The Smith, later Eardley Baronetcy, of Hadley in the County of Middlesex, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 22 December 1802 for Culling Smith. He was the son of Thomas Smith, a London

London

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 merchant. The second Baronet married the Honourable Charlotte Elizabeth, daughter of Sampson Eardley, 1st Baron Eardley

Sampson Eardley, 1st Baron Eardley

Sampson Eardley, 1st Baron Eardley , known as Sampson Gideon until 1789, was the son of another Sampson Gideon , a Jewish banker in the City of London who advised the British government in the 1740s and 1750s.He served as Member of Parliament for Cambridgeshire from 1770 to 1780, Midhurst from 1780...

. Their son, the third Baronet, assumed by Royal license the surname of Eardley in lieu of his patronymic in 1847. He was a Christian campaigner for religious freedom and for protestant causes. The title became extinct on the death of his son, the fourth Baronet, in 1875.

Mariah Charlotte Smith, daughter of the second Baronet, married Reverend Eardley Childers Walbanke-Childers and was the mother of politician Hugh Childers

Hugh Childers

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Smith, later Eardley Baronets, of Hadley (1802)

• Sir Culling Smith, 1st Baronet (1731-1812)
• Sir Culling Smith, 2nd Baronet (1769-1829)
• Sir Culling Eardley Eardley, 3rd Baronet (1805-1863)
• Sir Eardley Gideon Culling Eardley, 4th Baronet (1838-1875)