Sydney Boyd

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[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]

Notes
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  2. Ecclesiastical News. The Times (London, England), Tuesday, 8 February 1938; pg. 17; Issue 47913
  3. "Clifton College Register" Muirhead, J.A.O. p25: Bristol; J.W Arrowsmith for Old Cliftonian Society; April, 1948
  4. Alumni Oxoniensis (1715–1886) volume 1.djvu/164 . p. 146 – via Wikisource.
  5. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929/30 p137: Oxford, OUP, 1929
  6. Ecclesiastical Intelligence The Times (London, England), Tuesday, 11 April 1893; pg. 12; Issue 33922
  7. Abbey web site
  8. '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
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Lancelot Fish		 Archdeacon of Bath
1924–1938		 Succeeded by
William Marshall Selwyn


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