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Sir Robert Smyth, 5th Baronet

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Smyth then became a banker and settled in Paris. In 1792 William Lindsay wrote that Smyth had become "a violent democrat ... intimately connected with some of the leading republicans" adding that he "is extremely violent, and will do all the mischief in his power during his stay here". He was a
96:. In 1796 Paine helped him obtain a passport to go to Hamburg to collect remittances from England. He did not return to England for, as Paine wrote to the French minister, he liked "neither the Government nor climate of England". Smyth died in Paris on 12 April 1807. 370: 116: 92:. At a dinner in November 1792 he renounced his title and proposed a toast to "The speedy abolition of all hereditary titles and feudal distinctions". However he was imprisoned during the 56: 350: 390: 178: 73: 355: 261: 210: 81: 360: 385: 380: 375: 198: 286: 270: 253: 239: 227: 139: 249: 235: 223: 322: 77: 69: 84:. He stood at Colchester again in 1784 and was defeated but was then seated on petition. He did not stand again in 1790. 188: 161: 294: 46: 76:
but was unseated on petition on 7 December 1775. He married Charlotte Sophia Blake on 17 September 1776. In the
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at Easter 1762. He succeeded his cousin Sir Trafford Smyth, 4th Baronet in the
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member of the British revolutionary club in Paris and a close friend of
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Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies
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on 8 December 1765. In 1766 he was awarded MA and in 1775 MA.
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House of Commons
Woolavington, Sussex
Westminster School
Lincoln's Inn
Trinity College, Cambridge
baronetcy

Joshua Reynolds
1774 general election
Cardigan Boroughs
1780 general election
Colchester
Thomas Paine
Terror


"Smyth, Robert (SMT762R)"



"SMYTH, Sir Robert, 5th Bt. (1744–1802), of Berechurch, nr. Colchester, Essex"
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Charles Gray
Isaac Martin Rebow
Colchester
Isaac Martin Rebow

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