Neville Smith-Carington
British politician
Intro | British politician | |||
Places | United Kingdom Great Britain | |||
was | Politician | |||
Work field | Politics | |||
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Birth | 1878 | |||
Death | 7 October 1933 (aged 55 years) | |||
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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.