Boyd, Zachary (1585–1653)

Scottish minister. He taught at the Protestant College of Saumur, France, until the town was occupied by Louis XIII in 1621 and the Huguenots were persecuted. Returning to Scotland, he became minister of the Barony parish, Glasgow, and was rector of Glasgow University 1634–35 and in 1645. He was a noted preacher and a staunch Covenanter.

He wrote many books, notably The Last Battell of the Soul in Death (1629), and some verse, including Psalms of David in Meeter and Zion's Flowers, the latter being metrical versions of biblical scripture, often known as ‘Boyd's Bible’.