Blyth, George Francis Popham

BLYTH, GEORGE FRANCIS POPHAM: Anglican bishop in Jerusalem and the East; b. at Beverley (9 m. n.n.w. of Hull), Yorkshire, in 1832. He was educated at Lincoln College, Oxford (B.A., 1854), and was ordered deacon in 1855, and ordained priest in the following year. He was successively curate of Westport St. Mary's, Wiltshire (1855–61), and Sigglesthorne, Yorkshire (1861–63), and chaplain to the earl of Kimberley (1863–66). He then went to India, was chaplain of the ecclesiastical establishment at Allahabad (1866–67), and was attached to the cathedral of Calcutta and chaplain to the bishop of Calcutta (1867–68). He was then stationed successively at Barrackpur, Bengal (1868–74), Naini-Tal, North-West Provinces (1874–77), and Fort William, Bengal (1877–1878), after which he was archdeacon of the pro-cathedral at Rangoon from 1879 to 1887. In the latter year he was consecrated bishop in Jerusalem and the East. He has written The Holy Week and Forty Days (2 vols., London, 1879).