Smithson baronets

The Smithson Baronetcy, of Stanwick in the County of York, is a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 2 August 1660 for Hugh Smithson (1598-1670) of Stanwick St John, Yorkshire. Sir Hugh Smithson, the fourth Baronet, married Lady Elizabeth Seymour, daughter of Algernon Seymour, 7th Duke of Somerset and heiress of the Percy family headed by the Earl of Northumberland. In 1749 the Duke was created Earl of Northumberland, with remainder to his son-in-law Sir Hugh Smithson, who succeeded as second Earl on his father-in-law's death in 1750. He assumed the surname of Percy and was created Duke of Northumberland in 1766. The baronetcy remains merged with the dukedom.

Arms of Smithson of Stanwick, Yorkshire (ancient): Argent, a chevron engrailed sable between three oak leaves erect slipped vert[1]

Augmented arms of Smithson Baronets of Stanwick: Or, on a chief embattled azure three suns proper[2]

Monument of Sir Hugh Smithson, 1st Baronet (d.1670), St John the Baptist's Church, Stanwick, Yorks.[3]

Mural monument to Sir Hugh Smithson, 3rd Baronet, who married Elizabeth Langdale, daughter of Marmaduke Langdale, Baron Langdale, Church of St John the Baptist, Stanwick, Yorks.

Smithson baronets of Stanwick (1660)

• Sir Hugh Smithson, 1st Baronet (c. 1598–1670)
• Sir Jerome Smithson, 2nd Baronet (c. 1630–1684)
• Sir Hugh Smithson, 3rd Baronet (1657–1729)[4]
  • Langdale Smithson
• Sir Hugh Smithson (later Percy), 4th Baronet (c.1714–1786) (succeeded as Earl of Northumberland in 1750 and created Duke of Northumberland in 1766)

For further succession, see Duke of Northumberland.

See also

• Earl of Northumberland
• Duke of Northumberland
• Duke of Somerset

Notes

1. Collins' Baronetage of England; The old arms can be seen carved in wood impaling the arms of Fairfax (A lion rampant) on the staircase of Moulton Hall, Richmond, York, made following the 1653 marriage of George Smithson. See image in: Smithson, George R., Genealogical notes memoirs of the Smithson family, London, 1906, plate between pp.24&25
2. Collins, Arthur, The English Baronetage, vol.3, part 1; Victoria County History, Stanwick St John
3. Further reading: The Smithson Monuments at Stanwick, North Yorkshire by Bulter, L., published in Journal of the Church Monument Society Volume XV, 2000. 6pp, 4 b/w pls
4. Date of death per mural monument in Stanwick Church & per Burke's Baronetage of England

References

• Leigh Rayment's list of baronets

Further reading

• Smithson, George R., Genealogical notes memoirs of the Smithson family, London, 1906 (archive.org text)
• De Fonblanque, Edward Barrington, Annals of the House of Percy, From the Conquest to the Opening of the Nineteenth Century, 2 Volumes, London, 1887
  • Volume 1
  • Volume 2, Part 1
  • Volume 2, Part 2
• Bulter, L., The Smithson Monuments at Stanwick, North Yorkshire, published in Journal of the Church Monument Society, Volume XV, 2000. 6pp, 4 b/w plates