Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd
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| Born | 3 November 1825 |
| Died | 1 March 1899 (aged 73) |
| Occupation(s) | writer, minister |
| Notable work | The Recreations of a Country Parson |
Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd (3 November 1825 – 1 March 1899) was a Scottish writer, who originally intended for the
Life
He was born on 3 November 1825 in the manse of Auchinleck in Ayrshire, the son of James Boyd. He was educated at Ayr Academy. The family moved to the manse at Ochiltree in 1833. His father became minister of the Tron Kirk in Glasgow after he left home.[1]
Boyd later studied at King's College School and at the Middle Temple, London, training as an English barrister. Returning to the university of Glasgow, he qualified for the ministry of the national church. 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.[2]
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.[citation needed]
In April 1859, Boyd was appointed to the parish of St. Bernard's, in
In 1865, Boyd succeeded Park as minister of the first charge, St. Andrews.[
In May 1890, he was appointed moderator of the
He was interred in the Eastern Cemetery of St Andrews (south of the cathedral), against the south wall, with his first wife.[citation needed]
Family
Boyd married, in 1854, Margaret Buchanan, eldest daughter of Captain Kirk (71st regiment) of
In 1897, he married, following Margaret's death in 1895, Janet Balfour, daughter of Mr. Leslie Meldrum of Devon House near Clackmannan. She survived him, with five sons and one daughter of his first wife's family.[2]
Bibliography
- Recreations of a Country Parson (Series 1, 1859), (Series 2, 1861), (Series 3, 1878)
- The Graver Thoughts of a Country Parson (1862)
- Leisure Hours in Town (1862)
- Counsel and Comfort Spoken From A City Pulpit (1863)
- Sunday Afternoons at the Parish Church of a University City (1866)
- The Critical Essays of a Country Parson (1867)
- Lessons of Middle Age (1868) [3]
- Sunday Afternoons at the parish church of a university city (1869)
- Present Day Thoughts; Memorials of St. Andrew's Sundays (1871)
- The Autumn Holidays of a Country Parson (1878)
- Our Little Life: essays consolatory and domestic with some others (1882)
- Twenty-five years of St. Andrews, September 1865 to September 1890 (1893)
- St. Andrews and Elsewhere: Glimpses of Some Gone and of Things Left (1894)
References
- ^ a b Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae; by Hew Scott
- ^ a b c d Bayne 1901.
- ISBN 978-1-103-11146-6.
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bayne, Thomas Wilson (1901). "Boyd, Andrew Kennedy Hutchinson". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (1st supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.
External links
- Works by Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd at Internet Archive
- Cooper, Thompson (1884). . (eleventh ed.). London: George Routledge & Sons. p. 156.
- Hutchinson, John (1902). . A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices (1 ed.). Canterbury: the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple. p. 26.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London: J. M. Dent & Sons – via Wikisource.
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