Andrew Boyd (bishop)
Andrew Boyd, Bishop of Argyll (c. 1566 – 22 December 1636) was a Scottish bishop. He was the natural son of Thomas Boyd, 6th Lord Boyd (see Scots Peerage vol V, p. 167. M.A. Glasgow 1584).
Biography[]
Boyd was the parson of Eaglesham, and was preferred to the see of Argyll, as their Bishop, in the year 1613. He was recorded as "a good man, and did much good in his diocese, where he always resided."[citation needed]
Family[]
He married Elizabeth Conyngham, daughter of Adam, of Auchenharvie [Fasti vol VIII, p. 332]. They had six sons and one daughter.
Death[]
Boyd died on 22 December 1636. He is interred in the graveyard of the High Kirk, Dunoon, Scotland.[1]
References[]
- Specific
- ^ Colegate's Guide to Dunoon, Kirn, and Hunter's Quay (Second edition) - John Colegate (1868), page 8
- General
- Keith, Robert (1824). An Historical Catalogue of the Scottish Bishops: Down To The Year 1688. Edinburgh: Printed for Bell and Bradfute. pp. 289–290.
- (2015). "The Peerage: A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe". p. 528.
- Jamie Reid Baxter: Mr. Andrew Boyd (1567-1636): A neo-Stoic bishop of Argyll and his writings, in Sixteenth Century Scotland: Essays in honour of Michael Lynch, ed. J. Goodare & A. Macdonald, Brill 2008
Categories:
- 1566 births
- 1636 deaths
- 17th-century bishops in Scotland
- Members of the Convention of the Estates of Scotland 1617
- Members of the Parliament of Scotland 1628–1633
- Members of the Convention of the Estates of Scotland 1630
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