Robert Vernon Smith [Bobus Smith]

(1800-1873)

NAME AUTHORITIES: DNB: Vernon, Robert [formerly Robert Vernon Smith], first Baron Lyveden (1800–1873), politician LBT ID: LdLyved1 VIAF ID: 120128245	B/BAP: 1800-02-23 DIED: 1873-11-10
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; thepeerage.com
The son of Bobus Smith and nephew of Sydney Smith; educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, he was a Whig MP for Tralee (1829-30) and Northampton (1831-59). He held offices in government and was raised to the peerage in 1859.
REFERENCES TO Robert Vernon Smith [Bobus Smith]: Sydney Smith to Lady Holland, [19] September 1829 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1: ¶ 4 Saba Holland, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Letters 1829