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Francis Smythe (priest)

Francis Smythe (priest)

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Francis Henry Dumville Smythe (1873–1966)[1] was the Archdeacon of Lewes from 1929 to 1946.[2]

Smythe was educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College and Emmanuel College, Cambridge.[3] He was ordained in 1898 and held curacies at South Petherton, Bunbury and Alfrick.[4] held incumbencies in Horsted Keynes, Hove and Eastbourne; and died on 8 October 1966.[5]

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    Grave Stone Photos
  2. [2]
    ‘SMYTHE, Canon Francis Henry Dumville’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 18 July 2016
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    Crockford's Clerical Directory, 1951-52, London, OUP, 1951
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    "Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900 " Part II. 1752–1900 Vol. v. Pace – Spyers, 1953 p581
  5. [5]
    Obituaries The Times (London, England), Monday, Oct 10, 1966; pg. 12; Issue 56758


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