George Smythe, 7th Viscount Strangford, styled The Honourable George Smythe until 1855, was a British Conservative politician, best known for his association with Benjamin Disraeli and the Young Engla
7th Viscount Strangford
Smythe's grave at Kensal Green Cemetery, London, pictured in 2014
Percy Clinton Sydney Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford was a British diplomat.
George Smythe, 7th Viscount Strangford
…He served briefly as Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in 1846 under Sir Robert Peel. Smythe was born in Stockholm, Sweden, the son of Percy Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford, by Ellen Burke, daughter of Sir Thomas Burke. He attended Tonbridge School and Eton College, and was later admitted to St John's College, Cambridge…
Portrait by William Haines, c. 1808