Sir Hugh Smithson, 1st Baronet

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Arms of Smithson of Stanwick, Yorkshire (ancient): Argent, a chevron engrailed sable between three oak leaves erect slipped vert[1]

Augmented arms of Smithson Baronets of Stanwick: Or, on a chief embattled azure three suns proper[2]

Sir Hugh Smithson, 1st Baronet (c. 1598–1670) of Stanwick St John, North Yorkshire, was a Royalist supporter during the Civil War for which he was rewarded with a baronetcy by King Charles II on the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660. His great-great-grandson was Sir Hugh Smithson, 4th Baronet (1715-1786), who having inherited by his marriage half of the great Percy, Earl of Northumberland, estates, and the title 2nd Earl of Northumberland by special remainder from his father-in-law Algernon Seymour, 7th Duke of Somerset (d.1750), changed his surname and arms to Percy and was created in 1766 1st Duke of Northumberland.

Family

Origins

He was the son and heir of Anthony Smithson of Newsham[3] anciently "Newsham Broghton Lith",[4] in the Parish of Kirkby Ravensworth, North Riding of Yorkshire,[5] by his wife Eleanor Catterick, daughter and heir of George Catterick of Stanwick.

Marriage & progeny

He married Dorothy Rawstorne (alias Royston), daughter of Jerom Rawstorne of Plaistow in Essex.[16]

By his wife he had four sons and two daughters, of which only three survived him:

1. Sir Jerome Smithson, 2nd Baronet (d.1684), eldest son and heir, married Mary Wingate, daughter and heiress of Edward Wingate (c.1606-1685) of Lockley's Hall in Hertfordshire, MP for St Albans 1640-42.
2. Hugh Smithson, 2nd son, who inherited his father's Suffolk estates,[18] a haberdasher of Old Exchange Precincts in the City of London,[19] who married Mrs Alice Yeane, by whom he had one daughter Anne Smithson, married to Sir Henry Johnson (c.1659-1719) of Bradenham in Buckinghamshire,[20] Blackwall in Middlesex and Friston in Suffolk, several times MP for Aldeburgh in Suffolk,[21] 'the greatest shipbuilder and shipowner of his day', who had by her an only daughter Anne Johnson, the wife of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (1672-1739), KG, First Lord of the Admiralty.
3. Anthony Smithson (d.1688), 3rd son, a barrister at Gray’s Inn who inherited his father's estates at Tottenham Cross in Middlesex and at Armin in Yorkshire.[22] He married Susanna Barkham, daughter of Sir Edward Barkham, 1st Baronet (1591-1667), MP, of South Acre in Norfolk, by whom he had one son Hugh Smithson (1661-1740) of Tottenham in Middlesex, several times MP for Middlesex, who inherited estates worth £3,000 p.a. in Middlesex and Yorkshire.[23] He married firstly Hester Godfrey, daughter of Michael Godfrey of Woodford in Essex, by whom he had 7 children who all died unmarried. He married secondly Constantia Hare, only daughter of Henry Hare, 2nd Baron Coleraine (1636–1708), without progeny. His heir was his cousin Sir Hugh Smithson, 4th Baronet, later 1st Duke of Northumberland.

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