A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices/Boyd, Andrew Kennedy Hutchison
Author and Scottish Divine.
Admitted 25 April, 1842.
Eldest son of Dr. James Boyd, of Ochiltree, co. Ayr. He was born at Auchinleck Manse, Ayrshire, 3 Nov. 1825, and was educated at Glasgow University for the Scottish Ministry, which he entered in 1851. After holding many other cures he was appointed minister at St. Andrews, where he spent the rest of his life in ministerial and literary work. His first essays in the latter way were in the form of contributions to Fraser's Magazine, under the title of Recreations of a Country Parson, under the initials A. K. H. B., by which he is still best known. For his literary eminence the University of St. Andrews conferred upon him in 1889 the degree of LL.D. In 1890 he occupied the position of Moderator of the General Assembly, which he filled with "archiepiscopal dignity." He died 1 March, 1899, and was buried in the ground of the Cathedral of St. Andrews.
Besides the Recreations above alluded to, his best known writings, A. K. H. B. is the author of some twenty works to be found in most catalogues, including a memoir of himself, entitled Twenty-five years at St. Andrews (1892), with further Last Years (1896). Mr. Boyd refers to himself as the "only kirk minister who is a member of the Middle Temple."