Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd
| Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd | |
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| Born |
3 November 1825 Auchinleck, Scotland |
| Died | 1 March 1899 (aged 73) Bournemouth, England |
| Occupation | writer, minister |
| Notable work | The Recreations of a Country Parson |
Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd (3 November 1825 – 1 March 1899), miscellaneous writer, son of Rev. Dr. Boyd of Glasgow, was originally intended for the English Bar but entered the Church of Scotland, and was minister latterly at St. Andrews.
He was the son of Dr. James Boyd, born at Auchinleck Manse, Ayrshire, on 3 November 1825. After receiving his elementary education at Ayr, he studied at King's College School and the Middle Temple, London, with thoughts, apparently, of being an English barrister. "I am the only kirk minister," he once said, "who is a member of the Middle Temple." Returning to the university of Glasgow, he qualified for the ministry of the national church, gaining high distinction in philosophy and theology, and securing several prizes for English essays. He graduated B.A. at Glasgow in April 1846, and at the end of 1850 was licensed as a preacher by the presbytery of Ayr.
For several months Boyd was assistant in St. George's parish, Edinburgh, and on 18 September 1851 he was ordained parish minister of Newton-on-Ayr, where he succeeded John Caird. In 1854, he became minister of Kirkpatrick-Irongray, near Dumfries. Here he remained five years, maturing his pulpit style, and, writing under his initials of "A. K. H. B.," steadily gaining reputation in Fraser's Magazine with his Recreations of a Country Parson. Both as a parish minister and as a literary man he attracted attention, and was sought after for vacant charges.
In April 1859, Boyd was appointed to the parish of St. Bernard's, Edinburgh, and found the presbytery much exercised on the question of decorous church service, raised by the practice and advocacy of Dr. Robert Lee. Boyd seems to have intervened little in the controversy, but he sympathised with the desire for a devout and graceful form of worship, and he was afterwards a prominent member of the Churcli Service Society. In 1864 the university of Edinburgh conferred on him the honorary degree of D.D.
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