Sir John Wilson Smith CBE DL (6 November 1920 – 31 January 1995) was the chairman of Liverpool F.C.
[1][2] John Smith was chairman of Liverpool Football Club for 17 years from 1973 and during this period they embarked on their most successful era.
Smith also played a pivotal role in the acceptance of shirt sponsorship in British football in the early 1980s.
[3] John married Doris Mabell Parfitt in 1946, to whom he had one son, Colin.
Smith was made a CBE in 1982[4] and knighted in the 1990 New Year Honours list "for services to sport".