Guest post by R M Healey – John Spencer Smith: an English gentleman on the make in late eighteenth century Constantinople – Part 2

In the previous article, we left John Spencer Smith, the former page boy at the Royal court, Oxford graduate, failed soldier (on half pay as a ‘ reduced lieutenant ‘ of 8th regiment of foot from December 1792 to December 1793 ) and blagger among the diplomats in late eighteenth century Constantinople, investing in a Continue reading Guest post by R M Healey John Spencer Smith: an English gentleman…