Pat Smythe (priest)


Patrick Murray "Pat" Smythe was an Anglican priest in the second quarter of the 20th century. He was born into a clerical family on 24 March 1860 and educated at Charterhouse and Keble College, Oxford.
Ordained in 1883, he was initially a curate at St Mark's, Swindon and then held incumbencies at Rockingham, Westbury and Kettering before being appointed Provost of St Ninian's Cathedral, Perth in 1911, a post he held for 24 years.
A great angler, he died on 19 March 1935, five days before his 75th birthday.