Francis Henry Dumville Smythe (1873–1966)Grave Stone Photos was the Archdeacon of Lewes from 1929 to 1946.‘SMYTHE, Canon Francis Henry Dumville’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 18 July 2016
Smythe was educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College and Emmanuel College, Cambridge.Crockford's Clerical Directory, 1951-52, London, OUP, 1951 He was ordained in 1898 and held curacies at South Petherton, Bunbury and Alfrick."Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900 " Part II. 1752–1900 Vol. v. Pace – Spyers, 1953 p581 He held incumbencies in Horsted Keynes, Hove and Eastbourne; and died on 8 October 1966.Obituaries The Times (London, England), Monday, Oct 10, 1966; pg. 12; Issue 56758
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. 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.
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