Francis Smythe (priest)
Francis Henry Dumville Smythe (1873–1966)[1] was the Archdeacon of Lewes from 1929 to 1946.[2][3]
Smythe was educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College and Emmanuel College, Cambridge.[4] He was ordained in 1898 and held curacies at South Petherton, Bunbury and Alfrick.[5] He held incumbencies in Horsted Keynes, Hove and Eastbourne; and died on 8 October 1966.[6]
Smythe was a prolific collector of watercolours, and in the 1950s, he donated his collection to the Dunedin Public Art Gallery and New Zealand's National Art Gallery.[3] The decision to make the donation to galleries in a county he never visited came after a long friendship with New Zealand art curator and gallery director Annette Pearse.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Grave Stone Photos
- ^ ‘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
- ^ a b c Sippel, Annika (14 November 2023). "A forgotten collector: Archdeacon Smythe and his collection of British watercolours in New Zealand". Tuhinga: Records of the Museum of New Zealand te Papa Tongarewa. 34: 105–123. doi:10.3897/TUHINGA.34.106803.
- ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory, 1951-52, London, OUP, 1951
- ^ "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
- ^ Obituaries The Times (London, England), Monday, Oct 10, 1966; pg. 12; Issue 56758
