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The Leeds Mercury (Leeds, England), Saturday, November 24, 1894; Issue 17672.
Some Old Yorkshire Divines.
Blythe Geoffrey, LL.D., son of William Blythe, of
Norton, near Sheffield, by a sister of Archbishop Rother-
ham, was born at Norton, and was brother to John
Blythe, Bishop of Salisbury, and master of King’s Hall,
Cambridge. Geoffrey Blythe was educated at Eton,
and elected to King’s College in 1483. He afterwards
proceeded to the degrees of LL.D., &c. In April 1493,
he became Prebendary of Strensall in the Church of
York, and in May following was collated to the Arch-
Deaconry of Cleveland. In April, 1496, he was ordained
priest, and in May following admitted Dean of York.
He was appointed master of King’s Hall in February,
1498, and was collated to the Archdeaconry of Sarum
in August, 1499. In 1502 he was sent on a special
embassy to the King of Hungary, and on his return
was appointed Bishop of Litchfield and Coventry, the
temporalities being restored to him in September, 1503.
In 1512 he was appointed Lord-President of Wales,
continuing in that office till 1524; and he resigned the
mastership of King’s Hall in 1528. He is said to have
died at London about 1530, and was buried at Lich-
field, before the image of St. Chad; a noble monu-
ment to his memory has been long destroyed. Bishop
Blythe in his lifetime built fair houses for the choristers
Of Lichfield Cathedral; also a chapel at Norton, in
which he erected an alabaster tomb for his parents, and
established a charity. He, with his Dean and Chapter,
collected all the statutes of the Cathedral of Lichfield,
and got the same confirmed by Cardinal Wolsey, as
Legate, in 1526. For additional particulars see Wood’s
“Athenae Oxon,” by Bliss; Cooper’s “Athenae
Cantab,” and Stephen’s “Dict. Of Nat. Biog.,” & c.
His brother, John Blythe, of Norton, near Sheffield,
Was Prebendary of York, and Archdeacon of Richmond,
Yorkshire; and afterwards Bishop of Salisbury. See
“Dict. Of Nat. Biog.,” &c.
Blythe Samuel, D.D,., Master of Clare Hall, now
College Cambridge (from 1678 to 1713), was born at
Doncaster, and there baptised, February 8th, 1635-6;
admitted of Clare Hall, Cambridge, as subsizar, April
17th, 1652, elected a Fellow and tutor in 1657; and
master of that college in 1678. In which office he con-
tinued until his death, on the 19th of April, 1713. He
also held the Rectory of Newtown, a very valuable
living in Cambridgeshire., in the gift of the Bishop of
Ely. He was not an author, and the college does not
possess any portrait of him. He was buried in the
Church of St. Edward, Cambridge, where there is a
marble monument, bearing a long Latin inscription
to his memory, a duplicate of which is in Clare Chapel,
By his will he bequeathed 6,000p to his college, the
income whereof was to be laid out in the purchase of
perpetual advowsons for the Fellows. Upon his monu-
ment is a shield with arms, “Argent, a chevron,
gules, between three lions rampant, sable,” surmounted
by the armorial bearings of his college. Dr. Blythe,
or Blyth, had five brothers – John Blyth, of Doncaster,
Alderman, and haberdasher, elected Mayor, September
25th, 1684; Richard Blyth, butler of Clare Hall
(executor of the doctor’s will, dated April 18th, 1713):
Daniel Blyth, probably the person who was admitted
subsizar of Clare Hall, July 1st, 1654: Thomas and
James, and a sister Mary, the wife of John Briggs, of
of Doncaster, Alderman. His nephew, John Blyth, son
of his brother of that name, was baptised at Doncaster,
September 12th, 1666; admitted sizar of Clare Hall,
Cambridge, July 6th, 1682, B.A. 1687, M.A. 1691, and
Fellow of the college 1689. Dr. Blythe’s father was
Samuel Blyth, of Doncaster, who was there buried as
“Clarke.” i.e.. probably parish clerk, Jjune 11th, 1674:
and administration to whom was granted to Lettice,
his widow, September 10th 1674. See Hunter’s “South
Yorkshire,” and “Yorkshire Diaries,” published by
Surtees Society, vol. 65. &c. The present Master of
Clare College, Cambridge, the Rev.Edw. Atkinson,
D.D., is also a Yorkshireman, and was educated at the
Leeds Grammar School; and the Rev. Matthew Wilkin-
son, D.D., also of Clare College, Cambridge, late Head
Master of Marlborough College, and formerly Master
of Huddersfield and Kensington Grammar Schools, was
also a Yorkshireman, and educated at the Leeds Gram-
mar School, both being natives of Leeds.
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