Robert Blyth, OSB (b Norton, Derbyshire 1470 - d Cambridge 1547) was a Bishop of Down and Connor [1] in the first half of the sixteenth century. [2]
Also the Abbot of Thorney Abbey, [3] he was first appointed on 16 April 1520; but accepted royal supremacy in 1539. He was deposed by Pope Paul III. Blyth also acted as a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Ely [4] from 1539 to 1541.
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