Sir John Boyd of Maxpoffle

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.

[1] He was born in Edinburgh in 1826 and appears to have had multiple careers from house agent to upholsterer and even an undertaker.

Whilst Lord Provost he lived at 11, Abercromby Place in Edinburgh's Second New Town.

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[6].

Their youngest daughter Bethia Theodora married Thomas Harry Lee Jellicoe, rector of St Peter's Chailey.[7].