Canon Thomas Allen Blyth
DD (7 January 1844 – 19 July 1913), author, historian, editor of the
Worcester Diocesan Calendar (1889),
Hon. Canon of
Worcester Cathedral (1898), examining Chaplain and
Commissary to the
Archbishop of Ottawa,
Commissary to the
Bishops of Niagara (from 1890) and
Surrogate
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to the
Diocese of Worcester (from 1900).
Early life
Thomas Allen Blyth was born in London on 7 January 1844, the second son of Henry Ralph Blyth of
Wivenhoe, Beaumont, London and
Bedford. He was educated at
Bedford Modern School and
Queen's College, Oxford (BA (Hons in Theology) 1882, MA 1885, BD 1888, DD 1892).
Career
Blyth was an Assistant Master at the
Bedford Schools (1865–75) and
ordained in 1875. He was
Curate
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of
Wymondham, Norfolk (1875–77),
Clifton-upon-Dunsmore
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(1877–78),
Thame
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(1879–81) and St Saviour in the Parish of Upper Chelsea (1884–85).
He was a Fellow of the Educational Institute of Scotland (1870); Hon. Fellow Academy of Roman Citizens (1870); PhD and MA,
University of Göttingen (1870).
Blyth was Vice-Chairman of the Foleshill Board of Guardians (1887–92) and was made editor of the
Worcester Diocesan Calendar in 1889.
He was
Hon. Canon of
Worcester Cathedral (1898), examining Chaplain and
Commissary to the
Archbishop of Ottawa,
Commissary to the
Bishops of Niagara (from 1890), Chairman of the Stoke School Board (1897–99) and
Surrogate
A surrogate is a substitute or deputy for another person in a specific role and may refer to:
Relationships
* Surrogacy, an arrangement where a woman agrees to carry and give birth to a child for another person who will become its parent at bi ...
to the
Diocese of Worcester (from 1900).
Blyth was made a
Doctor of Divinity
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In the United Kingdom, it is considered an advanced doctoral degree. At the University of Oxford, doctors of divinity are ran ...
of the
University of Durham in 1901 and was a senior fellow of the
Geological Society of Edinburgh.
In addition to his official church duties, Blyth was an author, translator and historian producing 38 works in 61 publications, many Latin translations.
Family life
Blyth married Mary Jane, 3rd daughter of John Hands of
Grandborough
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House,
Grandborough
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, Warwickshire. They had a son and a daughter. He died on 19 July 1913.
Bibliography
*
Sir William Harpur, Lord Mayor of London in 1561. Published 1864
*
John Bunyan and his Church
* The Stranger's Guide to the
Bedford Schools, 1864
* Burt's
Bedford Directory and History of the Churches of Bunyan, Howard, and Wesley; John Jukes, 1866
* The
Bedford Directory and Almanac, 1866
* Carter's Directory and History of the Ancient Parish Churches of
Bedford, 1869
*
Metallography as a Separate Science, 1871
* The History of
Bedford, 1873; John Huss, 1879
*
Plato’s Meno, literally translated
* The Oxford Logic Chart
* Terence's Andria, Phormio, and Heauton Timorumenos, literally translated
* The Oxford Handbook of Logic, 1880
*
Xenophon’s Memorabilia, I, II, IV, literally translated
* The Undergraduate's Guide to the Holy Gospels
* Lecture Notes on Human Physiology, 1881
* Questions and Exercises in Advanced Logic, 1881
* Rudiments of Faith and Religion
* Guide to Matriculation and Responsions at Oxford
* Livy's History of Rome, XXI, XXII, XXIII, literally translated, 1882
*
Homer’s Iliad, I to IV, Cæsar de Bello Gallico, I to IV, literally translated, 1883
*
Plato’s Apology of
Socrates, literally translated, 1884
* Handbook for the Clergy, 1893
* The History of Stoke-in-Coventry, 1897
* The Thirty-nine Articles, 3rd edn, 1899
* Editor, Oxford Translations of the Classics
* The Oxford Science Primers
* Oxford Aids to The Schools, 1878–85
External links
Thomas Allen Blyth at WorldCat Identities
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1844 births
1913 deaths
People educated at Bedford Modern School
Alumni of The Queen's College, Oxford
19th-century English Anglican priests