Samuel Blythe

For the American writer and newspaperman, see Samuel George Blythe. For the British sea captain, see Samuel Blyth.

Samuel Blythe, D.D. was Master of Clare College from 1678 until his death.[1]

Blythe was born in Doncaster and educated at Clare College, Cambridge. He became Fellow in 1658. He was ordained a deacon in the Church of England in 1667.[2] He held livings at Everton, Bedfordshire and Newton-in-the-Isle. Blythe was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge between 1684 and 1685.[3]

He died on 19 April 1713.[4]

  1. ^ 'Politics, Patronage and Newtonianism: The Cambridge Example' John Gascoigne The Historical Journal Vol. 27, No. 1 (Mar., 1984), pp. 1-24 Published by: Cambridge University Press
  2. ^ theclergydatabase
  3. ^ Full List of Vice-Chancellors of the University of Cambridge
  4. ^ Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part I. 1209-1751 Vol. i. Abbas – Cutts, (1922) p170