Edmund Smyth
The Rt Revd William Edmund Smyth | |
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| 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) |
The Rt Revd William Edmund Smyth (known as Edmund; 13 April 1858[3] – 5 April 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.[8] Next he was Chaplain to the Bishop of Zululand. From 1889 to 1892 he was a Missionary and Theological Tutor at Isandhlwana[9] before elevation to the Episcopate[10] as the inaugural Bishop of Lebombo.[11] Retiring as bishop in 1912, he was Warden of the Anglican Hostel South African Native College, Fort Hare until retirement in 1932.
See also
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
- ^ Church web site
- ^ 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.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link) - "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.
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- "No. 28225". The London Gazette. 19 February 1909.
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