Canon Thomas Allen Blyth
DD (7 January 1844 – 19 July 1913), author, historian, editor of the
Worcester
Diocesan Calendar (1889),
Hon. Canon of
Worcester Cathedral (1898), examining Chaplain and
Commissary to the
Archbishop of Ottawa ,
Commissary to the
Bishops of Niagara (from 1890) and
Surrogate to the
Diocese of Worcester (from 1900).
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Early life
Thomas Allen Blyth was born in London on 7 January 1844, the second son of Henry Ralph Blyth of
Wivenhoe , Beaumont, London and
Bedford . He was educated at
Bedford Modern School and
Queen's College, Oxford (BA (Hons in Theology) 1882, MA 1885, BD 1888, DD 1892).
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Career
Blyth was an Assistant Master at the
Bedford Schools (1865–75) and
ordained in 1875. He was
Curate of
Wymondham , Norfolk (1875–77),
Clifton-upon-Dunsmore (1877–78),
Thame (1879–81) and St Saviour in the Parish of Upper Chelsea (1884–85).
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He was a Fellow of the Educational Institute of Scotland (1870); Hon. Fellow Academy of Roman Citizens (1870); PhD and MA,
University of Göttingen (1870).
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Blyth was Vice-Chairman of the Foleshill Board of Guardians (1887–92) and was made editor of the
Worcester
Diocesan Calendar in 1889.
[2] He was
Hon. Canon of
Worcester Cathedral (1898), examining Chaplain and
Commissary to the
Archbishop of Ottawa ,
Commissary to the
Bishops of Niagara (from 1890), Chairman of the Stoke School Board (1897–99) and
Surrogate to the
Diocese of Worcester (from 1900).
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Blyth was made a
Doctor of Divinity of the
University of Durham in 1901 and was a senior fellow of the
Geological Society of Edinburgh .
[2] In addition to his official church duties, Blyth was an author, translator and historian producing 38 works in 61 publications, many Latin translations.
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Family life
Blyth married Mary Jane, 3rd daughter of John Hands of
Grandborough House,
Grandborough , Warwickshire. They had a son and a daughter. He died on 19 July 1913.
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Bibliography
Sir William Harpur , Lord Mayor of London in 1561. Published 1864
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John Bunyan and his Church
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The Stranger's Guide to the
Bedford Schools, 1864
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Burt's
Bedford Directory and History of the Churches of Bunyan, Howard, and Wesley; John Jukes, 1866
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The
Bedford Directory and Almanac, 1866
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Carter's Directory and History of the Ancient Parish Churches of
Bedford , 1869
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Metallography as a Separate Science, 1871
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The History of
Bedford , 1873; John Huss, 1879
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Plato ’s Meno, literally translated
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The Oxford Logic Chart
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Terence's Andria, Phormio, and Heauton Timorumenos, literally translated
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The Oxford Handbook of Logic, 1880
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Xenophon ’s Memorabilia, I, II, IV, literally translated
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The Undergraduate's Guide to the Holy Gospels
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Lecture Notes on Human Physiology, 1881
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Questions and Exercises in Advanced Logic, 1881
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Rudiments of Faith and Religion
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Guide to Matriculation and Responsions at Oxford
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Livy's History of Rome, XXI, XXII, XXIII, literally translated, 1882
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Homer ’s Iliad, I to IV, Cæsar de Bello Gallico, I to IV, literally translated, 1883
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Plato ’s Apology of
Socrates , literally translated, 1884
Handbook for the Clergy, 1893
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The History of Stoke-in-Coventry, 1897
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The Thirty-nine Articles, 3rd edn, 1899
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Editor, Oxford Translations of the Classics
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The Oxford Science Primers
Oxford Aids to The Schools, 1878–85
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External links
References
^ Obituary in
The Times , Canon T.A. Blyth , 22 July 1913, p.11
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"Blyth, Rev. Thomas Allen, (7 Jan. 1844–19 July 1913), Editor of the Worcester Diocesan Calendar, 1889; Hon. Canon of Worcester Cathedral, 1898; Vicar, 1884, and Rector, 1907, of Stoke-in-Coventry; Chaplain of Coventry Union from 1887; Examining Chaplain and Commissary to Archbishop of Ottawa; Commissary to Bishops of Niagara from 1890; Surrogate Diocese of Worcester from 1900, etc" . WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO . 2007.
doi :
10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U183866 .
ISBN
978-0-19-954089-1 .
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"Blyth, Thomas Allen" . Retrieved 13 January 2015 .
^ Blyth, Thomas Allen (September 2010).
A Biographical Sketch of Sir William Harpur, Knight .
ISBN
9781166399276 . Retrieved 13 January 2015 .
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"A memoir of ... John Jukes ... senior pastor of Bunyan's church, Bedford" . Retrieved 13 January 2015 .
^ Blyth, Thomas Allen (1871).
"Metallography as a separate science; or, The student's handbook of metals" . Retrieved 13 January 2015 .