Sydney Boyd

Former Archdeacon of Bath

Sydney Adolphus Boyd (7 January 1857 – 17 May 1947) was Archdeacon of Bath^[1] from 1924 to 1938.^[2]

Born in Landour in 1857, Boyd was educated at Clifton College^[3] and Worcester College, Oxford. He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1880.^[4] However, he chose an ecclesiastical path and was shortly appointed curate of Holy Trinity, Hampstead.^[5] He held incumbencies in Norwich and Macclesfield;^[6] after which he was rector of Bath Abbey^[7] from 1902 to 1938.^[8] On 25 June 1925, he was amongst the officiating clergy at the opening of the war memorial chapel at Monkton Combe School.^[9] He died in Bath in 1947, aged 90.

Notes

^ NPG details
^ Ecclesiastical News. The Times (London, England), Tuesday, 8 February 1938; pg. 17; Issue 47913
^ "Clifton College Register" Muirhead, J.A.O. p25: Bristol; J.W Arrowsmith for Old Cliftonian Society; April, 1948
^ Alumni Oxoniensis (1715–1886) volume 1.djvu/164 . p. 146 – via Wikisource.
^ 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
^ Bath Chronicle 27 June 1925