Zachary Boyd was an eminent Scottish divine of the 17th century. He was born before 1590 in Ayrshire and died in 1653 or 1654. After studying at Glasgow University he went to the College of Saumur, in France, and in 1611 he was made a regent in this university. In consequence of the persecution of the Protestants he was obliged in 1621 to return to his native country, and two years later was appointed minister of the Barony parish, Glasgow, and was thrice elected rector of the university there. He wrote many works, amongst which the principal is the Last Battell of the Soule in Death. His Zion's Flowers, a collection of metrical translations of Scripture history, often called Zachary Boyd's Bible, was bequeathed along with many other manuscripts and a large sum of money to the University of Glasgow. It is a quaint specimen of the devotional culture of the time. Research Zachary Boyd
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