William Smyth was a seventeenth century Anglican bishop in Ireland.[1] He was the ancestor of the prominent landowning family of Barbavilla Manor, Collinstown, County Westmeath.[2]
He acquired large estates in County Westmeath. Some of these were inherited by his eldest son Ralph, a barrister of Gray's Inn, who spent much of his life in England, but Ranaghan and Collinstown passed to his third son William. Another son, James, was Archdeacon of Meath. The family home, Barbavilla Manor, belonged to the Smyth family for two centuries.[13]
His episcopal papers are a valuable source of information on the Church of Ireland after 1660, and in particular on his conflict with the Presbyterian Church in County Cavan.
^National Library of Ireland Collection List No. 120 "Papers of the Family of Smyth of Barbavilla"
^"Alumni Dublinenses: a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860)Burtchaell, G.D/Sadlier, T.U p767: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935
^"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" Cotton, H. p358 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878
^"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3 " Cotton, H. p341/2 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878
^"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3 " Cotton, H. p292 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878
^"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 4 " Cotton, H. p71 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878
^"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" Cotton, H. p351 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878
^"Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3 " Cotton, H. p168 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878
^"The register of the parish of St. Peter, Dublin, 1669–1761" p 458Parish Register Society of Dublin, William Pollard & co, 1911