Percy Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford
- Percy Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford
Percy Clinton Sydney Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford, GCB, GCH (1780–1855) was an Irish diplomat.
He was at Harrow and graduated from Trinity College, Dublin in 1800, entered the diplomatic service, and in the following year succeeded to the title of Viscount Strangford in the Peerage of Ireland. In 1817e married Ellen, daughter of Sir Thomas Burke, Bt.
He was ambassador to Portugal (1806), Sweden (1817), Ottoman Turkey (1820), and Russia (1825), ["Burke's Peerage", "s.v." "Strangford, Viscount".] and translated the "Rimas" of Luís de Camões, and was created Baron Penshurst in the United Kingdom. His son, George, was an active figure in the Young England movement of the early 1840s.
As ambassador to the Sublime Porte, he had opportunities to assemble fragments of Greek sculpture. Among his collection of antiquities was the "Strangford Shield", a 3rd century CE Roman marble that reproduces the shield of Athena Parthenos, Phidias' sculpture formerly in the Parthenon. The "Strangford Shield" is conserved in the British Museum.
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