Palmer Smythies (1691-1776)
The eldest son of William Smythies; educated at Charterhouse and Sidney Sussex College,
Cambridge, he succeeded his father as rector of St Mary Magdalene, Colchester (1721), and
was headmaster of the Colchester Grammar School, 1727-76.
The eldest son of William Smythies; educated at Charterhouse and Sidney Sussex College,
Cambridge, he succeeded his father as rector of St Mary Magdalene, Colchester (1721), and
was headmaster of the Colchester Grammar School, 1727-76.