title: John Smyth (Master of Pembroke)
text: # John Smyth (Master of Pembroke)
  
  John Smyth or Smith (1744 – 1809) was a clergyman and Master of Pembroke College, Oxford.
  
  ## Education
  
  He was educated at John Roysse's Free School in Abingdon, (now Abingdon School) from 1756 to 1761.
  
  He earned a B.A (1765) and M.A (1769) at Pembroke. B.D. and Doctor of Divinity (D.D.) 1796.
  
  ## Career
  
  John Smyth became Master of Pembroke in 1796.
  
  The close relationship between Abingdon School and Pembroke College resulted in seven Old Abingdonians being appointed as consecutive masters at Pembroke between 1710 and 1843. They were Colwell Brickenden 1709–1714; Matthew Panting, 1714–1738; John Ratcliffe, 1738–1775; William Adams, 1775–1789; William Sergrove 1789–1796; John Smyth, 1796-1809 and George William Hall, 1809–1843.
  
  He was rector of Coln Rogers (1799), curate of Eastleach-Turville, rector of Rudford (1801), vicar of Fairford (1804) and canon of Gloucester (1796-1809). He was also a Steward of the OA Club in 1805.
  
  