Robert Boyd, 7th Lord Boyd

Robert Boyd, 7th Lord Boyd (November 1595 – 28 August 1628), was a Scottish noble.

Early life Robert Boyd was born in November 1595. He was the son of Jean ( Kerr) Boyd and Robert Boyd, Master of Boyd, who died v.p. in May 1597 (the son and heir apparent of Thomas Boyd, 6th Lord Boyd). After the death of his father, his mother married David Lindsay, 12th Earl of Crawford. They later divorced and she married Thomas Hamilton, of Robertoun. His maternal grandparents were Mark Kerr, 1st Earl of Lothian, and Margaret Maxwell (a daughter of John Maxwell, Lord Herries). Margaret was living as his wife as of 4 March 1616, but died s.p., in 1616. Robert Boyd, 8th Lord Boyd (–1640), who married Lady Anne Fleming, daughter of John Fleming, 2nd Earl of Wigtown, in 1639. Marion Boyd (1624–1661), who married Sir James Dundas, Lord Arniston, in 1641.

He died on 28 August 1628, aged 33. Boyd's will was dated 17 October 1623, probated 7 May 1632. His widow, an ardent Presbyterian, born between 1588 and 1594, died "very comfortably" at the house of her daughter Lady Scott, of Ardross, in the parish of Elie, shortly before 22 January 1646 and was buried on 6 February.