3-043-828 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Bust of Mr. T. J. Boyd, of Edinburgh, by W. Brodie, R.S.A., 1872. 'The Merchant Company of Edinburgh, incorporated in 1681 by Royal Charter, has the management of four great educational endowments, those of George Watson's Hospital, the Merchant Maiden Hospital, Daniel Stewart's Hospital, and Gillespie's Hospital and Free School, with an aggregate income of nearly £21,000 a year. Mr. Thomas Jamieson Boyd (head of the well-known Edinburgh publishing firm styled Oliver and Boyd), having been Master of the Merchant Company of Edinburgh for three successive years, has conceived and executed the design of a reform, which makes these large funds really useful in the instruction of the people...The members of the Merchant Company have testified their esteem for Mr. Boyd, and their recognition of the good work mainly effected by him, in the form of a presentation of his bust, and by placing his portrait in their own hall. The marble bust, of which we give an Illustration, from a photograph by Mr. Annan, is sculptured by Mr. W. Brodie, R.S.A. It was presented to Mrs. Boyd a fortnight ago'. From "Illustrated London News", 1872.