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Very Rev. G-eorge David Boyle, Dean of Salisbury. 



Died suddenly March 21st, 1901. Buried in the Cloisters. Born May 

 17th, 1828, sixth son of Bt. 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 Bobbins, of 

 Hagley (Wore). Educated at Charterhouse and Ex. Coll., Oxon. B.A. 

 1851; M. A. 1853. Deacon 1853 ; priest 1854 (Diocese of Wore). Curate 

 of Kidderminster, 1853 — 57 ; Curate of Hagley, 1857 — 60 ; Perpetual 

 Curate of St. Michael's, Handsworth, 1861 — 67 ; Bural Dean of 

 Handsworth, 1866—67 ; Vicar of Kidderminster, 1867—80 ; Hon. 

 Canon of Worcester, 1872 — 80 ; Bural 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 

 " Becollections," 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. A man 

 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 was a 

 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 Bule of the Church of England. 



