The Rev. Blythe Hurst, Vicar of Collierley, Durham, the distinguished linguist, recently, in his seventy-seventh year. It is stated that, in early life, he was a blacksmith, and that while at the anvil he acquired a knowledge of French, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac, and Sanscrit. He was ordained in 1842.

Source: The Illustrated London News, July 8, 1882, p.50