Jemina Durning Smith

Durning Library roundel of Jemima above a window

Jemina Durning Smith (1843-1901) was a British philanthropist.

She was the daughter of the Manchester cotton merchant, John Benjamin Smith, who in 1835 becoming the founding chairman of the Anti-Corn Law League, and his wife Jemina Durning, who was an heiress from Liverpool.^[1]

She paid for the Durning Library is a Grade II listed library at 167 Kennington Lane, Kennington, London SE11, designed by Sidney R. J. Smith, in the Gothic Revival style.^[2]

She never married.^[3]

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