Percy Ellen Algernon Frederick William Sydney Smythe, 8th Viscount Strangford was a British nobleman and man of letters.
Portrait of Percy Ellen Algernon Frederick William Sydney Smythe
Memorial tablet to Percy Smythe, 8th Viscount Strangford at Crimea Memorial Church
George Smythe, 7th Viscount Strangford, styled The Honourable George Smythe until 1855, was a British Conservative politician, best known for his association with Benjamin Disraeli and the Young Engla
Percy Smythe, 8th Viscount Strangford
…of Persian and Arabic before going east. It was the study of Ottoman history that led him to the languages of the Balkan Peninsula. On succeeding his brother as Viscount Strangford in 1857 he continued to live in Constantinople, immersed in cultural studies. At length, however, he returned to England and…
7th Viscount Strangford
Smythe's grave at Kensal Green Cemetery, London, pictured in 2014