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Francis Smythe (priest)
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Francis Henry Dumville Smythe (1873–1966)[1] was the Archdeacon of Lewes from 1929 to 1946.[2][3]
Smythe was educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College and Emmanuel College, Cambridge.[4] He was ordained in 1898 and held curacies at South Petherton, Bunbury and Alfrick.[5] He held incumbencies in Horsted Keynes, Hove and Eastbourne; and died on 8 October 1966.[6]
Smythe was a prolific collector of watercolours, and in the 1950s, he donated his collection to the Dunedin Public Art Gallery and New Zealand's National Art Gallery.[3] The decision to make the donation to galleries in a county he never visited came after a long friendship with New Zealand art curator and gallery director Annette Pearse.[3]
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