Smith-Gordon Baronets
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The Smith, later Smith-Gordon Baronetcy, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 19 July 1838 for General Lionel Smith
Sir Lionel Smith, 1st Baronet
General Sir Lionel Smith, 1st Baronet GCB GCH was a British diplomat, colonial administrator, and soldier.His mother was noted writer and feminist Charlotte Turner Smith....

, Governor of Jamaica from 1836 to 1839. The second Baronet assumed by Royal license the additional surname of Gordon in 1868 as his mother Isabella was the daughter of Eldred Curwen Pottinger
Eldred Pottinger
Eldred Pottinger , Anglo-Indian soldier and diplomatist, son of Thomas Pottinger of Mountpottinger, County Down, and Charlotte Moore. He was educated at Addiscombe Military Academy, and entered the Bombay Artillery in 1827...

 and his wife Anne, daughter of Robert Gordon.

Smith, later Smith-Gordon Baronets (1838)

  • Sir Lionel Smith, 1st Baronet
    Sir Lionel Smith, 1st Baronet
    General Sir Lionel Smith, 1st Baronet GCB GCH was a British diplomat, colonial administrator, and soldier.His mother was noted writer and feminist Charlotte Turner Smith....

    (1778-1842)
  • Sir Lionel Eldred Smith-Gordon, 2nd Baronet (1833-1905)
  • Sir Lionel Eldred Pottinger Smith-Gordon, 3rd Baronet (1857-1933)
  • Sir Lionel Eldred Pottinger Smith-Gordon, 4th Baronet (1889-1976)
  • Sir (Lionel) Eldred Peter Smith-Gordon, 5th Baronet (b. 1935)


The heir is Lionel George Eldred Smith-Gordon (b. 1964)
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