Philip Smythe, 4th Viscount Strangford

Philip Sydney Smyth (14 March 1715 – 29 April 1787[1]) was a Church of Ireland clergyman and fourth Viscount Strangford in the Peerage of Ireland.[2] He succeeded to the viscountcy on 8 September 1724.[1]

Career

Ecclesiastical

He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin.[3] King George II appointed him Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin in 1746 but the chapter successfully argued that the Crown was not the patron, and he was dispossessed.[4] He was successively Prebendary of Killaspugmullane in Cork Cathedral;[5] Precentor of Elphin (1746–52);[6] Dean of Derry (1752–69);[7] and Archdeacon of Derry[8] (1769–74).[9][2][10]

Political

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.[11][12] 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.[13]

Family

In 1741 Strangford married Mary, daughter of Anthony Jephson, MP for Mallow and his second wife Hannah Rogerson. They had six children: Mary-Anne (1745–1823) and Anne-Philippa (1749–1830), both unmarried; Robert, Philip, and Frances, who all died young; and finally Lionel (1753–1801), who also took holy orders before succeeding as 5th Viscount.[2][14]

References

Sources
  • Cotton, Henry (1849). Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies in Ireland. Vol. 3: Ulster. Hodges and South. pp. 334, 338. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
  • Ulster Journal of Archaeology, Vol IV 1898
  • Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593-1860)
  • Cracroft's Peerage: The Complete Guide to the British Peerage

Citations
  1. "Name 4055: Philip Smyth". Irish Legislation Database. Queen's University Belfast. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
  2. Brady, William Maziere (1863). "Killaspugmullane". Clerical and parochial records of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross. Vol. 1. Dublin: Printed for the author by A. Thom. pp. 155–156.
  3. Alumni Dublinenses: a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860)" Burtchaell, George Dames/Sadleir, Thomas Ulick (Eds) p767: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
  4. Cotton 1849 p.334
  5. ”Fasti ecclesiae Hibernicae: the succession of the prelates and members of the Cathedral bodies of Ireland Vol I” Cotton, H p256: Dublin, Hodges,1850
  6. ”Fasti ecclesiae Hibernicae: the succession of the prelates and members of the Cathedral bodies of Ireland Vol IV” Cotton, H p138: Dublin, Hodges,1850
  7. ”Fasti ecclesiae Hibernicae Vol III p334 (ibid)
  8. Journal Article "The Estate of the Diocess of Derry." Part IX. Archdeacons of Derry (Continued) George Downham and William Alexander Reynell Ulster Journal of Archaeology Second Series, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Oct., 1897), pp. 56-64
  9. Cotton, Henry (1850). Fasti Ecclesiæ Hibernicæ: The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies in Ireland. Vol. 4: Connaught. Hodges and Smith. p. 138. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
  10. Cotton 1849 p.338
  11. "23 & 24 George III c.59: An Act for disabling Philip, Lord Viscount Strangford, from sitting in parliament or making any proxy therein, and also from sitting and voting on the trial of any peer". Irish Legislation Database. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
  12. Howell, Thomas Bayly (1817). "569. Proceedings against Philip Lord Viscount Strangford for acting criminally and corruptly as a Lord of Parliament in Ireland". A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors. Vol. 22. T. C. Hansard for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. pp. 161–176. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
  13. Dickson, David; Ó Gráda, Cormac (2003). Refiguring Ireland: Essays in Honour of L.M. Cullen. Lilliput Press. p. 197. ISBN 9781901866841.
  14. "Strangford". Debrett's Genealogical Peerage of Great Britain and Ireland. William Pickering. 1847. p. 716.
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