Born: 1847, Mon­te­go Bay, Ja­mai­ca.

Died: Feb­ru­a­ry 16, 1928, Lon­don, Eng­land.

Boyd stu­died un­der Sa­bine Bar­ing Gould, then at­tend­ed Wor­cest­er Coll­ege, Ox­ford. Or­dained an Ang­li­can priest in 1877, he event­u­al­ly be­came Vi­car at All Saints Church in Nor­folk Square, Lon­don (1893-1918). He con­trib­ut­ed his tune “Pen­te­cost” to the 1868 col­lect­ion Thir­ty-Two Hymn Tunes Com­posed by Mem­bers of the Un­i­ver­si­ty of Ox­ford.

Sources

Music

1. Pentecost