Francis Henry Dumville Smythe (1873–1966)[1] was the Archdeacon of Lewes from 1929 to 1946.
[4] He was ordained in 1898 and held curacies at South Petherton, Bunbury and Alfrick.
[5] He held incumbencies in Horsted Keynes, Hove and Eastbourne; and died on 8 October 1966.
[3] The decision to make the donation to galleries in a county he never visited came after a long friendship with New Zealand art curator and gallery director Annette Pearse.
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