Edmund Smyth

Edmund Smyth
The Right Reverend; 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

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]

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. Next he was chaplain to Douglas MacKenzie, Bishop of Zululand. From 1889 to 1892 he was a Missionary and Theological Tutor at Isandhlwana[7] before elevation to the episcopate[8] as the first Bishop of Lebombo.[9] 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.[10] 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.

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University of the Witwatersrand
Teague 1955, p. 28.

Anglican Church of Southern Africa titles
New diocese	Bishop of Lebombo 1893–1912	Succeeded by Latimer Fuller

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