page_title: John Smith (Wendover MP)
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: John Smith (Wendover MP) / Biography / Early life
context_page_description: John Smith was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1806 to 1835 and a banker.
context_section_description: John Smith was born on 6 September 1767. He was the sixth son of Abel Smith II (1717-1788), a Nottingham banker who was a Member of Parliament for Aldborough, St Ives, and St Germans, and the brother of Robert Smith, 1st Baron Carrington. He lived at Blendon Hall in Kent and finally at Dale Park in Sussex. There is a fine memorial to him in Chichester Cathedral, comprising his recumbent effigy atop a chest tomb set within a gothic-arched niche.
caption: Dale Park, Sussex (John Preston Neale, 1829)
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