Coke Smyth

John Richard Coke Smyth was the only son of Richard Smyth and Elizabeth Coke (c.1777-c. 1851). More commonly known as Coke Smyth, with which name he signed his works, he has been mistakenly named Frederick Coke Smyth or Smith in some reference books. Smyth married Marion Hockett in about 1832 at Cripplegate Church. They had six children. Smyth's passport, still in the family's possession, would suggest that he was a gentleman of means who travelled widely on the Continent, as …