Boyd

Boyd, REV. ANDREW KENNEDY HUTCHISON, D.D., son of the parish minister of Auchinleck, Ayrshire, where he was born November 1825, was educated at King's College, London, and Glasgow University, where he took the highest honours in philosophy and theology. He was in succession minister in three Scottish parishes before his settlement at St Andrews. He first became known in literature by his familiar essays contributed to Fraser's Magazine under the now well-known initials A. K. H. B., most of which have been reprinted—some of these, in three series of them as The Recreations of a Country Parson (1859-61). Three volumes of reminiscences—Twenty-five Years of St Andrews (2 vols. 1892) and St Andrews and Elsewhere (1895)—were his last considerable work. He died 1st March 1899.