Francis Bertie Boyce

{{Infobox officeholder|image=The_Reverend_Canon_Boyce,_Julian_Ashton,_1917.jpg|birth_date=6 April 1844 |birth_place=Tiverton, Devon, England|death_date=27 May 1931|death_place=Blackheath, New South Wales|occupation=clergyman|office=President of the Council of Churches in New South Wales|term=1926}}

'''Francis Bertie Boyce''' (6 April 1844 – 27 May 1931), commonly referred to as Archdeacon Boyce, was an Australian clergyman and social reformer. A supporter of inter-church dialogue, in 1926 he was elected president of the recently formed Council of Churches in New South Wales.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article245768653 |title=Young at 82 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph (Sydney) |issue=14,478 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=5 May 1926 |access-date=4 September 2024 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>

==Honours== Mount Boyce is named in honour of Venerable Archdeacon Boyce.<ref name=gnb>{{NSW GNR|id=MnYbwpsy|title=Mount Boyce|accessdate=7 October 2013}}</ref>

Memorials to Boyce were placed in the Sydney and Bathurst cathedrals and his portrait by Julian Ashton was presented to the National Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1917. His memoirs were published posthumously in 1934 as ''Four-Score Years and Seven.''<ref name="ADB">{{cite book |chapter-url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/boyce-francis-bertie-5319 |title=Boyce, Francis Bertie (1844 - 1931)|access-date=2008-02-20 |author=K. J. Cable |chapter=Francis Bertie Boyce (1844–1931) |work=Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 7 |publisher=MUP |year=1972 |pages=368–369}}</ref>

==References== {{reflist}}

*{{Dictionary of Australian Biography|First=Francis Bertie|Last=Boyce|shortlink=0-dict-biogBe-Bo.html#boyce1}}

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