Jemina Durning Smith (1843–1901) was a British philanthropist. She was the daughter of the Manchester cotton merchant,

John Benjamin Smith John Benjamin Smith (7 February 1794 – 15 September 1879) was an English Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1847 to 1874. Life Smith was the son of Benjamin Smith, a merchant of Manchester. He was himself a merchant ...

, who in 1835 becoming the founding chairman of the

Anti-Corn Law League The Anti-Corn Law League was a successful political movement in Great Britain aimed at the abolition of the unpopular Corn Laws, which protected landowners’ interests by levying taxes on imported wheat, thus raising the price of bread at a tim ...

, and his wife Jemina Durning, who was an heiress from Liverpool. She paid for the

Durning Library Durning Library is a public lending library in Kennington, London. It is part of Lambeth Libraries in the London Borough of Lambeth and is in purpose-built Grade II listed building at 167 Kennington Lane, Kennington, London SE11. The Durnin ...

is a Grade II listed library at 167 Kennington Lane, Kennington, London SE11, designed by Sidney R. J. Smith, in the Gothic Revival style. She never married.

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