Charles Smythies


Charles Alan Smythies was a British colonial bishop in the 19th century.
Smythies was born in Colchester, educated at Felsted School and Trinity College, Cambridge, and ordained in 1869. His first post was a curacy in Great Marlow after which he was Vicar of Roath in Cardiff.
He was the fourth Bishop of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa, and was consecrated on 30 November 1883, serving as Bishop in Central Africa until that diocese was split in 1892, and then of one of the parts, Zanzibar, until his death.