Robert Blyth (bishop)

Robert Blyth, OSB (b Norton, Derbyshire 1470 - d Cambridge 1547) was a Bishop of Down and Connor^[1] in the first half of the sixteenth century.^[2]

Also the Abbot of Thorney Abbey,^[3] he was first appointed on 16 April 1520; but accepted royal supremacy in 1539. He was deposed by Pope Paul III. Blyth also acted as a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Ely^[4] from 1539 to 1541.