John Spencer Smith [SEP] occupation
John Spencer Smith
John Spencer Smith FRS (11 September 1769 – 5 June 1845) was a British diplomat, politician and writer.
Career.
Smith joined the British Army in 1790 as an ensign, later promoted to lieutenant. When France declared war on Britain in February 1793 he was in Turkey with his elder brother, Sidney Smith, who obtained a position for him in the British embassy in Constantinople. He was private secretary to the ambassador, Robert Liston, and was chargé d'affaires after Liston left Constantinople in
Lippincott Company, (1923). At Project Gutenberg
Other Resources.
- Anna Garlin Spencer Quotations
- [https://www.jstor.org/stable/3004437 Woman's Share in Social Culture [review]], Pruette, Lorine. Social Forces Vol. 4, No. 1 (Sep., 1925), pp. 243–244 AT JSTOR
- The Remarkable Anna Carpenter (Garlin) Spencer Wayback Machine archived copy of a biographical blog piece by distant relative and amateur historian John D Hew, who also references her in the similarly archived Fearless Females -