Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Boyd, Archibald
BOYD, The Very Rev. Archibald, D.D., born at Londonderry in 1803, was educated at the Diocesan College in that city, and at Trinity College, Dublin (B.A. 1823; M.A. 1834; B.D.and D.D. 1868). He was curate of the cathedral of Derry (1827); perpetual curate of Christ Church, Cheltenham (1842–59); honorary canon of Gloucester Cathedral (1857–67); and vicar of Paddington from 1859 till 1867, when he was appointed Dean of Exeter. He is the author of "Sermons on the Church," 1837, 2nd edit. 1844; "Letters on Episcopacy," 1839; "Episcopacy and Presbytery," 1841; "Rome and Oxford," 1843; "The Nature of and Necessity for the Reformation," 1850; "Progress and Results of Missions," 1864; "Intuition or Revelation?" 1864; "Baptism and Baptismal Regeneration," 1865; "The Place of Miracles in the Evidences of Christianity," 1866; "Confession, Absolution, and the Real Presence," 1867; "Letters on Church Extension;" "Modern Phases of Unbelief;" and "The Church of England, and what some people thought about her," 1877.