George Smith (MP for Exeter)

Origins

Career

Marriages and children

• Firstly on 30 September 1572 to Joan Walker, daughter of James Walker of Exeter, descended from the Mathew family of Wales. By Joan he had the following children:
• *Sir Nicholas Smith of Larkbeare, Devon, who married Dorothea Horsey, daughter of Sir Raphe Horsey of Dorset, by whom he left male issue
• *Thomas Smith
• *Elizabeth Smith, wife of Sir Thomas Monk of Potheridge, Devon, MP for Camelford in 1626. Their second son was George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle KG
• *Jane Smith, wife of Richard Hening of Dorset.
• Secondly in 1598 to Grace Viell, widow of Peter Bevill of Killigarth, Cornwall and daughter and co-heiress of William Viell of Trevorder, Cornwall by his wife Jane Arundell, daughter of Sir John Arundell of Trerice, Cornwall. By Grace he had one daughter:

• *Grace Smith, wife of the heroic Civil War Royalist commander Sir Bevil Grenville of Bideford in Devon and Stowe, Kilkhampton in Cornwall, killed in action at the Battle of Lansdowne and a Member of Parliament for Cornwall 1621–1625 and 1640–42, and for Launceston 1625–1629 and 1640. She was the mother of John Grenville, 1st Earl of Bath and her other thirteen children were by Royal Warrant of Precedence granted the rank and title of Earl's children by King Charles II on 20 August 1675, in recognition of their father's services. The arms of Smith are shown impaled by Grenville on top of the monument of Sir Bevil Grenville in Kilkhampton Church.

  Death and burial