BOYD, KENNEDY HUTCHISON (1825 99). A Scottish divine and author, horn at Auchinleek, in Ayrshire. He studied at King's College and at the Middle Temple in London, evidently with a view to the law, hut he took his bachelor's degree at Glasgow (1846). Li eensed to preach by the Presbytery of Ayr in 1850. he became assistant in Saint George's Church, Edinburgh. and in 1851 minister of Newton-on-Ayr, as successor of John Caird. From 1854 to 1859 he was minister of Kirkpatrick Irongray. near Dumfries. While there he gained a wide reputation for his Recreations of a Country Parson, contributed under the initials A. K. TT. II. to Fraser's Magazine. in 1859 lie was appointed to Saint Bernard's, Edinburgh, and in 1865 he became of the first charge at Saint Andrews. For the part he played in literature and in the Church councils, he was soon the best known among the Scottish divines of his day. In 1889 he received the de gree of LL.D. from Saint Andrews, and in 1890 he was appointed Aloderator of the General As sembl•. He died at Bournemouth, and was
buried at Saint Andrews. The Recreations of a Country Parson (1859, 1861, 1878) appeared in three series. lie published an extremely inter esting series of autobiographical sketches bear ing the titles: Twenty-lire Years of Saint An drews (15'92); Saint Andrews and Elsewhere (1894) ; ()erosional and immemorial Days (]S95); and Lost of Saint Andrews (18913). Among his other publications are (;rarer Thoughts of a Country ( 1862) ; Leisure Hours in 'Town ( 18(i2 ) : The Common pla•e Philosopher in Torn and Country (1862); ,l i Holidays of a Country Parson ( 1864) ; Critical Essays of a Country Parson (180); Present-day Thoughts (1871); Our Little Life, two series (18:82-84) Our //oni•/,y Comedy and Tragedy (1887) ; The Best Last (18SS); and To Merl the Day, and East Coast Days and Mem cwies ( 1889 ) •