Sir John Smyth, 1st Baronet (1893–1983), British MP, Privy Counsellor in 1962, recipient of the Victoria Cross during the First World War
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Lieutenant John Smyth 15th Ludhiana Sikhs,was awarded the Victoria Cross, the United Kingdom's highest award for bravery in combat.
The epithets of each baron were coined by John Smyth of Nibley(d.1641), steward of the Berkeley estates, the biographer of the family and author of "Lives of the Berkeleys".
Berkeley Hundred was a land grant in 1618 of the Virginia Company of London to Sir William Throckmorton, Sir George Yeardley, George Thorpe, Richard Berkeley, and John Smyth (1567–1641) of Nibley.