Robert Smith, 1st Baron Carrington ( 1752 - 1838 )

Birth: Nottingham, England, United Kingdom (22 January 1752) Death: His mansion at 26 St James's Place, Whitehall, London, England, United Kingdom (18 September 1838) Burial: High Wycombe (03 October 1838) Profession; Banker; politician; land owner; plantation and slave owner Career: Worked for his father's banking firm Smith, Payne & Smith (also Abel Smith & Co.) of Nottingham', worked for the bank in London (1769) and elevated it from a agent of the Nottingham firm to a trading bank in its own right, became partner (1773), head (1788-1792); MP for Nottingham (1779-1796); Head partner, Smith Ellison & Brown bank of Lincoln (1789-1800); Smiths & Thompson banking firm of Hull, founding partner (1784), head partner (1790-1792); partner in Hull merchant firms Wilberforce and Smith, and Sykes, Son & Co (c.1780s-1790s); Commissioner of Exchequer loan bills (1793); Board of Agriculture, member (1793-1880), President (1801-1803); raised to peerage in recognition of financial services performed for the Prime Minister William Pitt the younger (1796); Bucks Yeomanry, Captain-Lieutenant (1797), Captain (1798-1838) ; Captain of Deal Castle (1802-1838); lieutenant-colonel of the 2nd battalion of the Cinque Ports Volunteers (1803); owned or jointly owned five plantations in Jamaica which used enslaved people for labour, and received compensation from the British government on their emancipation Honours: Baron Carrington of Bulcot Lodge (Ireland) 1796; Baron Carrington of Upton, Nottinghamshire (England) 1797; admitted as Nobleman to Magdalene College, Cambridge (1819) Memberships: FSA (1812) Membership: Fellow Election Date: 29/05/1800.