Charles Boyd (archdeacon)

The Ven. Charles Twining Boyd was Archdeacon of Colombo from 1891 until 1901.
His father was The Ven. William Boyd, of University College, Oxford, who was Archdeacon of Craven and Honorary Canon of Ripon from 1860, and his mother was Isabella Twining, the eldest daughter of George Twining of Sheen, Surrey. His uncle was the mining industrialist Edward Fenwick Boyd and his aunt Mary married Joseph Stanley Hawks JP DL, Sheriff of Newcastle.
His paternal grandfather was the armigerous banker William Boyd Junior, of Newcastle upon Tyne and Burfield Priory, Gloucester, who was a partner in the Newcastle Old Bank. His paternal grandmother was Esther Boyd.
He was educated at Rugby School and University College, Oxford. After a curacy in Newbury he was Rector of Princes Risborough from 1877 to 1879. He was Chaplain of St. Peter's Church, Colombo, and to the British Armed Forces in Sri Lanka, from 1879 until his appointment as Archdeacon.