Edward Smyth or Smith (1665–1720) was an Irish Protestant churchman, the bishop of Down and Connor from 1699.
[1] Smyth returned to England in 1693 with a fortune, and was appointed chaplain to William III, whom he attended for four years during the war in the Low Countries.
In 1697 he became Vice-Chancellor of the University of Dublin, and on 2 April 1699 he was consecrated bishop of Down and Connor.
[1] Smyth was the author of sermons, and contributed papers to the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, mainly relating to the customs of the Levant.
By his first wife whom he married circa 15 February 1696,[2] his cousin Elizabeth, daughter of William Smyth, Bishop of Kilmore, he had Elizabeth, who married James Stopford, 1st Earl of Courtown.