Robert Boyd (civil servant)

Robert Boyd

3rd Accountant General and Civil Auditor
In office 29 September 1802 – 1 October 1806
Preceded by	Thomas Frazer
Succeeded by	Samuel Tolfrey
Treasurer of Ceylon
In office 1809–1812
Succeeded by	J. W. Carrington

Robert Boyd was the 3rd Accountant General and Civil Auditor in British Ceylon. He was appointed on 29 September 1802, succeeding Thomas Frazer, and held the office until 1 October 1806. He was succeeded by Samuel Tolfrey.^[1]

Sent as a civil servant to Ceylon in 1801, Boyd became Commissioner of Revenue, and was retired in 1836.^[2] He became Treasurer in 1809.^[3]

References

↑ "Former Auditor Generals". auditorgeneral.gov.lk. Retrieved 13 December 2013.
↑ Lennox A Mills (12 November 2012). Ceylon Under British Rule, 1795-1932. Routledge. p. 67 note 3. ISBN 978-1-136-26271-5.
↑ John Ferguson (1994). Ceylon in the Jubilee Year. Asian Educational Services. p. 256. ISBN 978-81-206-0963-1.

Legal offices
Preceded by Thomas Frazer	Accountant General and Civil Auditor 1802–1806	Succeeded by Samuel Tolfrey

Auditors General of Sri Lanka

Smith Frazer Boyd Tolfrey Plaske Bertolacci D'Oyly Tolfrey Carrington Marshall Wright MacCarthy Gibson Pennefeather Callander Douglas Barclay Ravenscroft O'Brien Swettenham Taylor Ellis Senior MacGregor Woods Morley Goonetilleke Smith Weerasinghe De Silva Fernando Settinayake Wijayasuriya Gamini Epa Sabry Mayadunne Pematilaka Swarnajothi Wijesinghe

Treasurer of Ceylon

Boyd Carrington Eden Drave Granville Carrington Granville Turnour Templer Caulfield Saunders Vane Wright O'Brien Saunders Lee Pennycuick Cameron Nicolle Senior Woods

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