Edmund Smyth
{{Short description|Anglican bishop}}
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{{Infobox Christian leader
| type = Bishop
| honorific-prefix = {{pre-nominal styles|RRevd}}
| name = Edmund Smyth
| title = Bishop of Lebombo
| church = Church of the Province of Southern Africa
| diocese = Diocese of Lebombo
| term = 1893–1912
| successor = Latimer Fuller
| ordination = 1882 (deacon); 1883 (priest)
| consecration = 5 November 1893
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1858|4|13|df=y}}
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1950|4|5|1858|4|13|df=y}}
| nationality =
| religion = Anglicanism
| alma_mater = King's College, Cambridge
}}
William Edmund Smyth (1858{{sfn|Teague|1955|p=11}}–1950) was an Anglican bishop in the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first two of the twentieth."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
Biography
He was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge.{{acad|id=SMT876WE|name=Smyth, William Edmund}} Made a deacon in 1882 at Ely Cathedral and ordained priest in 1883 also at Ely{{sfn|Teague|1955|p=15}}"The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, John Phillips, 1900 his first posts were curacies at St Mary the Less, Cambridge and St Peter's, London Docks.{{cite book |editor=Malden, Richard |title=Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 |edition=51st |location=London |publisher=The Field Press |pages=1402 |year=1920}} Next he was chaplain to Douglas MacKenzie, Bishop of Zululand. From 1889 to 1892 he was a Missionary and Theological Tutor at Isandhlwana{{Cite book |publisher=A.R. Mowbray |first=Arthur Hamilton |last=Baynes |author-link=Arthur Hamilton Baynes |title=Handbooks of English Church Expansion |access-date=2014-07-30 |date=1908 |url=http://anglicanhistory.org/africa/ahbaynes/handbooks1908/04.html}} before elevation to the episcopate{{London Gazette |issue=28225 |date=19 February 1909 |pages=1304–1305}} as the first Bishop of Lebombo.[http://www.historicalpapers.wits.ac.za/inventory.php?iid=7526 University of the Witwatersrand] He was consecrated a bishop on 5 November 1893 in Grahamstown Cathedral, by the Bishops of Cape Town, of Bloemfontein, of Grahamstown, of Pretoria, of St John's, of Kaffraria and of Zululand.{{sfn|Teague|1955|p=28}} 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
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- {{cite book |first=Tom Richard |last=Teague |title=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 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Op4aAAAAMAAJ |access-date=1 October 2013 |year=1955 |publisher=S.P.C.K.}}
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External links
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- [https://openlibrary.org/b/OL6207751M/memoir_of_William_Edmund_Smyth Open Library]
- [http://www.stpeterslondondocks.org.uk/ St Peter's, London Docks]
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