About Hugh Blythe
Hugh Blythe was a priest.
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.
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English priest
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Hugh Blythe died in 1610.
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