James Rowland Boyd (1916-1994)

It is with great regret that we record the death of Professor J R Boyd after a long illness. Professor (Jim) Boyd was a contributor to Ullans 1 and Ullans 2 on the subject of Robert Huddleston — the ‘Bard of Moneyreagh’ — an Ulster-Scots poet whose work had a particular fascination for him.

Jim Boyd, a native of county Down, graduated with his BA and BD degrees from Queen’s University, and was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1942. He ministered in Great Victoria Street from 1948, and held the post of Professor of Practical Theology in the Assembly’s Union College from 1963-1983. From 1953-1960 he was Convenor of the Inter-Church Relations Committee, and in 1970 was Moderator of the Synod of Belfast.

With such a distinguished career as a Classical and Theological scholar, we in the Ulster-Scots Language Society were particularly honoured when Jim Boyd (accompanied by Mrs Boyd) attended our Society’s Inaugural Meeting at Craigavon House in 1992. Indeed, on that occasion, he took it upon himself to express his thanks to all those who had shown the initiative in forming the Society, and by so doing in Ulster-Scots, became the first person to address the Society in our own native tongue.

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