Smart Lethieullier

Smart Lethieullier (3 November 1701 – 27 August 1760) was an English antiquary.

Lethieullier was born on 3 November 1701 at Aldersbrook Manor House, Little Ilford, Essex. His family was of Spanish Netherlands Huguenot origin, and had come to London as refugees in 1605. His grandfather, Sir John Lethieullier (1632/3–1719), had succeeded in trade, and had risen to become Sheriff of London in 1674–5, and owner of the Aldersbrook estate (purchased 1693). Sir John's son, also named John (d. 1737), married Elizabeth Smart, and Smart was their second son. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Oxford, from where he graduated MA in 1723.

Lethieullier subsequently travelled in France, Italy, Germany, and throughout Britain, and developed a passion for the study and collection of antiquities and fossils. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society (1724), the Society of Antiquaries (1725), and a member of the Spalding Gentlemen's Society (1733). He developed a wide network of antiquarian and scientific friends and contacts, including Francesco Ficoroni, Bernard de Montfaucon, Richard Pococke, Andrew Ducarel, Francis Wise, Martin Folkes, Samuel Gale, Richard Mead and Peter Collinson.

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