Zachary Boyd | |
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Born | 1585 Scotland |
Died | 1653 (aged 67–68) |
Occupation | religious writer |
Zachary Boyd (1585–1653) was a Scottish minister and university administrator who wrote many sermons, scriptural versifications and other devotional works.[1][2] He served as Dean of Faculties, Rector and Vice-Chancellor at the University of Glasgow during the 1630s and 1640s, and bequeathed a generous legacy to the university including his library and large manuscript collection of unpublished sermons and verse.[3]