Charles Culling Smith

Charles Culling Smith

Charles Culling Smith, sometimes called Culling Charles Smith (c. 1775[1] – 26 May 1853[2]) was a British politician and courtier.

Family

He was the son of Charles Smith, Governor of Madras, and nephew of Sir Culling Smith, 1st Baronet.[3]

On 2 August 1799 he married Lady Anne Fitzroy (13 March 1768[4] – 16 December 1844), widow of the Hon. Henry Fitzroy (13 September 1765 – 19 March 1794; fourth son of Charles Fitzroy, 1st Baron Southampton) and only daughter of Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington.[5] By this marriage he gained two stepdaughters:

His marriage to Lady Anne produced a further two children, a daughter and a son:

  • Emily Frances Smith (3 March 1800 – 2 October 1889[8]), married 29 June 1822 her half-sister's widower Lord Worcester, who succeeded his father as 7th Duke of Beaufort in 1835. They had one son and six daughters.[7]
  • Frederick William Culling Smith (died 19 June 1828), a godson of the Duke of York.[9] He was made a Page of Honour on 13 March 1812[10] and commissioned as a Cornet in the 2nd Dragoon Guards on 22 April 1819.[11] He transferred into the Coldstream Guards as an Ensign on 18 January 1820[9] and reached the rank of Lieutenant in that regiment before promotion to the Royal Horse Guards as a Captain on 2 January 1823.[12] On 1 August 1826 he was promoted to the rank of Major of Infantry on the unattached list,[13] and joined the 80th Regiment of Foot on 17 January 1828.[14] He died at Malta later that year, aged twenty-six.[9]

Charles Culling Smith and Lady Anne lived in a grace-and-favour residence at Apartment 8, Hampton Court Palace.[15]

Life

Charles Culling Smith's brother-in-law, the Marquess Wellesley, became Foreign Secretary in the Tory government of Spencer Perceval in 1809, and Culling Smith was appointed Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs on 13 December that year,[16] serving until 27 February 1812.[17] On 1 June 1812 he was one of the Esquires to his brother-in-law the Earl of Wellington at the latter's installation (by proxy) as a Knight Companion of the Order of the Bath.[18]

Culling Smith served as an equerry to the Duke of York, and was present in that capacity at the funeral of Queen Charlotte on 8 December 1818,[19] while his son was there as Page of Honour.[20] On 14 August 1820 Culling Smith and his wife, son, daughter and step-daughters were among the mourners at the funeral of the Duchess of York.[21] His last service as equerry was at the Duke of York's funeral on 20 January 1827.[22]

On 13 March 1827 Culling Smith was made one of the Commissioners of the Board of Customs,[23] but he continued to attend state occasions including the funeral of the Duke of Gloucester on 11 December 1834[24] and the Duke of Wellington on 18 November 1852.[25][26]

References

  1. ^ http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/subjectView.asp?ID=P26447
  2. ^ http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/compton-reade/the-smith-family--being-a-popular-account-of-most-branches-of-the-name--however-ala/page-13-the-smith-family--being-a-popular-account-of-most-branches-of-the-name--however-ala.shtml
  3. ^ Arthur Collins, The Baronetage of England, London 1808, p.508
  4. ^ William Jesse, The Life of George Brummell, Esq., commonly called Beau Brummell, London 1844, vol. I, p. 289
  5. ^ Patrick Cracroft-Brennan, Cracroft's Peerage: Mornington, Earl of (I, 1760). Accessed 12 June 2011.
  6. ^ Paul Theroff, An Online Gotha, Part II: Grafton. Accessed 12 June 2011.
  7. ^ a b Patrick Cracroft-Brennan, Cracroft's Peerage: Beaufort, Duke of (E, 1682). Accessed 12 June 2011.
  8. ^ http://www.thepeerage.com/p10719.htm#i107183
  9. ^ a b c Jesse, p. 290
  10. ^ http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/16582/pages/470
  11. ^ http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/17473/pages/755
  12. ^ http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/17886/pages/43
  13. ^ London Gazette: no. 18273. p. 1895. 1 August 1826.
  14. ^ http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/18441/pages/288
  15. ^ Sarah E. Parker, Grace & Favour: A handbook of who lived where in Hampton Court Palace 1750 to 1950, Historic Royal Palaces 2005, p.30
  16. ^ Joseph Haydn and Horace Ockerby, The Book of Dignities, London 1894, reprinted Bath 1969, p. 229
  17. ^ 'Alphabetical list of officials', Office-Holders in Modern Britain: Volume 8: Foreign Office Officials 1782-1870 (1979), pp. 58-82. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=16902 Date accessed: 25 June 2011.
  18. ^ London Gazette: no. 16609. p. 1055. 2 June 1812.
  19. ^ http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/17429/pages/2200
  20. ^ http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/17429/pages/2199
  21. ^ http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/17625/pages/1585
  22. ^ http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/18328/pages/179
  23. ^ Haydn and Ockerby, p. 277
  24. ^ http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/19221/pages/2265
  25. ^ http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/21388/pages/3559
  26. ^ http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/21388/pages/3562

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