John George Smyth
JP DL MP
Member of Parliament
for City of York
In office
28 August 1847 – 11 July 1865
Personal details
Born(1815-02-05)5 February 1815
Died10 June 1869(1869-06-10) (aged 54)
NationalityBritish
Political partyConservative
SpouseHon. Diana Bosville-Macdonald
Parents
  • John Henry Smyth (father)
  • Lady Elizabeth Anne FitzRoy (mother)

John George Smyth JP DL MP (5 February 1815 – 10 June 1869) was a Conservative member of Parliament for the City of York from August 28, 1847 to July 11, 1865.[1]

Smyth was the eldest son of John Henry Smyth (1780–1822), of Heath Hall, Wakefield, Yorkshire, a Whig MP for Cambridge University (1812–1822) and Lady Elizabeth Anne FitzRoy, daughter of George FitzRoy, 4th Duke of Grafton.[2] His younger brother, Henry Smyth, was an Army officer and the grandfather of Sir John Smyth, 1st Baronet, recipient of the Victoria Cross.[3]

Personal life

Smyth married the Honourable Diana Bosville Macdonald (12 April 1812 – 8 December 1880), daughter of Godfrey Macdonald, 3rd Baron Macdonald of Sleat, on 25 April 1837.[3] They had two sons (who both died young) and four daughters. One, Diana, married Henry Lascelles, 4th Earl of Harewood. Another, Louisa, married Sir John Thursby.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Disraeli, Benjamin; Gunn, John Alexander Wilson; Wiebe, Melvin George (1982). Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1852-1856. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9780802041371.
  2. ↑ Boase, Frederic (1965). Modern English biography: containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died between the years 1851-1900, with an index of the most interesting matter. Frank Cass. p. 1885. Retrieved 25 May 2019.
  3. 1 2 Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 3671. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
  4. ↑ Burke, Bernard (1886), A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland, vol. 2, p. 1692
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