John Abel Smith
John Abel Smith (2 June 1802 – 7 January 1871) was a British Member of Parliament (MP) for Chichester and Midhurst.
He was the son of John Smith who preceded him as MP for Midhurst.
He married Anne Jervoise, the daughter of Sir Samuel Clarke Jervoise on 26 December 1827. He was the father of Hugh Colin Smith.
Smith was a founding partner of the Hong Kong-based trading company Jardine, Matheson and Co.[1] and in 1835 became a partner in the merchant banking firm of Magniac, Smith & Co. along with partners Hollingworth Magniac and Oswald Smith at 3, Lombard Street, London. William Jardine agreed to make them agents for Jardines with the proviso that "At no time shall it be expedient that we should give up the option of carrying on transactions with other London houses."[2] In 1841 the bank was renamed Magniac, Jardine & Co.[3] when William Jardine became a partner on his return to England.
In 1847, Smith sat on the Committee of the British Association for the Relief of Distress in Ireland and the Highlands of Scotland, which had been founded by his friend Lionel de Rothschild.[4]
On 26 July 1858 Abel Smith and Lord John Russell, presented Lionel de Rothschild to the House of Commons. The Commons then voted to allow Rothschild, as a Jew, to take the oath on the Old Testament only.[5]
Abel Smith Street, in central Wellington, New Zealand, was named after him.
References
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- ↑ Christine Kinealy, 'Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland. the Kindness of Strangers', Bloomsbury, 2013
- ↑ http://www.rothschildarchive.org/ib/?doc=/ib/articles/BW2aJourney
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by John Abel Smith
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| Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Midhurst 1830–1831 With: George Smith |
Succeeded by George Robert Smith Martin Tucker Smith |
| Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Chichester 1831 – 1859 With: Lord John Lennox to 1831 Lord Arthur Lennox 1831–1846 Lord Henry Gordon-Lennox from 1846 |
Succeeded by Lord Henry Gordon-Lennox Humphrey William Freeland |
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