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dAilts Obituary. 
_ Very Rev. George David Boyle, Dean of Salisbury. 
Died suddenly March 21st, 1901. Buried in the Cloisters. Born May 
17th, 1828, sixth son of Rt. Hon. David Boyle, Lord Justice General of 
Scotland, and his second wife, Camilla Catherine, d. of David Smythe, of 
Methven. He married, 1861, Mary Christina, d. of William Robbins, of 
Hagley (Worc.). Educated at Charterhouse and Ex. Coll.,Oxon. B.A. 
1851; M.A.1853. Deacon 1853; priest 1854 (Diocese of Worc.). Curate 
of Kidderminster, 1853—57; Curate of Hagley, 1857—60; Perpetual 
Curate of St. Michael’s, Handsworth, 1861—67; Rural Dean of 
Handsworth, 1866—67; Vicar of Kidderminster, 1867—80; Hon. 
Canon of Worcester, 1872—80; Rural Dean of Kidderminster, 1877—80 ; 
Dean of Salisbury, 1880 until his death. At Handsworth and at 
Kidderminster he took a keen interest in educational matters, being a 
governor of King Edward’s School at Birmingham, and the first chairman 
of the school board at Kidderminster. He was a man of broad sympathies 
with a very wide and scholarly knowledge of English literature—a 
knowledge which he was always ready to place at the service of Salisbury 
and the neighbourhood, in the shape of lectures and addresses. At 
Oxford he had been President of the Union, and in the course of his life 
he was brought into close contact with many of the most distinguished 
literary men of the nineteenth century, of whom he: speaks in his 
‘‘ Recollections,’ published in 1895. His kindness, courtesy, and 
generosity made him much esteemed at Salisbury by Churchmen and 
Nonconformists alike. It was largely due to him that the £15,000 lately 
spent on the repairs of the Cathedral spire was so quickly raised. Aman 
of many friends and by them much beloved. 
Truth, May 28th, 1901, says of him :—‘‘ Dean Boyle was an excellent 
clergyman and an admirable preacher, and at the same time an accom- 
plished scholar, a consummate raconteur, a man of great intellectual 
power, fine literary taste, sparkling wit, and of the widest reading, and 
one of the very best talkers of the last fifty years . . . He wasa 
contributor to the Saturday Review in its earliest and most brilliant days.” 
Obit. notices, Standard, March 22nd; Guardian, March 27th; Devizes 
Gazette, March 28th; Wilts County Mirror, March 22nd, 29th, and 
April 5th; Salisbury Journal, Illustrated London News (with portrait), 
March 30th; Times, Dewsbury Reporter, reprinted in Wilts County 
Mirror, April 5th; Salisbury Diocesan Gazette, April, 1901. 
The following list of books and articles by him does not profess to be 
in any way complete :— 
1868. ‘‘ Confession according to the Rule of the Church of England. 
