Preceded by Endymion Smythe |
Philip Smythe 4th Viscount Strangford 1724 - 1787 |
Succeeded by Lionel Smythe |
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
He died on 29 April 1787 and did not leave a will. [3]
Death Notice - Kentish Gazette May 11, 1787
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