Thomas Smith (mai ba da shawara)

Sir Thomas Smith (23 Disamba 1513 - 12 Agusta 1577) masanin Ingilishi ne, ɗan majalisa kuma diflomasiyya.

 Rayuwa ta farko 
An haife shi a Saffron Walden a Essex, Smith shi ne ɗan na biyu na John Smith na Walden da Agnes, 'yar John Charnock na Lancashire. An ce Smiths na Essex sun kasance zuriyar Sir Roger de Clarendon, ɗan ɗan Black Prince. Ya yi karatu a Kwalejin Queens, Cambridge, inda ya zama Fellow a 1530,  kuma, a 1533, an nada shi mai karatu ko farfesa. Ya koyar a makarantu kan falsafar halitta, da kuma Girkanci a Kwalejinsa. A shekara ta 1540, Smith ya tafi kasashen waje, kuma, bayan ya yi karatu a Faransa da Italiya kuma ya sami digiri a fannin shari'a a Jami'ar Padua, ya koma Cambridge a shekara ta 1542.

Ya jagoranci sake fasalin furcin Girkanci, ra'ayoyinsa an karɓa a duniya bayan babban gardama. Shi da abokinsa, Sir John Cheke, sune manyan malaman gargajiya na lokacin a Ingila. A watan Janairun 1543/44 an nada shi Farfesa na farko na Dokar Jama'a. Ya kasance mataimakin shugaban jami'ar a wannan shekarar. A shekara ta 1547, ya zama Provost na Kwalejin Eton da Dean na Carlisle Cathedral . 

Sir Thomas ya kasance farkon juyawa zuwa Furotesta, wanda ya kawo shi cikin shahararren lokacin da Edward VI ya zo kursiyin. A lokacin kariya na Edward Seymour, 1st Duke na Somerset, ya shiga rayuwar jama'a kuma an sanya shi Sakataren Gwamnati, kuma an tura shi kan wani muhimmin aikin diflomasiyya zuwa Brussels. A shekara ta 1548, an ba shi lambar yabo. A lokacin da Sarauniya Maryamu I hau mulki ya rasa dukkan ofisoshinsa, amma a lokacin mulkin 'yar'uwarta, Elizabeth I, an yi masa aiki sosai a harkokin jama'a.

An mayar da shi a matsayin memba na majalisar dokoki na Liverpool a shekara ta 1559. Ya bayyana a fili cewa ya goyi bayan sulhu na addini da Confessions of Westminster (1560), yana zaune a kwamitoci biyu na Bincike. Lokacin da kwararren mai kula da ɗan Sarkin Sweden ya ziyarci Westminster, an tura shi a 1562 a matsayin jakada zuwa Faransa a matsayin mai basira na diflomasiyya; ya kasance a Faransa daga Satumba 1562 tare da ƙwararren wakilin Sir Nicholas Throckmorton. 

 Ƙasar da ta gaza a Ireland 
A shekara ta 1571, Elizabeth ta Ɗaya ta ba Smith fili mai  na Gabashin Ulster . Za a yi amfani da filayen don dasa mazauna Ingila a ƙoƙarin iko da yankunan da yankin Clandeboye O'Neill ya yi iƙirarin mallaka don haka ya mallaki 'yan asalin Irish. Tallafin ya haɗa da duk yankin da aka sani a yau da North Down da Ards, ban da ƙarshen kudu na yankin Ards wanda dangin Anglo-Norman Savage ke iko da shi.

Abin takaici ga Smith, shugaban Clandeboye O'Neill, Sir Brian MacPhelim, wanda Elizabeth ta ba shi daraja a 'yan shekaru da suka gabata, ya karanta littafin da ya buga don tallata sabbin ƙasashensa. Da yake fushi da abin da ya gani a matsayin "rashin hankali" a cikin shirya shirye-shiryen mulkin mallaka na yankunan da ba a daidaita su ba da O'Neill ya yi ikirarin, sai ya ƙonewa dukkan manyan gine-gine a yankin. Masu mallakar sun ki amincewa, amma ba za su iya yin komai ba. Wannan ya sa ya zama da wahala ga gonar ta riƙe. Sa'an nan kuma kaddamar da hare-hare a kan waɗannan mazauna Ingila na farko lokacin da suka isa, O'Neills sun ƙone ƙasar da Smith zai bunkasa, ƙone masallatai, masallatai da majami'u, kuma sun bar Clandeboye "cikakken lalacewa da rashin mazauna".

Smith, wanda kuma ya kasance memba na majalisar dokokin Essex a cikin 1571 da 1572, ya mutu a ranar 12 ga watan Agusta 1577 a Essex)" Hill Hall a Essex . 

 Aure da magada 
Smith ya yi aure sau biyu. Da farko ya auri Elizabeth Carkeke, 'yar mai buga littattafai ta London, Afrilu 15, 1548; ta mutu a shekara ta 1553. . Aure na biyu, wanda ya faru a ranar 23 ga Yuli, 1554,  ya kasance ga Philippa Wilford, gwauruwar Sir John Hampden na Great Hampden, Buckinghamshire, kuma 'yar ɗan kasuwa na London Henry Wilford. .Richardson states that she was the daughter of John Wilford, a gentleman, of London. . Ta mutu a ranar 15 ga Yuni 1578.
Smith ba shi da wata matsala ta kowane aure, kodayake yana da ɗa guda mai suna Thomas, wanda aka kashe a lokacin da aka yi nasarar Ards. Magadansa sune ƙaramin ɗan'uwansa, George, da ɗan George, Sir William Smith (ya mutu 12 Disamba 1626) na Theydon Mount, Essex . . Yar Sir William Smith, Frances Smith, ta auri Sir Matthew Brend, mai mallakar ƙasar da aka gina gidan wasan kwaikwayo na farko da na biyu.; . Edward de Vere, 17th Earl na Oxford, an haife shi a gidan Smith kuma ya kula da iliminsa na farko.Nelson, Alan H. (2003), Monstrous Adversary: the life of Edward de Vere,17th Earl of Oxford, Liverpool University Press, , p. 25.

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