Pat Smythe (priest)

Patrick Murray "Pat" Smythe[1] (24 March 1860 – 19 March 1935) was an Anglican priest in the second quarter of the 20th century. He was born into a clerical family[2] on 24 March 1860 and educated at Charterhouse and Keble College, Oxford.

Ordained in 1883, he was initially a curate at St Mark's, Swindon[3] and then held incumbencies at Rockingham, Westbury[4] and Kettering before being appointed Provost of St Ninian's Cathedral, Perth in 1911, a post he held for 24 years.[5]

A great angler,[6] he died on 19 March 1935, five days before his 75th birthday.[7]

References
  1. Usborne family tree, usbornefamilytree.com; accessed 20 June 2015.
  2. His father, also Patrick Murray Smythe, was the sometime Rector of Solihull>"Who was Who" 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007; ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
  3. Parish web site
  4. Crockford's Clerical Directory London, OUP, 1929, p. 1204
  5. ”Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689–2000" Bertie, D.M: Edinburgh T & T Clark; ISBN 0-567-08746-8.
  6. "The Diary of an All-Round Angler-extracts from the Fishing Journal Kept For Over Sixty Years 1872-1935 by the Rev. Patrick Murray Smythe" Smythe, PC (Ed): London, Faber and Faber, 1956
  7. Obituary, The Times, Thursday, 21 March 1935; p. 16; Issue 47018; col D


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