title: Hugh Blythe
text: # Hugh Blythe
  
  Hugh Blythe (also Hugo Blythe) B.D. (died 1610) was a Canon of Windsor from 1572 to 1610 and Archdeacon of Leicester from 1589 to 1591.
  
  ## Career
  
  He was educated at King's College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in 1564, MA in 1567, BD.
  
  He was appointed:
  
  * Headmaster of Eton College ca. 1559
  * Rector of Appleby, Leicestershire 1572
  * Archdeacon of Leicester 1589 - 1591
  
  He was appointed to the sixth stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle in 1572 and held this until he died in 1610.
  
  