Thomas Smyth (Archdeacon of Glendalough)

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Thomas Smyth LL.D. was an Irish Anglican priest. [1]

The son of Thomas Smyth Bishop of Limerick, [2] he was born in Drumcree, County Westmeath and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. [3] He was appointed Archdeacon of Glendalough in 1723 and served until 1751. [4]

Notes

  1. Marsh's Library
  2. William Courthope (1838). Debrett's Complete Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Printed for J. G. & F. Rivington. p. 649. Retrieved 14 March 2013.
  3. Alumni Dublinenses: a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593-1860), Burtchaell, George Dames/Sadleir, Thomas Ulick (eds), p. 766: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935.
  4. Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the Prelates- Volume 2 Cotton, H., p. 80: Dublin, Hodges, 1848.


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