Henry Boyd (academic)

Henry Boyd (1831 – 4 March 1922) was a British clergyman, academic, and administrator at the University of Oxford.

[1] Boyd attained a BA degree from Hertford College, Oxford.

He was ordained in 1854 and was perpetual curate at St Mark's, Victoria Docks in Silvertown, London, from 1862 to 1874.

He was a friend of James Duncan (Sugar refiner, art collector), together they helped to improve the working conditions in London's East End during the 1870s.

[2] He commissioned the architect Sir Thomas Jackson to enlarge and improve the college, including a new hall and chapel, completed in 1907.