Pat Smythe (priest) explained

Patrick Murray "Pat" Smythe^[1] (24 March 1860 – 19 March 1935) was an Anglican priest in the second quarter of the 20th century. He was born into a clerical family^[2] 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^[3] and then held incumbencies at Rockingham, Westbury^[4] and Kettering before being appointed Provost of St Ninian's Cathedral, Perth in 1911, a post he held for 24 years.^[5]

A great angler,^[6] he died on 19 March 1935, at age 74.^[7]

References

1. http://www.usbornefamilytree.com/charlie&janetsdeath.htm Usborne family tree
2. His father, also Patrick Murray Smythe, was the sometime Rector of Solihull>"Who was Who" 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007;
3. http://www.swindonnewtown.co.uk/St%20Mark.htm Parish web site
4. [Crockford's Clerical Directory]
5. ”Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689–2000" Bertie, D.M: Edinburgh T & T Clark; .
6. "The Diary of an All-Round Angler-extracts from the Fishing Journal Kept For Over Sixty Years 1872-1935 by the Rev. Patrick Murray Smythe" Smythe, PC (Ed): London, Faber and Faber, 1956
7. Obituary, The Times, Thursday, 21 March 1935; p. 16; Issue 47018; col D