Thomas Smythe (customer)

Family

Career

Marriage and issue

• Andrew Smythe, eldest son, who died an infant.
• Sir John Smythe, second son, of Ostenhanger, in 1576 married Elizabeth Fineaux.
• Sir Thomas Smythe, who married firstly, Judith Culverwell, the daughter of Richard Culverwell; secondly Joan Hobbs, the daughter of William Hobbs; and thirdly, Sarah Blount, the daughter of William Blount. He had no issue by his first two marriages; by his third marriage he had three sons and a daughter. His widow, Sarah, married Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester.
• Henry Smythe of Corsham married Elizabeth Owen.
• Sir Richard Smythe, also said to have been of Leeds Castle, who married firstly Elizabeth Scott, the daughter of Sir Thomas Scott, and in 1589 married Jane White.
• Sir Robert Smythe of Leeds Castle, fourth son, who married Elizabeth Scott, the daughter of Thomas Scott of Scott's Hall, Kent.
• Symon Smythe, killed at the siege of Cadiz in 1596. Also said to be of Highgate, and to have married Ann Lynford.
• Elizabeth Smythe, who was unmarried at the time of Smythe’s death in 1591, and later married Sir Henry Fanshawe.
• Mary Smythe, who married Robert Davy or Davis of London, Receiver for Wales.
• Joan Smythe, who married Thomas Fanshawe, Esquire of Ware Park.
• Katherine Smythe, who married, at age sixteen, Sir Rowland Hayward, Lord Mayor of London in 1571, then Sir John Scott of Nettlestead, Kent, son of Sir Thomas Scott of Scot's Hall in Kent and Elizabeth Baker of Sissinghurst; her mural monument survives in Nettlestead Church. Thirdly to Sir Richard Sandys.
• Alice Smythe, who married William Harris, also said to have been Sir William Harris of Crixes, Woodham, Essex.
• Ursula Smythe, who married William Butler. Also said to have married Simon Harding of London, then secondly marrying William Boteler of Bedford.