About Richard Smith
Lived 1516 – 1581 (aged 64–65). Richard Smith was a politician.
Richard Smith (by 1516 – buried on 22 May 1581) was an English politician.
He was Mayor of Newcastle-under-Lyme 1547–48 and 1549–50. He was a member (MP) of the parliament of England for Newcastle-under-Lyme in November 1554 and 1555.
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Who was Richard Smith?
English politician, died 1581
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Richard Smith was born in 1516.
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Richard Smith died in 1581.
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Richard Smith was a politician.
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