Rev. Edmund Smith

The Biographical History of Gonville and Caius College (Mich 1579 - Mich 1580) shows a Edmund Smythe of Harrow on the Hill, son of Robert Smythe, mediocris fortunae. School, Harrow, three years, and Northolt (Northall) , one year. Age 15. Admitted sizar, Nov. 17 1579. Tutor, Mr. Rabbet, fellow. B.A. 1583-4; M.A. 1588. Incorporated at Oxford, July 10, 1593. Scholor to L. Day 1587. Under-master of Merchant Taylors' School, 1588; Head-master 1592-9. He then obtained a benefice and petitioned for a contribution for the first-fruits. His son was admitted in 1614.

In 1590, Rev. Edmund Smythe was rector of Tenby; previously rector of Stackpole Elidyr, Pembrokeshire, Wales, and previously to that headmaster of the Merchant Taylors' School in London.

Edmund married Alice Barry, daughter of Nicholas Barry II and Anne Lording, on 23 Jul 1593 in Saint Lawrence Pountney, London, England. (Alice Barry was born about 1575 in England.)