Richard Smyth (theologian)

Smyth reading 1 Corinthians 13:3 ("If I give my body to be burned and have not love, I gain nothing") at the burning of Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley in a woodcut from Foxe's Book of Martyrs.

Richard Smyth (or Smith) (1499/1500, Worcestershire, England – 9 July 1563, Douai, France) was the first person to hold the office of Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Oxford and the first Chancellor of the University of Douai.