George Toogood Smith
Bookmaker, Person Or Being In Fiction
1903 – 1955
Who was George Toogood Smith?
George Toogood Smith was the maternal uncle, through marriage, of John Lennon. Smith operated his family's two dairy farms and a retail outlet with his brother, Frank Smith, in the village of Woolton, Liverpool. The farms had been in the Smith family for four generations, but after the start of World War II, they were taken over by the British Government for war work.
Smith started courting Mimi Stanley in the spring of 1932, but was thwarted by her indifference and her father's interference. After delivering milk to the hospital where she worked he gave her an ultimatum that she must marry him, "or nothing at all!" On 15 September 1939, she finally married him. They bought a semi-detached house called Mendips, named after the range of hills, at 251 Menlove Avenue, Liverpool.
Lennon lived with Smith and his wife for the majority of his childhood, and Smith taught the young Lennon to read, read him nursery rhymes at night, and later taught Lennon how to solve crossword puzzles. He also taught him to draw and paint and bought him his first mouth organ.
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- Born
- 1903
Liverpool - Siblings
- Spouses
- Mimi Smith
(1939/09/15 - 1955/06/05)
- Mimi Smith
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Lived in
- Liverpool
- Died
- Jun 5, 1955
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on July 23, 2013
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