a scandalous relationship with Lady Dorothy, daughter of Horatio Walpole, 3rd Earl of Orford, and who married Margaret Lennox-Kincaid-Lennox, daughter of John Lennox-Kincaid-Lennox shortly before his death. After Smythe's death, she married Charles Bateman-Hanbury-Kincaid-Lennox. Philippa Eliza Sydney Smythe (1819–1854), who married Henry James Baillie (1803–1885), the Under-Secretary of State for India. Lionel Philip Thomas Henry Smythe (1821–1834), who died young of tuberculosis Louisa Ellen Frances Augusta Smythe (1823–1852), who married George Browne, 3rd Marquess of Sligo in 1847. Percy Ellen Algernon Frederick William Sydney Smythe (1825–1862), later the 8th Viscount Strangford, who married Emily Anne Beaufort (1826–1887). Ellen Sydney Smythe (d. 1852) After the death of his wife in 1826, Smythe had three children by Katherine Benham (1813–1872), the eldest of whom was the artist. Lionel Percy Smythe (1839–1918), the artist On his death on 29 May 1855, he was succeeded by his eldest son George Smythe, 7th Viscount Strangford, who was an active figure in the Young England movement of the early 1840s. After his death, Benham married William Morrison Wyllie, the artist with whom she had William Lionel Wyllie and Charles William Wyllie, also artists. Honours He was appointed Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB) in 1815 and Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Guelphic Order (GCH) in 1825. In February 1825, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society He translated the Rimas of Luís de Camões in 1825. A window in his family chapel in St. Mary's Church, Ashford, Kent, commemorates him, mentioning the monarchs whom he served and the countries to which he was dispatched. Descendants Through his eldest son with Benham, he was the grandfather of Minnie Smythe (1872–1955), also a painter. References Notes Sources 1780 births 1855 deaths Fellows of the Royal Society People educated at Harrow School Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Irish people of Dutch descent Viscounts in the Peerage of Ireland Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath Diplomatic peers Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Russia Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to the Ottoman Empire Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Portugal Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Sweden Peers of the United Kingdom created by George IV Philipse family