Edward Smith (judge)
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Sir Edward Smith or Smythe (1602–1682) was an English-born politician, barrister and judge who held the offices of Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas and judge of the Irish Court of Claims.
Detail of the tomb of Alice Lucy, Sir Edward Smith's mother-in-law, in St. Leonard's Church, Charlecote. Her husband Sir Thomas Lucy is buried in the same tomb.
Church of St John the Evangelist, Whitchurch, Buckinghamshire, where Smith is buried
Erasmus Smith
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Erasmus Smith (1611–1691) was an English merchant and a landowner with possessions in England and Ireland. Having acquired significant wealth through trade and land transactions, he became a philanthropist in the sphere of education, treading a path between idealism and self-interest during a period of political and religious turbulence. His true motivations remain unclear.
Erasmus Smith, attributed to the circle of John Michael Wright
The tomb of Sir Roger Smith at the church of St Michael and All Angels, Edmondthorpe. The figures to either side are his two sons, and the two figures reclining with him are his two wives.
Erasmus Smith (1611–1691), by George White (ca. 1684–1732), after an earlier mezzotint picture