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SMYTH, ROBERT, son of Robert Smyth, Peterborough, Northants, grocer; b.; at school under Freind nearly three years (J. E. B. Mayor & R. F. Scott, Admissions to St. John’s Coll. Camb., ii, 11); St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. sizar 26 Jun 1717, aged “past 17”, matr. 1717; BA 1720/1; MA 1724; ordained deacon (Peterborough) 23 Sep 1722; Domestic Chaplain to Catherine, widow of John Leveson Gower, 1st Baron Gower; Rector of Woodstone, Hunts., from 5 May 1730; member, Spalding Gentlemen’s Society 12 Mar 1726; an antiquary who formed extensive manuscript collections; assisted Cole with his History of the University of Cambridge; d. after bathing in river Nene 15 Sep 1761.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.