John Smith

John Smith, his daughter Anne, Countess of Clanricarde and grandson the Hon. John Burke are buried in the nave of Westminster Abbey. In the south aisle is a monument to him designed by James Gibbs and made by sculptor John Michael Rysbrack. The monument is of variegated marbles and shows a figure of a mourning woman on a sarcophagus leaning on a medallion portrait of John. Above is a cartouche of arms. The Latin inscription can be translated:

Near this tomb lies buried John Smith, Esquire, of London, in Beaufort Buildings, descended from the Smiths of Lincolnshire, who died 6 July 1718. He left two daughters, of which Anne the eldest married first to Hugh Parker, Esquire, eldest son of Sir Henry Parker of Honnington in the county of Warwick, Baronet, to whom she bore many children, a second time to the Honourable Michael, Lord Dunkillin, eldest son of the Honourable Earl of Clanrickarde in the kingdom of Ireland, by whom he left a son and daughter surviving. Here also lies the Honourable John Burke, eldest son of the aforesaid Lord and Lady Dunkillin, who died 28 December 1719. Mary, another daughter of the aforesaid John Smith, Esquire married to Edward Desbouverie of Longford, in the county of Wiltshire, Baronet, and died without issue.

Lord Dunkillin became Earl of Clanricarde. Anne's monument is in the opposite aisle of the nave. John Smith himself was one of the Commissioners of Excise.