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'''Joshua Smith''' (1732 – 20 March 1819) was an [[England|English]] politician. He was [[Member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[Devizes (UK Parliament constituency)|Devizes]] in [[Wiltshire]] from 1788 to 1818.
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'''Joshua Smith''' (1732 – 20 March 1819) was an English merchant and politician.
 
He was born the son of John Smith, a Lambeth merchant and became a timber merchant himself. He lived at [[HM Prison Erlestoke|Erlestoke Park]], near Devizes, Wiltshire. He became a director of the [[East India Company]] in 1771, and was [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[Devizes (UK Parliament constituency)|Devizes]] from 1788 to 1818, although not an active member.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Thorne |first=R. G. |title=SMITH, Joshua (1732-1819), of Erlestoke Park, nr. Devizes, Wilts. |url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/smith-joshua-1732-1819 |access-date=13 March 2023 |website=History of Parliament Online}}</ref>
 
In 1766 he married Sarah,<ref name=":1" /> the daughter of Nathaniel Gilbert, judge and member of the legislative council of [[Antigua]], with whom he had four daughters. Their eldest daughter Maria married in 1787 [[Charles Compton, 1st Marquess of Northampton]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/compton-charles-1760-1828|title=COMPTON, Charles, Lord Compton (1760-1828)|last=Namier|first=Lewis|authorlink=Lewis Namier|website=History of Parliament Online|access-date=9 October 2017}}</ref>
 
Smith died on 20 March 1819.<ref name=":1" /> Subsequently, his Erlestoke seat was sold to [[George Watson-Taylor]]. Smith's library was sold at auction by Edward Jeffery on 25 May 1820 and eight following days, in 1671 lots. Two copies of the catalogue exist at [[Cambridge University Library]],<ref>{{Citation |last=Jeffery |first=Edward |title=A catalogue of the valuable and extensive library of books, late the property of Joshua Smith, Esq., M.P., of Stoke Park, Devizes, deceased: which will be sold by auction ... on Thursday, May 25, 1820, and eight following days (Sunday excepted) |date=1820 |url=https://idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk/permalink/f/t9gok8/44CAM_ALMA21421050290003606
|access-date=14 March 2023}}</ref> one of them annotated in a contemporary hand "offered to G. Watson Taylor Esq. MP for £2500 – sold for upwards of £4000", suggesting the library was offered to Watson Taylor too, but that he declined to acquire it.
 
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