Philip Smythe LLD (1715 - 1787)

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Died 29 Apr 1787 at age 72 in Palmerston, County Dublin, Ireland

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Biography

Church of Ireland Clergy

Philip was the son of Endymion Smythe and Anne Elizabeth (Larget de Bresville).

He entered Trinity College Dublin on 12 October 1733. B.A. 1736, LL.D. (honoris causa) Oct 1751. ^[1]

He was presented as Prebendary of Killaspugmullane (Cork) by the Crown by patent dated 11 November 1743 [Lib. Mun.]; and instituted on 24 March 1744. In 1746 he was presented by the Crown as Precentor of Elphin. His patent is dated 7 April 1746; he was instituted on 26th May, and installed on 26th July [D. Reg.] On 21 April 1752, he resigned, and was made Dean of Derry.

He was presented Dean of Derry on 7 April 1752 [Lib. Mun.]; and instituted on 12th [D. R.] In 1769 he resigned his deanery, in exchange for the archdeaconry. He was collated Archdeacon of Derry on 2 June 1769 (FF.), but appears to have resigned in 1774.

He sat in the Irish House of Lords until 1784, when he was excluded by Act of Parliament after being tried and convicted of corruption for soliciting a bribe of £200 from the applicant in a court case that was pending before the House. The scandal was exacerbated by the fact that it came less than two years after the Irish Lords had regained final appellate jurisdiction from the British House of Lords.

Philip married Mary Jephson, daughter of Anthony Jephson of Mallow Castle, co. Cork, Ireland in 1741. ^[2]

Children

1. Mary Anne (1745–1823) died unmarried
2. Anne Philippa (1749–1830), died unmarried
3. Robert, died young
4. Philip, died young
5. Frances, died young
6. Lionel, b. 19 May 1753, 5th Viscount, married Maria Eliza Philipse, eldest daughter of Col. Frederick Philipse, of Philipsburg, New York, North America, in 1779.

He died on 29 April 1787 and did not leave a will. ^[3]

Death Notice - Kentish Gazette May 11, 1787

DEATHS. Last week, near Palmerstown, in Ireland, Lord Viscount Strangford.

Sources

1. ↑ FindmyPast - Alumni Dublinenses - 1924 Edition Note: Published in 1924, this is the first edition Alumni Dublinenses, a register of provosts, professors, graduates and students of Trinity College Dublin, Ireland's oldest university.
2. ↑ http://census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/dm/IRE_DIOC_007246530_00148.pdf
3. ↑ http://census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/dw/IRE_DIOC_007246589_00249.pdf

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• An Anglo-Irish Miscellany
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• Fasti ecclesiae Hibernicae: the succession of the prelates and members of the Cathedral bodies of Ireland by Henry Cotton, 1789-1879
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• Vol 3. - The Province of Ulster, Pg 334, 338
• Vol 4 - The Province of Connaught, Pg 138
• Wikipedia - Philip Smythe, 4th Viscount Strangford