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

Born in Landour in 1857, Boyd was educated at Clifton College 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. He held incumbencies in Norwich and Macclesfield; after which he was rector of Bath Abbey from 1902 to 1938. On 25 June 1925, he was amongst the officiating clergy at the opening of the war memorial chapel at Monkton Combe School. He died in Bath in 1947, aged 90.

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1. NPG details
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
9. Bath Chronicle 27 June 1925

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