Smart in my family tree
English: nickname for a brisk or active person, from Middle English smart quick, prompt (Old English smeart stinging, painful, from smeortan to sting, hurt).
Variant: Smartman.
An English family called Smart claim to be descended from Sir John Smart, who was a Garter Knight in the reign of Edward IV (1461 - 1483). The religious poet Christopher Smart (1722 - 1771) was a member of this family.
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