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Edward Smyth (bishop)
Edward Smyth or Smith (1665–1720) was an Irish Protestant churchman, the bishop of Down and Connor from 1699.
==Life==
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 became a scholar at Trinity College, Dublin. in 1678, and graduated B.A. in 1681. In 1684 he proceeded M.A. and was elected a fellow. He later obtained the degrees of LL.B. in 1687, B.D. in 1694, and D.D. in 1696. In 1689, when Dublin was in the possession of James II, he fled to England, where he was recommended to the Smyrna Company, and made chaplain to the factory at Smyrna.
Smyth returned to England in 1693 with a fortune, and was appointed chaplain to William III, whom he attended for four years during the war in the Low Countries. On 3 March 1696 he was made dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. In 1697 he became vice-chancellor of Trinity College, Dublin, and on 2 April 1699 he was consecrated bishop of Down and Connor.〔
Smyth died at Bath, Somerset on 4 November 1720. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1695. He was also a member of the Philosophical Society of Dublin.〔
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