page_title: Wilford
section_title: Notable Families
hierarchical_section_title: Wilford / Wilfordians / Notable Families
caption_attribution_description: English: Historical plaque on Smith's Bank in Nottingham, the oldest provincial bank in England.
context_page_description: Wilford is a village close to the centre of the city of Nottingham, UK. The village is bounded to the north and west by the River Trent and to the east by the embankment of the now closed Great Central Railway.
context_section_description: Iremonger:
  James Iremonger was an English cricketer and noted as one of the players most unlucky never to play Test cricket. James also played football for Nottingham Forest making his debut as a fullback in 1896 against Stoke City and earned 3 caps for England.
  Albert Iremonger was a football goalkeeper and county-class cricketer. He was widely regarded as one of the best goalkeepers of his time and is a local legend in his home county of Nottinghamshire. It is also believed Iremonger was the tallest player in the league at the time, measuring 6 ft 5in. He was landlord of The Ferry Inn until his death in 1958.
  Harry Iremonger was an English professional football goalkeeper who played in the Football League for Nottingham Forest. Iremonger fought with the 17th (Service) Battalion of the Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment) during the First World War.
  Albert Harvey Iremonger, born in 1920 to Albert, fought as a Sergeant-Pilot in the RAF. He was killed in action on 14 July 1943, aged 27, and is interred in the graveyard of St Wilfrid's Church, Wilford
   Smiths: 
  Abel Smith II (14 March 1717 – 12 July 1788) was a British Member of Parliament and one of the leading bankers of his time. He is the grandson of Thomas Smith the founder of Smith's Bank, believed to be the first bank to be formed outside London. He substantially increased the scale of the enterprise, opening banks in Lincoln and Hull and, most importantly, the London firm of Smith & Payne. His son, Samuel Smith, is believed to have constructed Wilford House on Clifton Lane where Abel later died in 1788, aged 71. By way of marriage, he was the uncle of William Wilberforce, the noted campaigner for the abolition of slavery.
  Abel Smith III was the second son of Abel Smith II, a Nottingham banker and Member of Parliament. Abel was elected Member of Parliament for Nottingham; however, he died only three months later.
  Robert Smith, 1st Baron Carrington was the third son of Abel Smith (1717–1788), a wealthy Nottingham banker and Member of Parliament. He succeeded his elder brother Abel as MP for Nottingham. He was reelected for Nottingham in 1780, 1784, 1790 and 1796. In 1796, he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Carrington, of Bulcote Lodge. The following year he was made Baron Carrington, of Upton in the County of Nottingham, in the Peerage of Great Britain, and had to vacate his seat in the House of Commons.
  Samuel Smith was the fourth son of Abel Smith II, a wealthy Nottingham banker and Member of Parliament. Smith entered Parliament in 1788 as member for St Germans, and was an MP for the next 44 years, also representing Leicester (1790–1818), Midhurst (1818–1820) and Wendover (1820–1832). In 1826, being the longest continually-serving MP, he became Father of the House.
  George Smith was the fifth son of Abel Smith II, a wealthy Nottingham banker and Member of Parliament. Smith entered Parliament in 1791 as member for Lostwithiel, and also represented Midhurst and Wendover in a parliamentary career spread over forty years.
  John Smith was the sixth son of Abel Smith II, a wealthy Nottingham banker and Member of Parliament. Smith served as a Tory Member of Parliament for Wendover from 1802 to 1806 and later represented Nottingham from 1806 to 1818, Midhurst from 1818 to 1830, Chichester from 1830 to 1831, and Buckinghamshire from 1831 to 1835.
  Henry Smith (1794-1874) was the third son of Samuel Smith. He is known for building the Infant School, located on Main Road in Wilford, and was High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire in 1841.
caption: Plaque on Smith's Bank in Nottingham
exif: {"Image Make": "Apple", "Image Model": "iPhone 4", "Image XResolution": "72", "Image YResolution": "72", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "5.0", "Image DateTime": "2011:10:30 15:58:08", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered", "Image ExifOffset": "234", "GPS GPSLatitudeRef": "N", "GPS GPSLatitude": "[52, 5719/100, 0]", "GPS GPSLongitudeRef": "W", "GPS GPSLongitude": "[1, 449/50, 0]", "GPS GPSAltitudeRef": "0", "GPS GPSAltitude": "37960/517", "GPS GPSTimeStamp": "[16, 11, 800]", "GPS GPSImgDirectionRef": "T", "GPS GPSImgDirection": "99088/687", "Image GPSInfo": "556", "Image CustomRendered": "2", "Image ExposureMode": "Auto Exposure", "Image WhiteBalance": "Auto", "Image SceneCaptureType": "Standard", "EXIF ExposureTime": "1/50", "EXIF FNumber": "14/5", "EXIF ExposureProgram": "Program Normal", "EXIF ISOSpeedRatings": "80", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0221", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2011:10:30 15:58:08", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2011:10:30 15:58:08", "EXIF ComponentsConfiguration": "Y", "EXIF ShutterSpeedValue": "5876/1041", "EXIF ApertureValue": "4281/1441", "EXIF BrightnessValue": "6886/1577", "EXIF MeteringMode": "Pattern", "EXIF Flash": "Flash did not fire", "EXIF FocalLength": "77/20", "EXIF FlashPixVersion": "0100", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "1936", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "2592", "EXIF SensingMethod": "One-chip color area"}