page_title: Sir George Smith, 1st Baronet
section_title: Marriages & issue
hierarchical_section_title: Sir George Smith, 1st Baronet / Marriages & issue
caption_attribution_description: English: Miniature portrait of Sir George Smith, 2nd Baronet (1753-1808), by John Smart, 1780
context_page_description: Sir George Smith, 1st Baronet of Smith House, Angel Row, Nottingham and of Stoke Hall in the parish of East Stoke in Nottinghamshire, was a member of the Smith family of bankers, who established Smith's Bank in Nottingham in 1658. He was created a baronet "of East Stoke in the County of Nottingham", a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain, on 31 October 1757.
context_section_description: He married twice:
  Firstly to Mary Howe (1726-1761), daughter and sole heiress of Major William Howe (1699-1733) by his wife Elizabeth Pauncefote, one of the two  daughters and co-heiresses of William Pauncefote (d.1711) of Carswalls in Newent, and of Preston, near Dymock, both in Gloucestershire. Elizabeth's sister and co-heiress Sarah Pauncefote was the wife of William Bromley (d.1769) of Abberley Hall near Stourport-on-Severn in Worcestershire. His father-in-law Major William Howe was the son of Lieutenant-General Emanuel Scrope Howe (c.1663-1709) (the fourth son of John Grubham Howe (1625–1679) of Langar Hall in Nottinghamshire, the younger son of Sir John Howe, 1st Baronet) by his wife Ruperta, the illegitimate daughter of Prince Rupert of the Rhine, grandson of King James I. By his first wife he had issue, of whom only one survived:
  Sir George Pauncefote-Bromley, 2nd Baronet (1753–1808), High Sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1775. In 1778 he assumed by Royal licence the surname and arms of Bromley in lieu of his patronymic and in 1803 he assumed by Royal licence the surname of Pauncefote in addition to that of Bromley, having inherited or purchased the outstanding moities of his maternal estates of Carswalls and Preston from his mother's childless first-cousin Robert Bromley (d.1803) of Abberley. Robert Bromley (d.1803) thus disposed of his maternal estates to the descendant of his mother's sister, but his paternal estate of Abberley he bequeathed to his illegitimate kinsman Col. Henry Bromley (c.1803-1836), a  Member of Parliament for Worcester 1806-7, illegitimate son of a certain William Bromley. In 1778 he married Esther Curzon, who brought with her a large dowry, a daughter of Assheton Curzon, 1st Viscount Curzon (1730-1820) of Hagley Hall in Staffordshire. However by 1782 it had become clear to his wife that he was homosexual: Lady Bromley observed an increasing impertinent familiar behaviour of Sr George Bromley to his male servants, but inspecting (suspecting) as she was of the cause, it past on for some time until his conduct discovered evident proof to her of a strong propensity to the vice of sodomitical practices he separated himself from her bed grew less attentive and soon almost entirely alienated his affections, if he ever entertained any, for her, and directed all his thoughts and actions to his favourite male servants spending the whole of his time with them in his study or in amusements under the pretences of fishing and having one constantly to sleep in the same room with him. Following the complaint of one of his male servants, he was tried at Nottingham Assizes in 1791 and was convicted for assault and attempted sodomy and was jailed for 2 years, and was divorced by his wife. By his wife he had a son and heir:
  Admiral Sir Robert Howe Bromley, 3rd Baronet (1778–1857)
  Secondly in 1768 he married Catherine Vyse (died 1786), a daughter of William Vyse of Lichfield, Archdeacon of Salop.
caption: Sir George Pauncefote-Bromley, 2nd Baronet (1753–1808), 1780 miniature by John Smart
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