Charles Smythe Gent (1628 - abt. 1683)

Born 10 Mar 1628 in London, England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Died about 1683 at about age 54 in Chelsea, Middlesex, England

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Biography

Charles Smythe of Sutton at Hone, Kent, Gent

Charles Smythe was a son of John Smythe and Isabella Rich.^[1]

"Charles the sonne of Sir John Smith Knight & the Lady Isabella his wife was borne the 10th of Mh [1627/1628] and baptized the 26th March 1628" at St Bartholomew the Great, City of London.^[2][3]

Charles Smith, gentleman, was noted in the will of his grandmother Sarah the Dowager Countess of Leicester, the will made on 02 Feb 1655/1656 and proved on 13 Mar 1655/1656.^[4]

"Charles, sat for Lostwithiel in the Cavalier Parliament and for Penryn in 1680-1, probably as an opponent of Exclusion."^[1][5]

Charles Smythe Esq brother to the Rt Hon Laetitia Isabella Countess of Radnor died at Chelsey [presumably Chelsea, Middlesex) and was interr'd here [at Lanhydrock, Cornwall], February 1682/1683.^[6]

Summary of the Will of Charles Smythe, 1683

In his will dated 18 Oct 1682 and proved 06 Mar 1682/1683 he was recorded as "Charles Smith of Sutton at Hone in the County of Kent Gent" (although he appears to have signed as Charles Smythe).^[7]

He made bequests including to:

• his nephew Francis Roberts
• his nephew Robert Smith

He named his sister the Countess of Radnor as sole Executrix.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Smythe, Sir John III (c.1599-1640), of Sutton-at-Hone, Kent. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629, ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, 2010 HOP.
2. ↑ St Bartholomew the Great, City of London. Register. Image of Register accessed via Ancestry.
3. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JW7Y-YMB : 3 February 2023), John Smith in entry for Charles Smith, 1628.
4. ↑ Will of Sarah Countess of Leicester, Dowager. 13 Mar 1656. PROB 11/253/638. The National Archives, Kew.
5. ↑ 'A list of the Commons: Charles II's third Parliament (1680-1)', in The History and Proceedings of the House of Commons: Volume 5, 1713-1714 (London, 1742), pp. 38-45. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/commons-hist-proceedings/vol5/pp38-45 [accessed 2 November 2022].
6. ↑ Lanhydrock, Cornwall. Burial Register. Transcript. Cornwall OPC Database.
7. ↑ Will of Charles Smith or Smythe, Gentleman of Sutton-at-Hone, Kent. 06 March 1683. PROB 11/372/306. The National Archives, Kew.