banker and Member of Parliament. Four of his brothers were also Members of Parliament and one, Robert, was raised to the peerage as Baron Carrington. A portion of the family wealth was devoted to buying control of two pocket boroughs, Wendover and Midhurst, and Carrington kept the seats here almost exclusively for use by various members of the Smith family until his power was ended by the Great Reform Act.

Smith entered Parliament in 1788 as member for St Germans , and was an MP for the next 44 years, also representing Leicester, Midhurst and Wendover. He and his son Abel were Wendover's last MPs, as they sat together as its members for the last two years before the borough's abolition. He did not return to Parliament after the Great Reform Act, dying two years later.

He married Elizabeth Turnor on 2 December 1783. They had seven daughters and four sons.

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Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by John James Hamilton Abel Smith	Member of Parliament for St Germans with John James Hamilton 1788-1790 Sir Charles Hamilton 1790 1788–1790	Succeeded by Marquess of Lorn Hon. Edward James Eliot
Preceded by John Macnamara Charles Loraine-Smith	Member of Parliament for Leicester with Thomas Parkyns 1790–1800 Thomas Babington 1800–1801 1790–1801	Succeeded by Parliament of the United Kingdom
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Parliament of Great Britain	Member of Parliament for Leicester with Thomas Babington 1801–1818	Succeeded by John Mansfield Thomas Pares
Preceded by Thomas Thompson Sir Oswald Mosley	Member of Parliament for Midhurst with John Smith 1818–1820	Succeeded by John Smith Abel Smith
Preceded by George Smith Robert John Smith	Member of Parliament for Wendover with George Smith 1820–1830 Abel Smith 1830–1832 1820–1832	Succeeded by Constituency abolished