Sydney Boyd
Appearance
Sydney Adolphus Boyd (born Landour 7 January 1857 – d Bath 17 May 1947) was Archdeacon of Bath[1] from 1924 to 1938.[2]
Boyd was educated at Clifton College and Worcester College, Oxford. He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1880.[3] However, he chose an ecclesiastical path and was shortly appointed curate of Holy Trinity, Hampstead.[4] He held incumbencies in Norwich and Macclesfield;[5] after which he was rector of Bath Abbey[6] from 1902 to 1938.[7]
Notes
- ^ NPG details
- ^ Ecclesiastical News. The Times (London, England), Tuesday, 8 February 1938; pg. 17; Issue 47913
- ^ Wikisource. . p. 146 – via
- ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929/30 p137: Oxford, OUP, 1929
- ^ Ecclesiastical Intelligence The Times (London, England), Tuesday, 11 April 1893; pg. 12; Issue 33922
- ^ Abbey web site
- ^ 'BOYD, Ven. Sydney Adolphus', Who's Who 2016, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2015 ; online edn, Nov 2015 accessed 9 Sept 2016