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William Smyth (other)
William Smyth (c. 1460–1514) was an English bishop. William Smyth may also refer to: Politics * Sir William Smyth, 1st Baronet (c.1616–1696), English politician * William Smyth (Irish politician), UK MP for the Irish constituency of Westmeath, 1801–1808 * William Smyth (congressman) (1824–1870), American politician * William Smyth (Australian politician) (1846–1899), Australian politician for electoral district of Gympie * William Ross Smyth (1857–1932), Canadian politician * William James Smyth (1886–1950), labour member of the Senate of Northern Ireland Sports * Bill Smyth (broadcaster) (1936–2011), broadcaster and sports journalist in Northern Ireland * Bill Smyth (umpire) (1916–2007), Australian cricket umpire * Billy Smyth (1925–2005), Northern Irish footballer * Bill Smyth (American football) (1922–1966), American football player Religion * William Smyth (English bishop) (1858-1950), better known as Edmund Smyth, Anglican bishop in England and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Smyth
William Smyth (or Smith) ( – 2 January 1514) was Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield from 1493 to 1496 and then Bishop of Lincoln until his death. He held political offices, the most important being Lord President of the Council of Wales and the Marches. He became very wealthy and was a benefactor of a number of institutions. He was a co-founder of Brasenose College, Oxford and endowed a grammar school in the village of his birth in Lancashire. Early life and education Smyth was born in the south Lancashire village of Farnworth in the parish of Prescot, which now falls within the town of Widnes in the Borough of Halton. Smyth was the fourth son of Robert Smyth of Peel Hall. He was allegedly brought up during his youth at nearby Knowsley Hall, the home of Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby. At this time Stanley was married to his second wife Lady Margaret, Countess of Richmond. Lady Margaret was the mother of the future Henry VII by her previous marriage to Edmund Tudor, 1s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Smyth (English Bishop)
William Edmund Smyth (1858–1950) was an Anglican bishop in the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first two of the twentieth. Biography He was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge. Made a deacon in 1882 at Ely Cathedral and ordained priest in 1883 also at Ely 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 before elevation to the episcopate as the first Bishop of Lebombo. 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. Retiring as bishop in 1912, he was warden of the Anglican Hostel at the South African Native College, now the University of Fort Hare The University of Fort Hare is a public university in Alice, Eastern Cape, South A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Smyth (professor)
William Smyth (February 2, 1797 – April 3, 1868) was an American academic and writer on mathematics and other subjects. Biography William Smyth was born in Pittston, Maine on February 2, 1797. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1822, then studied theology at Andover Theological Seminary. In 1825, he became a professor of mathematics at Bowdoin College, and in 1846 became an associate professor of natural philosophy. The Bowdoin College Department of Mathematics Smyth Prize is named in his honor. Smyth was an ardent abolitionist of slavery and supporter of the temperance movement. While at Bowdoin, Smyth supported the effort to the First Parish Church, which is now on the National Register of Historic Places. He died in Brunswick, Maine in April 1868. He is interred at Pine Grove Cemetery in Brunswick. Bibliography Smyth wrote several widely used textbooks: * ''Elements of Algebra'' (1833digitized version* ''Elementary Algebra for Schools'' (1850digitized version* ''T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Henry Smyth
Admiral William Henry Smyth (21 January 1788 – 8 September 1865) was a Royal Navy officer, hydrographer, astronomer and numismatist. He is noted for his involvement in the early history of a number of learned societies, for his hydrographic charts, for his astronomical work, and for a wide range of publications and translations. Origins William Henry Smyth was the only son of Joseph Smyth (died 1788) and Georgiana Caroline Pitt Pilkington (died 1838), the daughter of John Carteret Pilkington and the granddaughter of Laetitia Pilkington and her husband Matthew Pilkington. His father, Joseph Smyth, an United States, American Loyalist (American Revolution), Loyalist from New Jersey who served as a lieutenant in the King's Royal Regiment of New York during the American Revolutionary War, Revolutionary War, was the sixth son of Benjamin Smyth (died 1769), a landowner in what is now Blairstown, New Jersey, Blairstown, and his first wife Catherina Schoonhoven (died 1750). Never hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Smyth (historian)
William Smyth (1765 in Liverpool – 24 June 1849 in Norwich) was an English poet and historian, who became Regius Professor at Cambridge in 1807. Life The son of merchant-banker Thomas Smyth, he was born in Liverpool. After attending a day school in the town, he went to Eton College, where he remained three years. On leaving Eton he read with a tutor at Bury, Lancashire, and in January 1783 he entered Peterhouse, Cambridge., graduating eighth wrangler in 1787. In the same year, he was elected to the fellowship vacated by John Wilson. He proceeded to the M.A. in 1790, and returned to Liverpool, but in 1793, after the declaration of war with France, his father's bank failed, and it became necessary for him to earn his living. Through Edward Morris, a college friend, Smyth was chosen in 1793 by Richard Brinsley Sheridan as tutor to his elder son Thomas. He lived with his pupil at Wanstead, at Bognor, and at Cambridge, and saw much of Sheridan himself; but the relationsh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Smyth (academic Administrator)
William Smyth D.D. (1582 – 6 May 1658), was an English academic administrator at the University of Oxford. Smyth was elected Warden of Wadham College, Oxford on 24 March 1616/17, a post he held until he resigned on 7 September 1635. While Warden at Wadham College, Smyth was also Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University Oxford () is a city in England. It is the county town and only city of Oxfordshire. In 2020, its population was estimated at 151,584. It is north-west of London, south-east of Birmingham and north-east of Bristol. The city is home to the ... from 1630 until 1632. He died on 6 May 1658. References 1658 deaths Wardens of Wadham College, Oxford Vice-Chancellors of the University of Oxford 1582 births {{UOxford-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Smyth (architect)
William Smyth (floruit, fl. 1465 – died 1490) was an English Gothic architecture, gothic architect responsible for the work including the fan vaults at Wells Cathedral, Sherborne Abbey and Milton Abbey. - Answers.com He may also have been the architect of the Church of St Bartholomew, Crewkerne. References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Smyth (priest, Born 1662)
William Smyth (9 July 1662 – 3 February 1710) was an Irish Anglican priest. Born at Lisburn in County Antrim in 1665, he was the son of James Smyth of Mountown, County Down, by his wife Francisca, daughter of Edward Dowdall of Mountown. He was educated at Trinity College Dublin. He was Precentor of Down Cathedral from 1699 to 1703; Treasurer of Lisburn Cathedral from 1703 to 1705; Prebendary of Rasharkin at Lisburn from 1705 to 1707; and Archdeacon of Connor from 1707 until his death. His brother was Bishop of Down and Connor The Bishop of Down and Connor is an episcopal title which takes its name from the town of Downpatrick (located in County Down) and the village of Connor (located in County Antrim) in Northern Ireland. The title is still used by the Catholic Chur ... from 1699 until his death in 1720. References 1662 births 1710 deaths 17th-century Irish Anglican priests 18th-century Irish Anglican priests Archdeacons of Connor Alumni of Trinity C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Smyth (priest, Born 1683)
William Smyth, (1683–1759) was an 18th-century Anglican priest in Ireland. Bishop Thomas Smyth, he was born in Raphoe and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. Smith was Dean of Ardfert from 1728 and Archdeacon of Meath The archdeacon of Meath is a senior ecclesiastical officer within the united Diocese of Meath and Kildare. The archdeaconry can trace its history from Helias, the first known incumbent, who held the office in the twelfth century to the last dis ... holding both posts until 1732."Fasti ecclesiae Hibernicae : the succession of the prelates and members of the Cathedral bodies of Ireland Vol III" Cotton, H p129: Dublin, Hodges,1848 References Alumni of Trinity College Dublin 18th-century Irish Anglican priests Archdeacons of Meath 1683 births 1759 deaths {{Ireland-Anglican-clergy-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Blood Smyth
William Augustine Blood Smyth MA was Archdeacon of Killaloe from 1927 until 1938. Smyth was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1878. He served at Kenmare, Oldham and Lisson Grove (curacies); Kilgarvan, Dromod, Ballingarry and Kilfieragh ( incumbencies). He was Canon of Killaloe from 1902 until 1913; and Treasurer from 1913 to 1927. He was a Prebendary of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin from 1920 and 1927. He was Rural Dean of O'Mullod from 1922; and the incumbent at Kilnasoolagh Kilnasoolagh ( ga, Cill Átha na Súileach) is a civil parish in County Clare, Ireland, and a townland within that parish. Church records mention the parish in 1256. Location In 1845 the parish lay on the west border of the barony of Lower Bun ... from 1922. Notes Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Archdeacons of Killaloe Year of birth missing {{Ireland-reli-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Smyth (Irish Bishop)
William Smyth was a seventeenth century Anglican bishop in Ireland. He was the ancestor of the prominent landowning family of Barbavilla Manor, Collinstown, County Westmeath. Smyth (1644 - 1699) was born in County Antrim, son of Captain Ralph Smyth(b. 1615 Rosedale Abbey, Yorkshire, d.1689 Lisburn), who had settled in Ireland c.1630 and acquired lands in Antrim and County Down. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He was appointed Treasurer of Armagh in 1667; and a prebendary of Derry in 1670. He was Dean of Dromore from 1673 to 1681. He became Bishop of Killala and Achonry in 1681 but translated to Raphoe a year later. He spent 12 years at Raphoe before being translated again to Kilmore. He was summoned to attend the short-lived Patriot Parliament called by James II of England in 1689. He died on 24 February 1699 and was buried at St Peter, Dublin. He married Mary Povey at Saint Michan, Dublin on 29 May 1672, daughter of Sir John Povey, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Smyth (American Football)
William Krantz Smyth (April 8, 1922 – November 6, 1966) was an American football player and coach. He played college football for Notre Dame (1940–1941), Cincinnati (1942), and Penn State, and had his college career interrupted by service in the United States Marine Corps during World War II. He played for the Los Angeles Rams from 1947 to 1950 and was an assistant coach for the Ottawa Rough Riders from 1956 to 1966. Early years Smyth was born in 1922 in Batavia, Ohio. He attended Roger Bacon High School in St. Bernard, Ohio, a village located within Cincinnati. At Roger Bacon, he won varsity letters in football, basketball, track, and baseball. College and military service In September 1940, he enrolled at Notre Dame University. At Notre Dame, he played for the freshman football team in 1940 and for the varsity as a reserve end in 1941. In 1942, he transferred to the University of Cincinnati and played for the 1942 Cincinnati Bearcats football team while they com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
