George Francis Popham Blyth[1] (25 April 1832[2] – 5 November 1914) was an Anglican bishop in the last decades of the nineteenth century and the first two of the twentieth.
[3] He was educated at St Paul's School[4] and Lincoln College, Oxford, and ordained in 1885.
[5] After a curacy at St Mary, Westport, he spent 20 years in India and Burma[6] as a missionary (ending this part of his career as Archdeacon of Rangoon).
[8] To raise funds for his own work he started the Good Friday Offering, still observed in the Episcopal Church of the USA.
[9] Unlike his predecessor Samuel Gobat, who had resorted to proselytising among Christians of other, mostly Orthodox denominations, legalised by the Porte by a ferman in 1850 issued under the pressure of the Protestant powers of Britain and Prussia, Blyth preferred missions among Jews and Muslims.