John Smyth (1748–1811)
John Smyth (1748–1811) was a British politician. He was an MP for Pontefract from 1783 to 1807.[1]
John Smyth features in this group portrait of the Dilettanti Society. The others are: Sir William Hamilton, Stephen Payne-Gallwey, Walter Spencer-Stanhope, Sir John Taylor, Bart., Richard Thompson and Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn.[2] Hamilton (centre, with his Order of the Bath star visible) is showing the vase to Smyth on the right.[3]
Life
The son of John Smyth of Heath Hall, Yorkshire, he was educated at Westminster School. He matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1766.[1]
Smyth served in Parliament as member for Pontefract, from 1783 to 1807. He was a Lord of the Admiralty, from 1791 to 1794, and a Lord of the Treasury, from 1794 1802. He was Master of the Mint from 1802 to 1804, and a Commissioner of the Board of Trade in 1805.[1]
Smyth died 12 February 1811 in London.[1]
Family
He married in 1778, Lady Georgiana, eldest daughter of Augustus Henry FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Smyth, John (SMT766J2)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ↑ National Trust, Members of the Dilettanti Society (after Sir Joshua Reynolds).
- ↑ apollo-magazine.com, Reynolds and Leonardo.
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "P" (part 2)
- Lee, Stephen M. "Smyth, John (1748–1811), politician". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/64134. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)