Palmer Smythies

(1691-1776)

LBT ID: PaSmyth1776	B/BAP: 1691-10-23 DIED: 1776-12-25
SOURCES: Venn
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.
REFERENCES TO Palmer Smythies: William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch. IX. 1776-1777 Found 1: ¶ 4