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John Smyth (other)
John Smyth may refer to: *John Smyth (English theologian) (1554–1612), considered the earliest Baptist *John Smyth (barrister) (1941–2018), British QC * John Smyth (footballer) (born 1970), Irish former professional footballer *John Smyth (Master of Pembroke) (1744–1809), clergyman and Master of Pembroke College, Oxford *John Smyth (minister) (1796–1860), Scottish minister in the Free Church of Scotland * John Smyth (priest) (died 1704), Anglican archdeacon in Ireland *John Smyth (sculptor) (c. 1773–1840), Irish sculptor *John Smyth (snooker referee) (1928–2007) *John Smyth (1748–1811), British member of parliament for Pontefract *John George Smyth (1815–1869), Conservative member of parliament for the City of York *John Henry Greville Smyth, English naturalist and collector *John Henry Smyth, British member of parliament for Cambridge University *John Paterson Smyth (1852–1932), Canadian Anglican priest, Archdeacon of Montreal *John Rowland Smyth (1803–1873), Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Smyth (English Theologian)
John Smyth (c. 1554 – c. 28 August 1612) was an English Anglican, Baptist, then Mennonite minister and a defender of the principle of religious liberty. Early life Smyth is thought to have been the son of John Smyth, a yeoman of Sturton-le-Steeple, Nottinghamshire. He was educated locally at the grammar school in Gainsborough and in Christ's College, Cambridge, where he became a Fellow in 1594. Smyth was ordained as an Anglican priest in 1594 in England. Ministry He preached in the city of Lincoln in 1600 to 1602. In 1607, he broke with the Church of England and left for Holland where he, Thomas Helwys and his small congregation began to study the Bible ardently. He briefly returned to England. In the beginning, Smyth was closely aligned with his Anglican heritage. As time passed, his views evolved. Smyth's education at Cambridge included the "trivium" and "quadrivium" which included a heavy emphasis upon Aristotelian logic and metaphysics. Smyth's evolving eccles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John George Smyth (1815–1869)
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. 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. His younger brother, Henry Smyth, was an Army officer and the grandfather of Sir John Smyth, 1st Baronet, recipient of the Victoria Cross The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest and most prestigious award of the British honours system. It is awarded for valour "in the presence of the enemy" to members of the British Armed Forces and may be awarded posthumously. It was previously .... 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. They had four daughters. Refere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ferdinand Smyth Stuart
John Ferdinand Smyth Stuart (1745 – 20 December 1814), known until 1793 as John Ferdinand Smyth and mostly after that as Ferdinand Smyth Stuart, was a Scottish-born American loyalist and physician who claimed to be a great-grandson of King Charles II. As the author of ''A Tour in the United States of America'' (1784), he used the name John Ferdinand Dalziel Smyth. Leaving America during the Revolutionary War, Stuart spent the rest of his life in England and the West Indies. Background and early life Stuart was born in Scotland in 1745 and began life there as John Smyth or John Ferdinand Smyth. He later wrote that he was the son of R. Wentworth Smyth, a gentleman who had fought in the Jacobite rising of 1715 and also the later one of 1745. According to Stuart's account, in 1744 his elderly father married Maria Julia Dalziel, a widow of fifteen, as his second wife. He reported that his mother was a granddaughter of General James Crofts, a natural son of the Duke of Monmou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Smyth, 1st Baronet
Brigadier Sir John George Smyth, 1st Baronet, (24 October 1893 – 26 April 1983), often known as Jackie Smyth, was a British Indian Army officer and a Conservative Member of Parliament. Although a recipient of the Victoria Cross, his military career ended in controversy. Early life and education Smyth was born in 1893 in Teignmouth, Devon, the son of William John Smyth (1869–1893), a member of the Indian Civil Service, and Lilian May Clifford. His grandfather was Army officer Henry Smyth, who was the second 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. His great-uncle John George Smyth was an MP for the City of York. Smyth was educated at Dragon School, Repton, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.Smart, p. 292 Military career After passing out from Sandhurst, Smyth was commissioned as a second lieute ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Rowland Smyth
Colonel Sir John Rowland Smyth (1803 — 14 May 1873) was an Anglo-Irish officer in the British Army who saw service in British India. Early life and education Smyth was born at Ballynatray House, Templemichael, County Waterford, the fifth and youngest son of Grice Smyth and his wife, Mary Brodrick Mitchell. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He had three sisters, including Gertrude, who married William Hughes, 1st Baron Dinorben, and Penelope, who eloped with HRH Charles Ferdinand, Prince of Capua. Career Smyth was commissioned as a Cornet (military rank), cornet into the on 5 July 1821 and, promoted to Lieutenant on 26 May 1825, he fought at the Siege of Bharatpur, Capture of Bharatpur later that year. He was made a Captain on 22 April 1826, and transferred to the 32nd (Cornwall) Regiment of Foot. After 10 years with the 32nd he moved to the Carabiniers (6th Dragoon Guards), 6th Dragoon Guards, before being given a year-long leave of absence in 1830 to serve a prison ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Paterson Smyth
John Paterson Smyth (1852–1932) was an Anglican priest, academic and author. Paterson Smyth was born in Killarney on 2 February 1852. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He was ordained deacon in 1880; and priest in 1881. He served curacies at Lisburn Cathedral and Harold's Cross. He was Professor of Pastoral theology at TCDfrom 1902 to 1907. In 1907 he emigrated to Canada. He was Rector Rector (Latin for the member of a vessel's crew who steers) may refer to: Style or title *Rector (ecclesiastical), a cleric who functions as an administrative leader in some Christian denominations *Rector (academia), a senior official in an edu ... of St George, Montreal from 1907 until 1926. He was Archdeacon of Montreal from 1924 until 1926. He died on 14 February 1932. Books * 1902 ''The Bible for Home and School'' * 1911 ''The Gospel of the Hereafter'' * 1915 ''The men who die in battle'' * 1922 ''A People's life of Christ'' * 1923 ''On the rim of the world'' Refere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Henry Smyth
John Henry Smyth MP (20 March 1780 – 20 October 1822) was a Whig member of Parliament for Cambridge University from 9 June 1812 until his death. Personal life and education Smyth was educated at Eton College and then Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied Classics, and the Middle Temple. Smyth inherited Heath Hall, Wakefield, Yorkshire from his father John Smyth (1748–1811), MP of Pontefract from 1783 to 1807. His mother was Lady Georgiana, eldest daughter of Augustus Henry FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton. John Henry married Sarah Caroline Ibbetson, daughter of Henry, on 5 July 1810, but she died the following year on 29 May aged just 25. Three years later on 18 April 1814, he was remarried to his cousin Lady Elizabeth Anne FitzRoy, daughter of his uncle, George FitzRoy, 4th Duke of Grafton. They had two sons and four daughters: his eldest son was John George Smyth, a Conservative MP for City of York (1847–1865), while his second son, Henry Smyth, was an Army of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Henry Greville Smyth
Sir John Henry Greville Smyth, 1st Baronet (2 January 1836 – 27 September 1901) was an English naturalist and collector of natural history specimens. He is best known for his large private collection of mammals, birds, and insects kept at his stately home of Ashton Court in Bristol. On his death his wife, Lady Emily Greville Smyth, donated the bulk of the collection to the Bristol Natural History Museum, now known as Bristol Museum and Art Gallery. Life John Henry Greville Upton was born in Bath, Somerset on 2 January 1836, the second son of Thomas Upton Esq. He was educated at Eton College Eton College () is a public school in Eton, Berkshire, England. It was founded in 1440 by Henry VI under the name ''Kynge's College of Our Ladye of Eton besyde Windesore'',Nevill, p. 3 ff. intended as a sister institution to King's College, ... and Christ Church, Oxford, and on the death of his grandmother in 1852 succeeded to the Ashton Court estate. That year he took the nam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Smyth (1748–1811)
John Smyth (1748–1811) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1783 to 1807. Early life Smyth was the son of John Smyth of Heath Hall, Heath, West Yorkshire and his wife Bridget Foxley, daughter of Benjamin Foxley of London. He was educated at Westminster School and was admitted at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1766. He married in 1778 Lady Georgiana, eldest daughter of Augustus Henry FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton. Political career Smyth served in Parliament as Member of Parliament 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. Later life and legacy Smyth died 12 February 1811 in London. He and his wife Georgiana had four sons and two daughters. Their son *John Henry Smyth, of Heath Hall (1780-1822), member of parliament for Cambridge, had issue ** John George Smyth, of Heath Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Smyth (barrister)
John Jackson Smyth, QC (27 June 1941 – 11 August 2018) was a British barrister and recorder, who was also involved in Christian ministry. In early 2017, reports emerged that he had performed sadistic beatings on schoolboys and young men who regarded him as a spiritual father. Anglican Bishop Andrew Watson disclosed that, as a young man, he was a victim. Smyth died while under investigation, so criminal charges were never brought against him, but an independent review concluded that he abused at least 13 people, and the abuse was also emotional and spiritual, as well as physical. Personal life Smyth was born in Canada on 27 June 1941. He attended Strathcona School, Calgary. His family subsequently moved to England, where he was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and Trinity College, Bristol. During the 1970s and early 1980s, he lived in Winchester while practising law in London. He moved to Zimbabwe in 1984, and later to South Africa. Smyth died on 11 August 2018 at h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Smyth (snooker Referee)
John Smyth may refer to: *John Smyth (English theologian) (1554–1612), considered the earliest Baptist *John Smyth (barrister) (1941–2018), British QC * John Smyth (footballer) (born 1970), Irish former professional footballer *John Smyth (Master of Pembroke) (1744–1809), clergyman and Master of Pembroke College, Oxford *John Smyth (minister) (1796–1860), Scottish minister in the Free Church of Scotland * John Smyth (priest) (died 1704), Anglican archdeacon in Ireland *John Smyth (sculptor) (c. 1773–1840), Irish sculptor *John Smyth (snooker referee) (1928–2007) *John Smyth (1748–1811), British member of parliament for Pontefract *John George Smyth (1815–1869), Conservative member of parliament for the City of York *John Henry Greville Smyth, English naturalist and collector *John Henry Smyth, British member of parliament for Cambridge University *John Paterson Smyth (1852–1932), Canadian Anglican priest, Archdeacon of Montreal *John Rowland Smyth (1803–1873), Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Smyth (sculptor)
John Smyth (1776 – 1840) was an Irish sculptor. The son of sculptor Edward Smyth (1749–1812), John Smyth was trained at the Dublin Society's school, and worked with his father at Montgomery Street (now Foley Street) in Dublin. One of his first public works was a monument to John Ball in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. He assisted his father, Edward, with a number of sculptures at Parliament House (now Bank of Ireland), the King's Inns, and with decorative plaster and stonework at the Chapel Royal of Dublin Castle. He also sculpted the statues of Mercury, Fidelity, and Hibernia for the pediment of the General Post Office, Dublin (c.1814). He repaired the equestrian statue of William III (William of Orange) in College Green after it was blown up in 1836. Other pieces by John Smyth were sculpted for Dublin's Richmond Bridge (c.1816; now O'Donovan Rossa Bridge), and several public buildings and churches in the capital. In 1818, Smyth was commissioned to produce a bust of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
