Sydney Adolphus Boyd (7 January 1857 – 17 May 1947) was Archdeacon of BathNPG details from 1924 to 1938.Ecclesiastical News. The Times (London, England), Tuesday, 8 February 1938; pg. 17; Issue 47913
Biography
Born in Landour in 1857, Boyd was educated at Clifton College"Clifton College Register" Muirhead, J.A.O. p25: Bristol; J.W Arrowsmith for Old Cliftonian Society; April, 1948 and Worcester College, Oxford. He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1880. However, he chose an ecclesiastical path and was shortly appointed curate of Holy Trinity, Hampstead.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929/30 p137: Oxford, OUP, 1929 He held incumbencies in Norwich and Macclesfield;Ecclesiastical Intelligence The Times (London, England), Tuesday, 11 April 1893; pg. 12; Issue 33922 after which he was rector of Bath AbbeyAbbey web site from 1902 to 1938.'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 On 25 June 1925, he was amongst the officiating clergy at the opening of the war memorial chapel at Monkton Combe School.Bath Chronicle 27 June 1925 He died in Bath in 1947, aged 90.
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