Patrick Murray Smythe

Patrick Murray Smythe was an Anglican priest in the second quarter of the 20th century. He was born into a clerical family[1] on 24 March 1860 and educated at Charterhouse and Keble College, Oxford. Ordained in 1883, he was initially a curate at St Mark's Swindon[2] and then held incumbencies at Rockingham, Westbury and Kettering before being appointed Provost of St Ninian's Cathedral, Perth in 1911, a post he held for 24 years [3]. A great angler [4], he died on 19 March 1935[5]

Religious titles
Preceded by
Charles Edward Plumb		 Provost of St Ninian’s Cathedral, Perth
1911 –1935		 Succeeded by
Hubert Mitchell Rankin

References

  1. ^ His father, also Patrick Murray Smythe, was the sometime Rector of Solihull >“Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 9780199540877
  2. ^ Parish web site
  3. ^ ”Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689-2000” Bertie, D.M: Edinburgh T & T Clark ISBN 0567087468
  4. ^ “The Diary 0f an All-Round Angler-extracts from the Fishing Journal Kept For Over Sixty Years 1872-1935 by the Rev. Patrick Murray Smythe” Smythe, PC (Ed): London, Faber and Faber,1956
  5. ^ The Times, Thursday, Mar 21, 1935; pg. 16; Issue 47018; col D Obituary Provost Smythe
Provosts of St Ninian's Cathedral, Perth

Edward Bowles Knottesford • John Burton • Vincent Lewis Rorison • Archibald Ean Campbell • George Grub • Charles Edward Plumb • Patrick Murray Smythe • Hubert Mitchell Rankin • Alexander Roy MacGregor Grier • James Lumsden Barkway • Edward Denis Tyndall • Wilfred Bennetto Currie • Alfred Ian Watt • Graham John Thompson Forbes • Kevin Gerhard Franz • Hunter Buchanan Farquharson •