John Spencer Smith

(1769-1845)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Smith, John Spencer, 1769-1845 NRA: Smith John Spencer (c 1770-1845) MP Diplomat LBT ID: JoSmith1845 VIAF ID: 7432101 LOC ID: n92074606	B/BAP: 1769-09-11 DIED: 1845-06-05
SOURCES: William Sidney Smith papers, Rice University; Virtual International Authority File; historyofparliamentonline.org; LOC Name Authority File
The brother of Sir Sidney Smith and husband of Byron's lover Constance Spencer Smith; after military service he was British ambassador to the Porte at Constantinople in the early 1790s and MP for Dover (1802-06).
REFERENCES TO John Spencer Smith: “Moore’s Notices of Lord Byron” in Monthly Magazine NS 9 (February 1830) 183-97 Found 1: ¶ 36 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter III. Found 3: ¶ 43 ¶ 44 ¶ 46 Chapter II. Found 1: ¶ 61