John Smith (Wendover MP)

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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.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by John Hiley Addington George Canning	Member of Parliament for Wendover with Charles Long 1802–1806	Succeeded by Viscount Mahon George Smith
Preceded by Sir John Borlase Warren Daniel Parker Coke	Member of Parliament for Nottingham with Daniel Parker Coke 1806-1812 The Lord Rancliffe 1812-1818 1806–1818	Succeeded by The Lord Rancliffe Joseph Birch
Preceded by Thomas Thompson Sir Oswald Mosley	Member of Parliament for Midhurst with Samuel Smith 1818-1820 Abel Smith 1820-1830 1818–1830	Succeeded by John Abel Smith George Smith
Preceded by Marquess of Chandos Robert Smith	Member of Parliament for Buckinghamshire with Marquess of Chandos 1831-1835 George Dashwood 1832-1835 1831–1835	Succeeded by Marquess of Chandos Sir William Young James Backwell Praed