Edmund Smyth
| The Right Reverend William Edmund Smyth | |
|---|---|
| Bishop of Lebombo | |
| Church | Anglican |
| Province | Southern Africa |
| Diocese | Lebombo |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | Made deacon 1882 in Ely Cathedral, ordained priest 1883 also in Ely.[1] |
| Consecration |
5 November 1893 in Grahamstown Cathedral by the bishops of Cape Town, Bloemfontein, Grahamstown, Pretoria, St John's, Kaffraria and Zululand.[2] |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 13 April 1858 |
| Died | 5 April 1950 (aged 91) |
William Edmund Smyth (1858[3] – 1950) was an Anglican bishop in the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first two of the twentieth.[4][5]
Biography
He was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge.[6] Ordained in 1882,[7] his first posts were curacies at St Mary the Less, Cambridge and St Peter's, London Docks. Next he was chaplain to the Bishop of Zululand. From 1889 to 1892 he was a Missionary and Theological Tutor at Isandhlwana[8] before elevation to the Episcopate[9] as the inaugural Bishop of Lebombo.[10] Retiring as bishop in 1912, he was warden of the Anglican Hostel at the South African Native College, now the University of Fort Hare until retirement in 1932.
Notes and references
- ↑ Teague 1955, p. 15.
- ↑ Teague 1955, p. 28.
- ↑ Teague 1955, p. 11.
- ↑ “Who was Who” 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
- ↑ Ecclesiastical Intelligence The Times Wednesday, Oct 19, 1892; pg. 5; Issue 33773; col F
- ↑ A Cambridge Alumni Database.
- ↑ "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, John Phillips, 1900
- ↑ Baynes 1908.
- ↑ London Gazette 1909.
- ↑ University of the Witwatersrand
- Baynes, Arthur Hamilton (1908). Handbooks of English Church Expansion. A.R. Mowbray. Retrieved 2014-07-30.
- "Smyth, William Edmund (SMT876WE)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- Teague, Tom Richard (1955). A Memoir of William Edmund Smyth: First Bishop of Lebombo (Portuguese East Africa) 1893-1912 and First Warden of Beda Hall, Fort Hare University South Africa, 1920-1932. S.P.C.K. Retrieved 1 October 2013.
- The London Gazette: no. 28225. pp. 1304–1305. 19 February 1909.
External links
- Anglicanism portal
- Open Library
- St Peter's, London Docks
| Anglican Church of Southern Africa titles | ||
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| New diocese | Bishop of Lemombo 1893–1912 |
Succeeded by John Latimer Fuller |
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