William Boyd Carpenter

The Right Reverend William Boyd Carpenter KCVO
"A man Right Reverend and Well-Beloved" Bishop Boyd Carpenter as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, March 1906
Born	(1841-03-26)26 March 1841 Liverpool, England
Died	26 October 1918(1918-10-26) (aged 77) Westminster, England
Residence	London, England
Occupation	Anglican cleric
Years active	1878–1918
Spouse(s)	Harriet Charlotte Peers Annie Maude Gardner
Parent(s)	Henry Carpenter Hester Boyd
Relatives	Archibald Boyd (uncle) Sir Archibald Boyd-Carpenter (son) Francis Wentworth-Sheilds (son-in-law) The Lord Boyd-Carpenter (grandson) Sir Thomas Boyd-Carpenter (great-grandson) The Viscountess Hailsham (great-granddaughter) William Boyd-Carpenter (son) Sir Henry Boyd-Carpenter (great-grandson) John William Oliver (great great grandson)

William Boyd Carpenter KCVO (26 March 1841, Liverpool – 26 October 1918, Westminster) was a Church of England cleric who became Bishop of Ripon and court chaplain to Queen Victoria.

William Boyd Carpenter was the second son of the Revd Henry Carpenter of Liverpool, perpetual curate of St Michael's Church, Aigburth, who married (marriage licence 1837 in Derry) Hester Boyd of Derry, sister of Archibald Boyd, Dean of Exeter. Her father was Archibald Boyd (born about 1764 of Saint Leonards, Shoreditch, London, England), who married Sarah Bodden there on 13 July 1789.

Carpenter was the uncle of Mrs Henry Williams of Moor Park House, Beckwithshaw, North Yorkshire. In 1897 he consecrated St Michaels and All Angels Church at Beckwithshaw, after she and her husband had funded its construction.

In 1864 Carpenter married his first wife, Harriet Charlotte Peers (daughter of the Rev. J. W. Peers, of Chislehampton), who bore him eight children:

Harriet died in 1887 and in 1883 Carpenter married his second wife, Annie Maude Gardner (daughter of W. W. Gardner), who bore him a further four children:

Carpenter's other descendants include:

Carpenter was educated at the Royal Institution, Liverpool, and St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and was appointed Hulsean lecturer at Cambridge in 1878. He held several curacies, was vicar of Christ Church, Lancaster Gate, from 1879 to 1884, canon of Windsor in 1882–84, and after 1884 Bishop of Ripon. In 1887 he was appointed Bampton lecturer at Oxford, and in 1895 pastoral lecturer on theology at Cambridge. In June 1901, he received an honorary doctorate of Divinity from the University of Glasgow.