John Ayshford Wise

{{short description|British politician}}

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|office = Member of Parliament
for Stafford

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|term_start = 8 July 1852

|term_end = 30 August 1860

|alongside = Thomas Salt (1859–1860)
Charles Chetwynd-Talbot (1857–1859)
Arthur Otway (1852–1857)

|predecessor = David Urquhart
Thomas Sidney

|successor = Thomas Sidney
Thomas Salt

|birth_date = 1810

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|nationality = British

|party = Liberal

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John Ayshford Wise (1810 – 9 September 1865){{cite web |last1=Rayment |first1=Leigh |title=The House of Commons: Constituencies beginning with "S" |url=http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Scommons4.htm |website=Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page |accessdate=14 July 2018 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180714150551/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Scommons4.htm |archivedate=14 July 2018 |url-status=usurped |date=30 April 2018 }} was a British Liberal and Whig politician.{{cite news |title=Staffordshire Advertiser |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000252/18520724/074/0007 |accessdate=14 July 2018 |date=24 July 1852 |page=7 |via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}

Wise was first elected Whig MP for Stafford at the 1852 general election and, becoming a Liberal in 1859, held the seat until 1860, when he resigned by becoming Steward of the Manor of Hempholme, causing a by-election.{{cite book|editor1-last=Craig|editor1-first=F. W. S.|editor-link=F. W. S. Craig|title=British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885|date=1977|publisher=Macmillan Press|location=London|isbn=978-1-349-02349-3|edition=1st|type=e-book |pages=282–283}}