ANDREW

See also:

• KENNEDY
• KENNEDY, BENJAMIN HALL (1804-1889)
• KENNEDY, THOMAS FRANCIS (1788-1879)
• KENNEDY, WALTER (c. 1460–c. 1508)

KENNEDY HUTCHISON

See also:

• ANDREW KENNEDY HUTCHISON BOYD (1825—1899)
• BOYD, ROBERT BOYD, LORD (d. c. 1470)
• BOYD, ZACHARY (1585?-1653)

BOYD (1825—1899)  , Scottish author and divine, was born at Auchinleck manse fn Ayrshire on the 3rd of November 1825 . He studied at King's College, London, and at the Middle Temple, with the idea of practising at the English bar . Returning to Scotland, however, he entered Glasgow University and there qualified for the Scottish ministry, being licensed as a preacher by the presbytery of Ayr . He served in succession the parishes of Newton-on-Ayr, Kirkpatrick-Irongray near Dumfries, St Bernard's, Edinburgh, and finally, in 1865, became minister of the first charge at St Andrews . Here he advocated an improved ritual in the Scottish church, his action resulting in the appointment by the general assembly of a committee, with Boyd as convener, to prepare a new hymnal . In 1890 he was appointed moderator of the general assembly, and fulfilled the duties of the position with admirable dignity and tact . He died at Bournemouth on the 1st of March 1899 . Dr Boyd was a very famous preacher and talker, and his desultory essays have very much of the charm of his conversation . Among his numerous publications may be specially mentioned the two works (each in three series), Recreations of a Country Parson (1859, 1861 and 1878), and Graver Thoughts of a Country Parson (1862—1865 and 1875); he also wrote Twenty-five Years at St Andrews (1892), and St Andrews and Elsewhere (1894) .