Edmund Smyth
Anglican bishop
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William Edmund Smyth (1858[1]–1950) was an Anglican bishop in the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first two of the twentieth.[2][3]
Edmund Smyth | |
|---|---|
| Bishop of Lebombo | |
| Church | Church of the Province of Southern Africa |
| Diocese | Diocese of Lebombo |
| In office | 1893–1912 |
| Successor | Latimer Fuller |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 1882 (deacon); 1883 (priest) |
| Consecration | 5 November 1893 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 13 April 1858 |
| Died | 5 April 1950 (aged 91) |
| Denomination | Anglicanism |
| Alma mater | King's College, Cambridge |
Biography
He was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge.[4] Made a deacon in 1882 at Ely Cathedral and ordained priest in 1883 also at Ely[5][6] his first posts were curacies at St Mary the Less, Cambridge and St Peter's, London Docks.[7] Next he was chaplain to Douglas MacKenzie, 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 first Bishop of Lebombo.[10] 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.[11] 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.
