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ANDREW KENNEDY HUTCHISON BOYD (1825—1...

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 353 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANDREW See also:KENNEDY HUTCHISON See also:BOYD (1825—1899)  , Scottish author and divine, was See also:born at Auchinleck See also:manse fn See also:Ayrshire on the 3rd of See also:November 1825 . He studied at See also:King's See also:College, See also:London, and at the See also:Middle See also:Temple, with the See also:idea of practising at the See also:English See also:bar . Returning to See also:Scotland, however, he entered See also:Glasgow University and there qualified for the Scottish See also:ministry, being licensed as a preacher by the See also:presbytery of See also:Ayr . He served in See also:succession the parishes of See also:Newton-on-Ayr, Kirkpatrick-Irongray near See also:Dumfries, St See also:Bernard's, See also:Edinburgh, and finally, in 1865, became See also:minister of the first See also:charge at St See also:Andrews . Here he advocated an improved See also:ritual in the Scottish See also:church, his See also:action resulting in the See also:appointment by the See also:general See also:assembly of a See also:committee, with See also:Boyd as convener, to prepare a new hymnal . In 1890 he was appointed See also:moderator of the general assembly, and fulfilled the duties of the position with admirable dignity and tact . He died at See also:Bournemouth on the 1st of See also:March 1899 . Dr Boyd was a very famous preacher and talker, and his desultory essays have very much of the See also:charm of his conversation . Among his numerous publications may be specially mentioned the two See also:works (each in three See also:series), Recreations of a See also:Country See also: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) .

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