James_Smyth_(priest)
James Smyth (priest)
Irish Anglican priest (1683–1759)
James Smyth (1683–1759) was an 18th-century Anglican priest in Ireland.[1]
The son of Bishop William Smyth, and of Mary Povey, daughter of Sir John Povey, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, [2] he was born in Raphoe and educated at Trinity College, Dublin.[3] Smyth was Archdeacon of Meath from 1732 until his death in 1759.[4]
He married Catherine Vesey, one of the numerous children of John Vesey, Archbishop of Tuam, by his second wife Anne Muschamp, and had several children.