The son of Charles Smith, governor of Madras; in 1799 he became the second husband of Lady Anne Wellesley, sister of the Duke of Wellington; he was Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (1809).

REFERENCES TO Charles Culling Smith:

Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 30 September 1836 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)