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SMYTHE, LUCIUS, brother of Edward Smythe (qv); b.; adm. 20 Jun 1662; a boarder (Busby’s Account Book); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 27 Nov 1668, aged 16; BA 1672; adm. Middle Temple 7 Jul 1666; lic. to m. 7 May 1687 Elizabeth Wingfield, Hardwick, Bucks.; d. 21 Nov 1694.

SMYTHE, GEORGE, son of David Smythe, Lord Methven, an Ordinary Lord of Session (S), and his second wife Euphemia Amelia, only dau. of Mungo Murray, Lintrose, Perthshire; b. 16 Mar 1797; adm. Midsummer 1810; left 1812; adm. advocate, 22 Jun 1819; Advocate-Depute; killed in carriage accident near Caputh, Perthshire, unm., 24 Sep 1834.

SMYTHE, EDWARD, elder son of Sir Edward Smythe, Kt, Whitchurch, Bucks., Chief Justice of the Common Pleas (I), and Constance, widow of Sir William Spencer, Bart., and dau. of Sir William Lucy, Charlecote, Warwicks.; b.; adm. 9 Apr 1662 (Busby’s Account Book); a boarder; adm. Middle Temple 7 Jul 1666; m. 24 Jun 1675 Mary Matts, Whitchurch, Bucks.; buried Whitchurch, Bucks., 22 Aug 1690.

SMYTHE, DENNIS; b.; adm.; KS 25 Oct 1549; left 1553 (Acts of Chapter i, 278).

SMYTHE, ---; b.; in under school list 1722.

SMYTHE, ---; b.; adm.; a pensioner 1564-6 (tutors, the Head Master and the Usher) (Chapter Muniments 54005, 54007-10).

SMYTH, WILLIAM; b.; adm. 5 Oct 1812; left 8 May 1817.

SMYTH, WILLIAM; b.; adm. 19 Feb 1781.

SMYTH, SIR WARINGTON WILKINSON, eldest son of Adm. William Henry Smyth FRS FSA, Royal Navy, President, Royal Astronomical Society and Royal Geographical Society, and Annaretta, only dau. of Thomas Warington, British Consul at Naples; b. 29 Aug 1817; adm. 14 Jan 1825; went to Bedfiord GS; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. sizar 27 Mar 1835; BA 1839; MA 1844; probably the only Westminster who was a member of the First and Second Trinity Boat Clubs; rowed for Cambridge v. Oxford 1839; mining geologist, Geological Survey of the British Isles 1844; Lecturer, Royal School of Mines, from 1851; Mineral Surveyor, Duchy of Cornwall 1852; Inspector of Crown Minerals 1857; FRS 3 Jun 1858; President, Geological Society 1876-8; Chairman, Royal Commission on Accidents in Mines 1879-86; knighted 12 Aug 1887; author, A Year with the Turks, 1854, and a number of papers on geological subjects; m. 9 Apr 1864 Anna Maria Antonia, third dau. of Anthony Mervin Story Maskelyne, Basset Down House, Wilts.; d. 19 Jun 1890. DNB.

SMYTH, SIR ROBERT, BART. , son of Rev. Robert Smyth, Vicar of Woolavington, Somerset, and Dorothy, dau. of Thomas Lloyd, Dolyglunnen, Merioneth; b. 10 Jan 1744; at school under Markham (Steward, Anniversary Dinner 1775); Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 27 Jan 1762, matr. Easter 1762; BA 1766; MA 1775; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 3 Apr 1761; succ. cousin as 5th baronet 8 Dec 1765; MP Cardigan 1774 – 7 Dec 1775, Colchester 1780-4, 14 Jul 1784-90; travelling in Italy 1777-8; carried on a banking business in Paris from early 1790s; Tom Paine described Smyth in 1796 as “a very particular friend of mine” who has “lived several years in France, for he likes neither the government nor the climate of England” (Conway, Life of Thomas Paine, 1892, ii, 240); present at the famous British dinner held at White’s Hotel in Paris on 18 Nov 1792 to celebrate recent French victories, at which he renounced his title and proposed the toast “The speedy abolition of all hereditary titles and feudal distinctions”; became a member of the British Revolutionary Club; subsequently imprisoned in Paris for more than a year; m. 17 Sep 1776 Charlotte Sophia Blake, Hanover Square, London; d. 12 Apr 1802.