Charles Culling Smith

Charles Culling Smith, sometimes called Culling Charles Smith ( – 26 May 1853) was a British politician and courtier. Family He was the son of Charles Smith, Governor of Madras, and nephew of Sir Culling Smith, 1st Baronet. On 2 August 1799 he married Lady Anne Fitzroy (13 March 1768 – 16 December 1844), widow of the Hon. Henry Fitzroy (13 September 1765 – 19 March 1794; fourth son of Charles Fitzroy, 1st Baron Southampton) and only daughter of Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington. By this marriage he gained two stepdaughters: Anne Caroline Fitzroy, died 16 December 1835 Georgiana Frederica Fitzroy (3 October 1792 – 11 May 1821), married 25 July 1814 Henry Somerset, Marquess of Worcester, with two daughters. His marriage to Lady Anne produced a further two children, a daughter and a son: Emily Frances Smith (3 March 1800 – 2 October 1889), married 29 June 1822 her half-sister's widower Lord Worcester, who succeeded his father as 7th Duke of Beaufort in 1835. They had one son and six daughters. Frederick William Culling Smith ( - died 19 June 1828), a godson of the Duke of York. He was made a Page of Honour on 13 March 1812 and commissioned as a cornet in the 2nd Dragoon Guards on 22 April 1819. He transferred into the Coldstream Guards as an ensign on 18 January 1820 and reached the rank of lieutenant in that regiment before promotion to the Royal Horse Guards as a captain on 2 January 1823. On 1 August 1826 he was promoted to the rank of major of infantry on the unattached list, and joined the 80th Regiment of Foot on 17 January 1828. He died at Malta later that year, aged twenty-six.