Robert Carrington, 2nd Baron Carrington

Will proved 1838, left £120,000 personalty. Son of Abel Smith (c. 1717-12 July 1788), banker and merchant of Nottingham and London, MP 1774-88, who left £59,573 plus land in Britain and an estate in Jamaica. Head of Smith, Payne & Smith from 1780. Created Baron Carrington in Irish peerage 1796, UK peerage 1797. Also owned an estate at Wycombe in Buckinghamshire (Wycombe Abbey), which he bought from Lord Lansdowne.

Served as Captain of Deal Castle 1802-1838, hence presumably the 1835 Boyle's additional address of Deal Castle, Kent.

T71/852 St Catherine claim no. 538 (Farm Pen).

William D. Rubinstein, Who were the rich? A biographical dictionary of British wealth-holders Volume One 1809-1839 (London, Social Affairs Unit, 2009) reference 1838/33.

Jacob M. Price, ‘Smith, Abel (1717?–1788)’, rev. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004) [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/37975, accessed 10/08/2012].

 http://thepeerage.com/p1473.htm#14721 [accessed 01/10/2010]; Boyle's Directory (1835).