Charles Smythies

Charles Alan Smythies (6 August 1844 – 7 May 1894) was a British colonial bishop[1] in the 19th century.[2]

Portrait of Charles Smythies by Samuel Alexander Walker (February 1890)
Portrait of Smythies by Clara Reynolds

Life

Smythies was born in Colchester, the son of the Rev. Charles Norfolk Smythies, vicar of St-Mary-at-the-Walls there, and his wife Isabella Travers, daughter of Eaton Travers RN.[3][4] He was educated at Felsted School and Trinity College, Cambridge,[5] and ordained in 1869. His first post was a curacy in Great Marlow, after which he was Vicar of Roath in Cardiff.

Smythies was the fourth Bishop of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa, and was consecrated on 30 November 1883, serving as Bishop in Central Africa until that diocese was split (by his initiative) in 1892, and then of one of the parts, Zanzibar, until his death.[6]

Notes
  1. "Trinity College, University of Cambridge". BBC Your Paintings. Archived from the original on 11 May 2014. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
  2. "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, Hamilton & Co 1889
  3. Genealogical web-site Archived 6 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  4. Porter, Andrew. "Smythies, Charles Allan (1844–1894)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/25970. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  5. "Smythies, Charles Allan (or Alan (SMTS863CA)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  6. The Times, Friday 11 May 1894; p. 10; Issue 34261; col A Obituary: Bishop Smythies
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