Edmund Smyth

William Edmund Smyth (known as Edmund; 13 April 1858 – 5 April 1950) was an Anglican bishop in the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first two of the twentieth.[1][2].

He was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge.[3] Ordained in 1882,[4] his first posts were curacies at St Mary the Less, Cambridge and St Peter’s, London Docks.[5] Next he was Chaplain to the Bishop of Zululand. From 1889 to 1892 he was a Missionary and Theological Tutor at Isandhlwana[6] before elevation to the Episcopate[7] as the inaugural Bishop of Lebombo[8]. Retiring as bishop in 1912, he was Warden of the Anglican Hostel South African Native College, Fort Hare until retirement in 1932.

Notes

  1. ^ “Who was Who” 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 071363457X
  2. ^ Ecclesiastical Intelligence The Times Wednesday, Oct 19, 1892; pg. 5; Issue 33773; col F
  3. ^ Smyth, William Edmund in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.
  4. ^ "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, John Phillips, 1900
  5. ^ Church web site
  6. ^ Project canterbuiry
  7. ^ National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives
  8. ^ University of the Witwatersrand

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Anglican Communion titles
Preceded by
Inaugural appointment		 Bishop of Lemombo
1893–1912		 Succeeded by
John Latimer Fuller
Bishops of Lebombo