Cusack-Smith baronets


The Smith, later Cusack-Smith Baronetcy, of Tuam in the King's County, was a title in the Baronetage of Ireland. It was created on 28 August 1799 for Sir Michael Smith, 1st Baronet, who was subsequently appointed Master of the [Rolls in Ireland]. Smith married as his first wife Maryanne Cusack of Ballyronan, County Wicklow. Their son, the second Baronet, assumed the additional surname of Cusack. He served as Solicitor-General for Ireland between 1800 and 1801, and as Baron of the Court of Exchequer (Ireland) from 1801 to 1836. The fourth baronet published a work on warships. The title became extinct on the death of the sixth Baronet in 1970.
The family seat was Newtown in County Offaly.
Thomas Cusack-Smith, younger son of the second Baronet, served Attorney-General for Ireland and as Master of the Rolls in Ireland.
Motto: ''En Dieu est mon Espoir''

Smith, later Cusack-Smith baronets, of Tuam (1799)