Boyd, Robert (2)

Boyd, Robert

a Scotch divine, was born in 1578, and studied at the University of Edinburgh. Passing over to France, he was made professor at the Protestant Seminary of Montauban, and in 1608 professor at Saumur. Returning to Scotland, he became professor of theology at Glasgow 1615, and died in 1627. He wrote In Epist. ad Ephes. Prcelectiones (London, 1652, fol.).Allibone, Dictionary of Authors, i, 231; Darling, Cyclopedia Bibliographica, i, 403.

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Boyd, Robert (1)

a Methodist Episcopal minister, was born in Westmoreland Connty, Pa., April 5, 1792. He united with the Church in 1811, was received into the Baltimore Conference in 1815, transferred to Pittsburgh Conference in 1825, became a superannuate in 1860, was a member of the General Conferences of 1844 and 1856, and died at Barnesville, O., July 4, 1880. He was of decided convictions, conscientious, and faithful. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1880, p. 242.

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Boyd, Robert (2)

a Scotch divine, was born in 1578, and studied at the University of Edinburgh. Passing over to France, he was made professor at the Protestant Seminary of Montauban, and in 1608 professor at Saumur. Returning to Scotland, he became professor of theology at Glasgow 1615, and died in 1627. He wrote In Epist. ad Ephes. Prcelectiones (London, 1652, fol.).Allibone, Dictionary of Authors, i, 231; Darling, Cyclopedia Bibliographica, i, 403.

Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature