Sir John Boyd of Maxpoffle
{{Short description|Scottish businessman & lord (1826–1893)}}
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Sir John Boyd of Maxpoffle JP (1826–1893) was a 19th-century Scottish businessman who served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh from 1888 to 1891.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/42194/lord-and-lady-provost-boyd-and-their-family-sir-john-boyd-1826-1895-lord-provost-edinburgh-1888-1891|title=Alexander Hutchison: Lord and Lady Provost Boyd and their family (Sir John Boyd 1826 - 1895. Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1888 - 1891)|website=National Galleries Scotland|access-date=29 October 2021}}
Life
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He was born in Edinburgh in 1826 and appears to have had multiple careers from house agent to upholsterer and even an undertaker. He had premises at 2 York Place.Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1885
He joined Edinburgh Town Council in 1881 and became Lord Provost in 1888. Whilst Lord Provost he lived at 11, Abercromby Place in Edinburgh's Second New Town.Edinburgh and Leith Post Directory 1891 His Town Clerk during office was William Skinner of Corra.
His knighthood and title were conferred by Queen Victoria c.1891. The title "of Maxpoffle" derives from his country property of Maxpoffle House, between Bowden and Newtown St. Boswells in the Scottish Borders. The house was an impressive Scots Baronial mansion.{{Canmore|num=100046|desc=Maxpoffle}}
Family
He was married to Isabella Lawson, daughter of John Lawson WS from Biggar in Peeblesshire.
Their eldest son John Boyd (b. 1856) became an advocate operating from 2 Abercromby Place.Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1896 He later became Sheriff John Boyd.
A further son, William Boyd (November 25, 1861 - August 29, 1945) was also a lawyer: he married Laura Scotia Crerar (August 1, 1861 - September 4, 1946) of Pictou, Nova Scotia. They lived at 18 Drummond Place, and then 26 Inverleith Place, in Edinburgh. Their only two children, 2nd/Lt. Nigel John Lawson Boyd and Lt. William Noel Lawson Boyd, were killed in the First World War and memorialised in Bowden Kirk in the Scottish Borders with a plaque by Sir Robert Lorimer.{{cite web|url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/13312|title=Lieutenant N J L Boyd and Second Lieutenant W N L Boyd|website=Imperial War Museums}}
A further son, Rev. Arthur Hamilton Boyd MC TD (b.1869) was a distinguished army chaplain.
Their youngest daughter Bethia Theodora married Thomas Harry Lee Jellicoe, rector of St Peter's Chailey.{{Cite ODNB |title=Jellicoe, (John) Basil Lee (1899–1935), housing reformer and Church of England clergyman |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-34170 |access-date=2024-05-22 |date=2004 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/34170}} Their son was Fr. Basil Jellicoe, an Anglo-Catholic "slum priest" and housing reformer.
Boyd died at his country home in Maxpoffle, Roxburghshire on 9 October 1893.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=drFEAAAAIBAJ&sjid=rLUMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4143%2C850562 |title=Death of Sir John Boyd |work=The Glasgow Herald|date=11 October 1893 |page=6 |accessdate=10 April 2018}}
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Category:Businesspeople from Edinburgh
Category:Lord provosts of Edinburgh
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