John Smith QC (13 September 1938-12 May 1994) was a Scottish politician who served as leader of the Labour Party from July 1992 until his sudden death from a heart attack on 12 May 1994.
John Smith (1825-1910) was the founder of the Edinburgh school of dentistry. He was born in Scotland, the son of a dentist, and took over the practice in 1851. Recognising the need for improved training, he founded the Edinburgh Dental Dispensary in 1860 and wrote the Handbook of Dental Anatomy and Surgery (1864). The Dispensary grew into the Edinburgh Dental Hospital and School by 1879. Smith was also a moderately successful playwright.
John Smith (1790-1824) was a missionary whose experiences in the West Indies attracted the attention of the anti-slavery campaigner, William Wilberforce.
Smith arrived in Demerara under the auspices of the London Missionary Society in March, 1817. He lived at plantation Le Resouvenir, where he preached at Bethel Chapel, primarily attended by African slaves.
On the night of 17 August 1823, about ten to twelve thousand slaves drawn from plantations on the East Coast of the Demerara colony rebelled, under the belief that their masters were concealing news of the slaves' emancipation.
Smith was subsequently charged with promoting discontent and dissatisfaction in the minds of the African slaves, exciting the slaves to rebel, and failing to notify the authorities that the slaves intended to rebel. For this, he was sentenced to death. Wilberforce stepped in to arrange a reprieve, but, by the time it arrived, Smith had already perished as a result of the awful conditions in jail. His death was a major step forward in the campaign to abolish slavery.
John William Patrick Smith (born March 7, 1951) is a Welsh Labour Party politician, and Member of Parliament (MP) for the Vale of Glamorgan.
Born in Penarth, Smith attended Penarth County Grammar School and then served for a while in the Royal Air Force. He was first elected to the seat in a 1989 by-election, lost it to the Conservatives in 1992 by a very narrow margin, and regained the seat in the 1997 general election. He was re-elected in 2001 and 2005, and served as a member of the Defence Select Committee in 2005.
John Smith (c. 1735 – July 30, 1824) was one of the first two U.S. Senators from the state of Ohio. He reluctantly resigned from the Senate under charges of alleged complicity in the Aaron Burr-Harman Blennerhassett conspiracy.
Little is known of his early life. He was born in either Virginia or Ohio Country around 1735. He prepared for the ministry, and was pastor in various Baptist congregations in Virginia and Ohio during the 1790s and then began a profitable business supplying military posts near Cincinnati, Ohio.
He was a member of the Northwest Territorial legislature 1799–1803 and a delegate to the Ohio state constitutional convention in 1802. He was a leader of a group that supported statehood in opposition to the Territorial Governor Arthur St. Clair. Upon the admission of Ohio as a State into the Union, he was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the United States Senate and served in the 8th, 9th and 10th Congresses (1803–1808).
While in the Senate, Smith continued his profitable trading ventures in Louisiana and West Florida and pursued numerous land investment schemes. In 1805, former Vice President Aaron Burr sought his support in organizing a military expedition against Spanish Florida. Although Smith claimed he had no interest in Burr's plot to force secession of Spanish territories, he agreed to provide supplies for the proposed expedition. When President Thomas Jefferson later issued an alert, charging that Burr's actual purpose was an invasion of Mexico, Smith responded patriotically by financing weapons to defend against the Burr expedition and delivering those weapons to New Orleans. These travels caused him to miss weeks of Senate sessions and led the Ohio legislature to charge him with dereliction of duty and to demand his resignation.
Although Smith ignored that demand, he found his troubles increasing as a court in Richmond, Virginia, indicted him in mid-1807 for participating in Burr's conspiracy. As he traveled to Richmond, he learned that the charges against him were dropped after the court acquitted Burr on a technicality.
But on December 31, 1807, a Senate committee chaired by John Quincy Adams recommended that Smith be expelled from the Senate. A trial was held in 1808, with Adams leading the attack. Smith was defended by Francis Scott Key and Robert Goodloe Harper, who argued that Smith may have been naive, but was not a traitor. The expulsion resolution fell one vote short of the required two-thirds majority. Smith resigned on April 25, the last day that Congress was in session for the year.
Smith had enjoyed a close friendship with President Thomas Jefferson early in his Senate career, though that relationship was ruined, along with Smith's political career, by his implication in the Burr treason. Smith was forced into bankruptcy and later moved to St. Francisville, Louisiana, where he died in 1824.
The History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County Ohio, published in 1894, indicates that Smith died in Hamilton County, Ohio on June 10, 1816, although this is apparently incorrect, since later sources http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000567 http://publications.ohiohistory.org/ohstemplate.cfm?action=detail&Page=004588.html&StartPage=68&EndPage=88&volume=45&newtitle=Volume%2045%20Page%2068 agree on his death in 1824.
John Smith was an English mathematician: He held the Savilian Chair of Geometry at the University of Oxford from 1766 to 1797.
John W. Smith (born August 9, 1965) was a successful amateur wrestler and is currently the head coach of wrestling at Oklahoma State University.
John Smith (b. August 1957) is the BBC Worldwide's Chief Executive Officer since June 2004.
He attended the Shelton Lock school (which became blank">Merrill College) in Derby. He later went to the _Harvard Business School. He worked for British Rail Engineering Limited, Sealink, Seaspeed Hovercraft, and other companies owned by the BR Group.
He joined the BBC in 1989, becoming the BBC's Finance Director in 1996. In April 2000, he became Director of Finance, Property & Business Affairs, adding Property, Procurement and Programme Rights to his portfolio.
In June 2004, he became the BBC's Chief Operating Officer.
He undertook the Commercial Review of all the BBC's commercial activities and was responsible in 2004 for the sale of BBC Technology to Siemens Business Services, and in 2005, he led the sale of BBC Broadcast to Creative Broadcast Services Limited, a Macquarie Company. This company became Red Bee Media.
In July 2004, John Smith took the helm at BBC Worldwide and was confirmed as CEO in March 2005.
He is a member of the BBC's Executive Board. He is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and the Royal Society of Arts (RSA). He was a Council Member between 1996-9 and became a vice-president of the Royal Television Society (RTS) in January 2006. He is a non-executive director of Severn Trent plc, and is Chairman of their Audit Committee. He won the blank">Accountancy Age Financial Director of the Year Award in 2001. He is a Member of the Accounting Standards Board, and the _HM Treasury spending_and_services/public_services_productivity_panel/pss_psp_members.cfm" target="_blank">Public Services Productivity Panel. In 2004, he received an honorary Fellowship from the _Royal Institute of British Architects (in the same year as John Prescott).
John Smith is a British comics writer best known for his work on 2000 AD and Crisis.
His work is characterised by intricate, sometimes obscure plots and an interest in taboos and the occult. This is told in an elliptic, fractured narrative style reminiscent of Iain Sinclair or the cut-up technique of William S. Burroughs. Other notable influences include Michael Moorcock, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Alan Moore and Noel Coward.
Smith's best-known character is Devlin Waugh, a flamboyantly gay exorcist, assassin and vampire working for the Vatican of the future, co-created with artist Sean Phillips for the Judge Dredd Megazine.
John Smith (b. 1952, London, England) is an avant garde filmmaker noted for his use of humour in exploring various themes that often play upon film spectator's conditioned assumptions of the medium. Noted works include The Girl Chewing Gum (1976), Om (1987), The Kiss (1999) and Blight (1999).
John Smith (22 September 1832 – 6 November 1911), was the fifth Presiding Patriarch of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). His father was Hyrum Smith, the older brother of Joseph Smith, Jr., the founder of Mormonism.
John was born in Kirtland, Ohio to Hyrum Smith and his first wife, Jerusha Barden Smith. This was during the early days of the Latter Day Saint movement, and he was among the first generation of children raised in the church. The office of Presiding Patriarch was initially created to honor Joseph Smith, Sr., the father of the religion's founder. Before his death in 1840, Joseph Smith, Sr. declared that the position should pass by Lineal Succession to his eldest son, Hyrum. Hyrum Smith at this time was one of the most influential members of the church and was widely seen as the most likely successor to its leadership should he outlive his brother. However, in 1844, both Hyrum and Joseph Smith were assassinated by a mob in Carthage, Illinois.
This event left the church leaderless. By consensus, it was expected that the title of Presiding Patriarch would pass to Hyrum Smith's eldest son, John. However, because John Smith was only 11 years of age at the time of his father's death, the position was instead claimed by two younger brothers of Joseph Smith, Sr.: first by William Smith and later by another John Smith, who was known to the church as "Uncle John". Meanwhile, Hyrum's son John Smith traveled with the family of Heber C. Kimball to Winter Quarters, Nebraska. In 1848, John Smith, along with Kimball, reached Salt Lake City, Utah to join Brigham Young, who had assumed leadership of the largest Latter Day Saint faction, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
In February, 1855, the younger John Smith succeeded his great uncle, "Uncle John" Smith as Presiding Patriarch of the LDS Church, following the latter's death. He became the longest-serving Presiding Patriarch, remaining in that position for fifty-six years, until his death in 1911. Among his accomplishments during this time were a mission to Scandinavia, begun in 1862. Following his death, he was succeeded by his grandson, Hyrum G. Smith. Smith died at and was buried in Salt Lake City.
Sir John Lindsay Eric Smith, CH, CBE (3 April 1923 - 28 February 2007) was a British banker, Conservative Member of Parliament, and Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire. He was involved with many architectural, industrial and maritime conservation charities. He founded the Landmark Trust in 1965.
John Smith (1939-1988) was a footballer, a West Ham Academy product who was born in Shoreditch, London. He made 136 appearances for the club between 1956 and 1960, playing right half and inside right. He scored 23 goals for the East London club before being transferred to Tottenham Hotspur. Smith played in the Swindon Town side which beat Arsenal in the 1969 League Cup Final.
At the time of his death he was the steward of McVite's social club in Park Royal, North West London.
John Smith (1655/6 - 1723) was an English politician, twice serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Smith's father was also called John Smith and he had a sister called Anne Smith, Lady Dashwood. He was educated St John's College, Oxford, was at the Middle Temple and was an MP from 1678. He married Anne, daughter of Sir Thomas Strickland, and had two daughters, Mary Smith and Anne Smith, Lady Grant. Smith was first appointed as Chancellor on June 2, 1699 until March 27, 1701. He served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1705 until serving again as Chancellor from April 22, 1708 until August 11, 1710. He was a moderate Whig.
John Smith (July 16, 1781 – May 23, 1854), known as "Uncle John", was an early leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
He was the younger brother of Joseph Smith, Sr., uncle of Joseph Smith, Jr. and Hyrum Smith, father of George A. Smith, grandfather of John Henry Smith, and great-grandfather of George Albert Smith.
He served as an assistant counselor to the First Presidency (September 3, 1837-June 27, 1844), and as Patriarch to the Church (January 1, 1849 – May 23, 1854). He was succeeded by his nephew, who was also named John Smith.
John Smith served as president of the stake in Lee County Iowa during the Nauvoo period. He was also the first president of the Salt Lake Stake, the first stake in Utah, and as such was the leader of the Latter-day Saints in Utah in the winter of 1847-8. Image:JohnGeorgeSmithsMonumentFront.jpg|Monument to four generations of a branch of the Smith family, prominent in LDS history Image:JohnGeorgeSmithsMonumentBack.jpg|Back of monument Image:JohnSmithb1781Grave.jpg|Headstone of John Smith
John Smith (1618-52) was an English educator, born at Achurch, Northamptonshire. He entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 1636, took his B.A. in 1640 and his M.A. in 1644, at which time he was chosen fellow of Queens' College. His health seems to have been precarious from the first. His labors were princepally confined to his office as teacher, for which he had remarkable qualifications. His preaching was with a rare degree of eloquence, which can still be felt in the Discourses (1660), which remain to us. He gained much local fame as a lecturer on mathematics. His personal character was such as to excite the admiration and love of his associates in a remarkable degree. As a founder of the Cambridge Platonists, his special service was in developing the foundation of a Christian philosophy.
John Smith (born 1854, date of death unknown) was a United States Navy sailor and a recipient of America's highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor.
John Smith (born August 10, 1927) is a Canadian poet.
Big Smith (1858 - January 6, 1899) played one year of professional baseball in 1882 with the Troy Trojans and Worcester Ruby Legs. In his 54 games of play, Smith had 219 at bats, hitting .242. He was a first baseman.
John Smith (February 18 1894 - November 8 1977) was an Ontario businessman and political figure. He represented Lincoln in the Canadian House of Commons as a Progressive Conservative member from 1957 to 1962.
He was born in Scotland in 1894, the son of Daniel Smith, and grew up there. Smith was a building contractor. He served in the Canadian Army during World War I. In 1924, he married Jean Wood. Smith served on the city council of Saint Catharines and was mayor from 1954 to 1957. He was defeated by James McNulty in the 1962 general election. He was a member of the Freemasons.
John Smith, was a Representative from Vermont. He was born in Barre, Massachusetts on August 12, 1789 and died in St. Albans, Vermont, on November 26, 1858.
He attended the common schools, moved to St. Albans and studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1810 and commenced practice in St. Albans.
He was State's Attorney for Franklin County from 1826 to 1832, member of the State house of representatives from 1827 to 1837, and served as speaker from 1831 to 1833.
Later on he was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1839-March 3, 1841) but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1840 to the Twenty-seventh Congress.
John Smith (1770 - 1814) was a clockmaker born in Pittenweem, Fife, Scotland.
His most famous clock is in the possession of the Duke of Buccleugh. It is reported to have four dials and shows days of the week and days of the month. The clock can play eight old Scots tunes and every three hours initiates a procession where the Macer of the Lords of Council and Session appears, doffs his cap and then leads fifteen Lords in ceremonial robes across an opening, before re-appearing and replacing his cap. At midnight on Saturday, a plaque appears bearing the legend "Remember Sunday". On Sunday the clock neither strikes nor processes, resuming at midnight. John Smith of Pitenweem was a superb ingenious craftsman and his clocks generally were of the highest quality. For such a talented clockmaker to come from a small secluded fishing village in Scotland this is no mean achievement. An advertisement is issued by himself in the year 1775, which he informs us, " he was bred in the trade and had never been out of the country."
John Smith (October 27, 1841 — November 26, 1898) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm round-arm bowler. Smith was born in Clifton.
Smith debuted in 1871, though he made his first real breakthrough playing in Derbyshire's undefeated 1874 season, when, as a lower-order batsman, he proved himself sturdy against a rampaging Sandy Watson, who, despite a nine-wicket haul for Lancashire, was unable, singlehandedly, to win the match for the team. Smith was then selected for five of Derbyshire's seven matches during 1875, and, just when he looked to be recapturing his good form two years later, was dropped from the team and didn't appear in another County match.
Smith, one amongst five round-arm bowlers of Derbyshire's debut season (the others, James Billyeald, Dove Gregory, William Hickton, John Platts, and John Tilson, had variable influence on the early game in Derbyshire, though by far the most successful was Platts), played five years later for Gentlemen of Derbyshire against a team of Canadian expats, including Walter Wright and Thomas Phillips.
Smith died in Derby at the age of 57.
John Smith May 7, 1750 - March 5, 1836 was a United States Representative from Virgin; born at “Shooter’s Hill,” near Locust Hill, Middlesex County, Va., May 7, 1750; moved to Frederick County, Va., in 1773 and engaged in planting at “Hackwood,” near Winchester; commissioned a justice of the peace in 1773; served in Dunmore’s War with the Indians in 1774, the American Revolutionary War, and the War of 1812; member of the State house of delegates 1779-1783; served in the State senate 1791-1794; elected as a Republican to the Seventh and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1801 - March 3, 1815); resumed agricultural pursuits; died at “Rockville,” near Middletown, Frederick County, Va., on March 5, 1836; interment in the family burying ground at “Hackwood,” near Winchester, Va.; reinterred in Mount Hebron Cemetery, Winchester, Va., in 1890.
John Michael Smith (born December 30, 1949, in Leafield, England) is a retired American football placekicker. He made his professional debut with the New England Patriots in 1974, remaining with the team until 1983. After his retirement, he joined his fellow English-born retired placekicker Mick Luckhurst as part of Channel 4's NFL coverage team on UK television.
Smith is most famous for kicking the only points in the Snowplow Game, played December 12, 1982 in a snow storm at Foxboro Stadium, where convict Mark Henderson, released for a weekend work program, cleared the way for Smith to beat Miami and enter football lore.
An accomplished soccer coach and father of four, Smith currently resides in Dover, Massachusetts and runs an indoor sports complex in Milford, MA. He also runs John Smith #1 Soccer School, a popular and highly respected soccer camp held at various New England colleges each summer.
John Smith (1781 - 1852) was a Scottish architect. He was the city architect of Aberdeen, and together with Archibald Simpson he built many of the granite buildings that gave that city the nickname 'The Granite City'.
John Smith (born March 3, 1931) was an American actor.
He played a pilot in the movie Island of Lost Women in 1959, and starred in the TV series Laramie (1959-1963).
John Smith (6 September, 1767-20 January, 1842) was a British politician.
He was the son of Abel Smith, a Nottingham banker who had been a Member of Parliament for Aldborough, St Ives, and St Germans, and the brother of Robert Smith, 1st Baron Carrington.
Smith was Tory Member of Parliament for Wendover from 1802 to 1806 and later represented Nottingham from 1806 to 1818, Midhurst from 1818 to 1830 and Buckinghamshire from 1831 to 1835. (He was also elected for Midhurst in 1806, but preferred to sit for Nottingham on that occasion. Both Wendover and Midhurst were pocket boroughs controlled by his brother Lord Carrington, but the competitive Nottingham constituency was considerably more prestigious.)
Smith married three times. By his second wife, Elizabeth Tucker (1773-1809), he had two sons, John Abel Smith (1802-1871), who succeeded him as MP for Midhurst, and Martin Tucker Smith (1803-1890), who became MP for Wycombe; and he had two daughters by his third wife, Emma Leigh.
His great-grandson Vivian Hugh Smith was created Baron Bicester in 1938.
John Smith (October 27 1831 - March 5 1909) was a Scottish-born Ontario businessman and political figure. He represented Peel in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1893 to 1908 as a Liberal member.
He was born in Inverness in 1831, the son of Andrew Smith, and came to Peel County, Upper Canada with his family in 1832. He was educated in Chinguacousy Township. Smith was an auctioneer and served on the town council for Brampton. He was elected to the provincial legislature in an 1893 by-election held after Kenneth Chisholm was appointed county registrar.
Smith died of pneumonia in 1909.
John Smith was a shortstop in Major League Baseball from 1873 to 1875.
John Smith (died 1809) was a professor at Dartmouth College and the author of the first unpointed Hebrew grammar book published in the United States.
Smith was born in Byfield, Massachusetts. After graduating from Dartmouth, he moved to West Hartford, Connecticut, and became a pastor. In 1777, he returned to Dartmouth as a professor in of English, Greek, Latin, Hebrew and Aramaic.
Smith died from tuberculosis in 1809.
John Smith (1662 - 1717) was an English poet and playwright .
Dr. John Smith (born 12 August 1855 in Mauchline, Ayrshire) was a Scottish footballer of the 1870s and 1880s.
Smith began playing football at Mauchline F.C. before transferring to Edinburgh University while he studied. After completing his studies in the early 1880s he joined Queen's Park by which time he had already made several appearances for the Scottish national team.
At Queen's Park he won the Scottish Cup in 1881, 1882 and 1884. He became the first player to score a hat-trick in a Scottish Cup final when he scored all three of Queen's Park's goals in the 1881 final replay against Dumbarton . He was not selected to play in the 1882 cup final and no final took place in 1884 but Queen's Park were awarded the trophy after Vale of Leven failed to appear for the final.
Smith often played under the pseudonym J.C. Miller. He also played occasionally as a guest for Corinthians, Swift London F.C. and Liverpool Ramblers FC. He was banned from playing for or against any Scottish club or the Scottish national team in 1885 after he played for Corinthians against a professional English club, thus breaching the Scottish Football Association's amateur regulations.
He earned ten caps in total for Scotland, scoring 10 goals.
As well as football, Smith also played rugby. He played for Edinburgh University and Edinburgh Wanderers and in 1876 was a reserve for the Scottish national rugby team.
As a physician, he practised in Brycehall, Kirkcaldy and sometimes officiated as a football referee.
John D. Smith III (born 1951) is a serial killer who was convicted in the murder of his first wife and is a suspect in the disappearance of his second wife. Additionally skull fragments were found in a locker owned by him that belonged to an unidentified woman.
Smith's case was documented in a Lifetime movie, an episode of Cold Case Files and the book Stranger in my Bed.
John David Smith (born October 17, 1898, date of death unknown) was a Canadian rower who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics.
In 1924 he won the silver medal as crew member of the Canadian boat in the eights event.
