William Smallman was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons

House of Commons of England

The House of Commons of England was the lower house of the Parliament of England from its development in the 14th century to the union of England and Scotland in 1707, when it was replaced by the House of Commons of Great Britain...

  in 1640.

Smallman was the son of Francis Smallman

Francis Smallman

Francis Smallman was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1621 and 1626.Smallman was the son of Francis Smallman and his wife Elizabeth Hopton. He was a lawyer and acquired Kinnersley Castle...

 and his wife Susan Clarke, widow of John Clarke of London, and daughter of Fabian of Essex. His father was a lawyer who acquired Kinnersley Castle

Kinnersley Castle

Kinnersley Castle in Herefordshire, England is one of the many marches castles along the Welsh Borders.The Castle of Kinnersley, on the A4112 east of Eardisley, was originally a stone structure, thought to have been built during the reign of Henry I of England...

 

In April 1640, Smallman was elected Member of Parliament

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 for Leominster

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 in the Short Parliament

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. Smallman was one of the "Nine Worthies" - nine justices who formed the royalist leadership in Herefordshire in the summer of 1642. The other "worthies" were Sir William Croft, Wallop Brabazon, Thomas Wigmore of Shobden, Thomas Price of Wisterdon, Fitzwilliam Conningsby,
Henry Lingen

Henry Lingen

Sir Henry Lingen , Lord of Sutton, Lingen and Stoke Edith, was a Royalist military commander in Herefordshire during the English Civil War, and later a Member of Parliament.-Ancestry:...

, William Rudhall and John Scudamore

John Scudamore, 1st Viscount Scudamore

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. Smallman died in 1643.

Smallman married Lucy Whitney daughter of Sir Robert Whitney on 29 September 1631 at St. Giles Cripplegate. They had daughters Constance and Lucy who married James Pytts of Kyre, inheriting Kinnersley. Smallman's widow re-married in about 1648, to John Booth, son of John and Margery (Waiden) Booth of Durham.