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
- ^ “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
- ^ "Smyth, William Edmund (SMT876WE)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, John Phillips, 1900
- ^ Church web site
- ^ Project canterbuiry
- ^ National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives
- ^ University of the Witwatersrand
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