SMYTH, Thomas, clergyman, born in Belfast, Ireland, 14 July, 1808 ; died in Charleston, South Carolina, 20 August, 1873. He was educated in Belfast and London, and in 1830 came with his parents to New York. He entered Princeton theological seminary in the same year, was ordained in 1831, and from 1832 until his death was pastor of the 2d Presbyterian church of Charleston, South Carolina Princeton gave him the degree of D. D. in 1843. He collected a valuable theological library of about 12,000 volumes, and was the author of a large number of books, among which are "Lectures on the Prelatical Doctrine of Apostolic Succession " (Boston, 1840) ; "Ecclesiastical Catechism of the Presbyterian Church" (1841) ; " Presbytery and not Prelacy the Scriptural and Primitive Polity" (1843; Glasgow, 1844) ; "History, etc., of the Westminster Assembly" (New York, 1844); "Calvin and his Enemies" (Philadelphia, 1844); " Prelatical Rite of Confirmation Examined" (New York, 1845); "The Name, Nature, and Functions of Ruling Elders" (1845); "Union to Christ and His Church" (Edinburgh, 1846); "The Unity of the Human Races proved to be the Doctrine of Scripture, Reason, and Science" (New York, 1850; Edinburgh, 1851); "Nature and Claims of Young Men's Christian Associations" (Philadelphia, 1857)" "Faith the Principle of Missions" (!857); "Why Do I Live" (1857); "Well in the Valley" (1857); trod "Obedience, the Life of Missions" (1860).