About George Smith
Lived 1600 – 1658. George Smith was a politician, lawyer and judge.
George Smith or Smyth was an English lawyer.
Biography The son of John Smith, of Kirdford, Sussex, he matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford on 29 January 1619, age sixteen. In 1633 he was a barrister-at-law of Gray's Inn. He was appointed a commissioner for the administration of justice in civil matters for Scotland in 1652, and sat in the Protectorate Parliament for the sheriffdom of Midlothian from 1654 to 1655, and for the sheriffdom of Dumfries from 1656 until his death on circuit at Inverness, on 26 September 1658.
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English lawyer, died 1658
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George Smith was born in 1600.
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George Smith died in 1658.
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George Smith was a politician, lawyer and judge.
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