{{Short description|Irish civil servant and revolutionary}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=July 2015}} [[File:John Smith Chartres.jpg|thumb|Chartres in London during the negotiations of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, 1921]]

'''John Smith Chartres''' (5 October 1862 – 14 May 1927) was a lawyer, Irish civil servant and revolutionary.<ref name="nationalarchives.ie">{{cite web |url=http://treaty.nationalarchives.ie/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Chartres.pdf |title=Chartres, John Smith by Pauric J. Dempsey and Richard Hawkins |last1=Dempsey |first1=Pauric J. |last2=Hawkins |first2=Richard |website=nationalarchives.ie |access-date=6 September 2019 }}</ref> Chartres was born in England to Irish parents and spent time as a child in Ireland. After years in the news business in London and British civil service he retired in 1921. He served as the second secretary to the Anglo-Irish Treaty delegation and was greatly trusted by the Irish leader Michael Collins.<ref>{{cite book |last=Comerford |first=Marie |date=2021 |title=On Dangerous Ground A Memoir of the Irish Revolution |url= |location=Dublin |publisher=Lilliput Press |page=161 |isbn=9781843518198 |access-date=}}</ref>

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==Bibliography== Murphy, Brian (1995). John Chartres: Mystery Man of the Treaty. Dublin: Irish Academic Press. ISBN 978-0-716-52543-1

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