William Edmund Smyth (1858[1]–1950) was an Anglican bishop in the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first two of the twentieth.
[4] Made a deacon in 1882 at Ely Cathedral and ordained priest in 1883 also at Ely[5][6] his first posts were curacies at St Mary the Less, Cambridge and St Peter's, London Docks.
From 1889 to 1892 he was a Missionary and Theological Tutor at Isandhlwana[8] before elevation to the episcopate[9] as the first Bishop of Lebombo.
[10] He was consecrated a bishop on 5 November 1893 in Grahamstown Cathedral, by the Bishops of Cape Town, of Bloemfontein, of Grahamstown, of Pretoria, of St John's, of Kaffraria and of Zululand.
[11] Retiring as bishop in 1912, he was warden of the Anglican Hostel at the South African Native College, now the University of Fort Hare until retirement in 1932.