Archibald Boyd

Archibald Boyd

Archibald Boyd (1803–1883) was Dean of Exeter in the Church of England.Anglican Portal

Life

Boyd, son of Archibald Boyd, treasurer of Derry, was born at Derry in 1803, and, after being educated at the diocesan college in that city, proceeded to Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated B.A. 1823, proceeded [Master of Arts (Oxbridge and Dublin) M.A.] 1834, and B.D. and D.D. long after, in 1868.cite web | last =Boase | first =George C. | authorlink = | coauthors = | title =Mawe, John (1764–1829), mineralogist | work = Dictionary of National Biography Vol. VI | publisher =Smith, Elder & Co. | date = 1886 | url = http://www.oxforddnb.com/templates/olddnb.jsp?articleid=3102 | format = HTML | doi = | accessdate = 2007-11-21]

He officiated as curate and preacher in the cathedral in Derry from 1827 to 1842, and here he first distinguished himself as an able and powerful preacher, as a controversialist, and as an author. At that time the controversy between the presbyterians and the Church of Ireland in the north of Ireland was at its height. Boyd came to the defence of the church and preached a series of discourses in reply to attacks. These discourses attracted great attention, and were afterwards printed. In 1842, he was appointed perpetual curate of Christ Church, Cheltenham. With Francis Close, his fellow-worker here, he joined in a scheme for establishing additional Sunday schools, infant schools, and bible classes. For eight years after 1859, he was entrusted with the care of Paddington.

Dean of Exeter

On 11 November 1867 he accepted the deanery of Exeter, and resigned, with his vicarage, an honorary canonry in Gloucester Cathedral, which he had held since 1857. He was a preaching and a working dean. He was a firm but moderate evangelical, and was a voluminous writer on the ecclesiastical questions of the day. His name is connected with the--at the time well-known--Exeter reredos case. The dean and chapter erected in the cathedral, 1872–3, a stone reredos, on which were sculptured representations in bas-relief of the Ascension, the Transfiguration, and the Descent of the Holy Ghost, with some figures of angels. In accordance with a petition presented by William John Phillpotts, chancellor of the diocese, the bishop (Dr. Temple) on 7 January 1874 declared the reredos to be contrary to law and ordered its removal. After much litigation touching the bishop's jurisdiction in the matter, the structure was declared not illegal by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on 25 February 1875Law Reports, BULWER'S Admiralty and Ecclesiastical Reports, iv. 297–379 (1875); COWELL'S Privy Council Appeals, vi. 435–67 (1875)]

Death and legacy

On the continent during the autumn of 1882, Boyd met with an accident at Vienna, from the effects of which he never fully recovered. He died at the deanery, Exeter, on 11 July 1883, bequeathing nearly £40,000 to various societies and institutions in the diocese of Exeter. He left behind his wife, Frances, the daughter of Thomas Waller of Ospringe, and widow of the Rev. Robert Day Denny. She herself died on 6 January 1877.

Works

His works include:
* "Sermons on the Church, or the Episcopacy, Liturgy, and Ceremonies of the Church of England" 1838
* "Episcopacy, Ordination, Lay-eldership, and Liturgies" 1839
* "Episcopacy and Presbytery" 1841
* "England, Rome, and Oxford compared as to certain Doctrines" 1846
* "The History of the Book of Common Prayer" 1850
* "Turkey and the Turks" 1853
* "Baptism and Baptismal Regeneration" 1865
* "Confession, Absolution, and the Real Presence" 1867
* "The Book of Common Prayer" 1869

He also printed many single sermons and minor publications.

References

Notes

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