Neville Smith-Carington

British politician
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroBritish politician
PlacesUnited Kingdom Great Britain
wasPolitician
Work fieldPolitics
Gender
Male
Birth1878
Death7 October 1933 (aged 55 years)
Education
Exeter College
The details

Biography

Neville Woodford Smith-Carington (1878 – 7 October 1933) was a British Member of Parliament.

Born at Ashby Folville Manor near Melton Mowbray, Smith-Carington was educated at Harrow College and Exeter College, Oxford. He became a barrister at the Inner Temple.

Smith-Carington stood for the Conservative Party in Loughborough at the January 1910 United Kingdom general election, but was not elected. He then stood in the 1923 Rutland and Stamford by-election, winning the seat, which he held until his death in 1933.

In his spare time, Smith-Carington had an interest in shire horses, and was president of the Shire Horse Society in 1931.

The contents of this page are sourced from Wikipedia article on 18 Sep 2020. The contents are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.