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Notable
and Famous Boyds
Origin of the Name
Reverand William
Boyd of Macosquin
James
Boyd-The Kilted Warrior
Glen "Slivers" Boyd, Early Motorcycle Racer (offsite)
BOYD: -THE FIGHTER PILOT WHO CHANGED THE ART OF WAR
Captain John
Sumner Boyd
Billy
Boyd's Web Site
(Pippin in "Lord of the Rings")
Famous Boyd
Graves
Boyd Politicians
BOYD, Alan Stephenson
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US administrator; 1st Secretary of Transportation
1967-1969 _1922--
BOYD, Anne 1946 --
Composer and flutist, born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She studied composition there and at York University, UK. After some years
teaching in England and Australia, she became founding head of the
department of music at Hong Kong University (1981). Her interest in
ethno- musicology, in Australian aboriginal music, and the ethnic music of Japan and Java, is reflected in such compositions as As I Crossed the
Bridge of Dreams and her children's opera, The Little Mermaid.
CARR-BOYD, Ann Kirsten
1938 -
Composer, teacher, and music historian, born in Sydney, New South Wales,
Australia. She studied at Sydney University, and became a leading authority on Aboriginal and early Australian music. Her many orchestral,
chamber, and instrumental compositions include Symphony in Three Movements (1964), Australian Baroque (1984), and Suite Veronese (1985).
BOYD, Arthur Merric
1862-1940
Painter, born in Opoho, New Zealand. He arrived in Australia in 1886, and became particularly known for his watercolours.
The Argus 14 Sep 1936 p1:
"Boyd - On the 13th September, at Sandringham, Emma Minnie, beloved
wife of Arthur Merric Boyd"
"Boyd - The Friends of MR. ARTHUR MERRIC BOYD are respectfully
informed that the funeral of his beloved wife, Emma Minnie, will leave
his residence, no. 5 Edwards street, Sandringham, THIS DAY (Monday,
September 14), at 2 p.m., for the Melbourne Crematorium, Fawkner. J.
MONKHOUSE and SON, funeral directors, 44 Bay road, Sandringham. Tel
XW2592."
The Argus 31 Jul 1940 p4:
"Boyd - On July 30, at 8 Wahroonga crescent, Murrumbeena, ARTHUR
MERRIE [sic]"
"Boyd - The funeral of the late MR. ARTHUR MERRIE [sic] BOYD, will
leave No. 8 Wahroonga crescent, Murrumbeena, THIS DAY (Wednesday 31st
July), at 10.30 a.m., for the New Melbourne Crematorium, Fawkner. J.
MONKHOUSE and SON, Funeral Directors, 124 Carpenter Street, Brighton.
Phone XA1162."
BOYD, Arthur Merric
Bloomfield 1920 --1999
Painter, sculptor, and potter, born in Murrumbeena, Victoria, Australia,
son of Merric Boyd. He studied at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School and at Rosebud, Victoria. After the war he exhibited
with the Contemporary Arts Society in Melbourne, then returned to Murrumbeena and the pottery
established by his father, where he worked
with his brother-in-law John Perceval. He moved to London in 1959, and took up a fellowship in creative arts at the Australian National
University, Canberra, in 1972. In 1993 he gave his 1000`ha
property "Bundanon' as a gift to Australia. "His
greatest achievement was that he was Australian of the Year in 1995,
which is the highest honour anyone can achieve in Australia while other
achievements include:
Australia Post's Australian Legend's Award for 1998 - with a series of
postage stamps released displaying his work and also of him. (One
Australian a year gets this award).
The gift of the 1000 ha 'Bundanon' property to the government and the
establishment of the Bundanon Trust was to establish an 'artist in
residence' programme to help up and coming artists and also there is a
gallery of Boyd art from five generations of Boyd artists on the
property.
He was awarded the companion of the Order of Australia in 1992 and the
Order of Australia in 1979 for service to the Arts.
He was awarded the Irish-Australian of the year in 1998. And in the same
year had his work published on the cover of Time magazine.
A tapestry designed by him is a centrepiece in the reception hall of
Parliament House
And one of the achievements that he is well known for in Australia was
that he was the Coordinator of the Save Lindy Chamberlain campaign that
worked to release her from prison - if any of you remember the story of
the woman whose baby was taken by a dingo and then was subsequently
convicted of murdering the baby (it was reported internationally - but
not a drop in the bucket compared to the impact it made here) and later
released due to the efforts of an Australia-wide campaign. He wrote a
book called 'Justice in Jeopardy' about the case. He was also the
President of the Port Phillp Conservation Council (Port Phillip includes
all of Melbourne and environs beaches and foreshore).
Martin a'Beckett Boyd. He was also brother to Merric Boyd and Guy Martin
a'Beckett Boyd middle name was named after him as he was his and Arthur
Merric Bloomfield's uncle. His Novel: 'Lucinda Brayford' was made into
an Australian Television mini-series .
Robin Gerard Penleigh
He designed the Ormond College and Baillieu Library at Melbourne
University and the fountain next to Flinders Street Station, Melbourne
(our main station).
He became a Commander of the British Empire in 1970. He died 1972
narrowly missing receiving a knighthood (they are not awarded
posthumously). (Cousin to Arthur, Guy and David; nephew to Martin, son
of Penleigh and grandson of Arthur Merric)
Robin's father is not mentioned in the famous section but he was an
excellent landscape artist and certainly acquired more fame than his
father Arthur Merric Snr who has a space on your site. His name is
(Theodore) Penleigh Boyd
He exhibited in the Royal Academy, London at the age of 21.
He won 2nd prize in the Federal Government's competition for a painting
of the site of the new national capital, Canberra (prior to Canberra
being built that is) and also won the Wynne prize for landscape in 1914.
He was a noted artist and pictures by him hang in the Melbourne and
Sydney National Galleries. It was considered that if he had not died in
a car accident at the age of 33 that he would have been the equal of
Streeton and McCubbin who are the foremost artists of his era.
(William) Merric Boyd - was known as the 'Father of Studio Pottery' in
Australia.
Emma Minnie a'Beckett Boyd was Arthur Boyd Snr wife and she is a
respected artist also whose art work hangs in the Melbourne National
Gallery as well.
David Fielding Gough Boyd b. 1924 - Son of Merric and younger brother to
Guy and Arthur is also one of Australia's top painters and is also known
for his aboriginal activism which has inspired the themes of a lot of
his artwork.
Lady Mary Nolan (nee Boyd) - Younger sister to Arthur, Guy and David
married firstly John Perceval and then secondly Sir Sydney Nolan. Arthur
Boyd, Sydney Nolan and John Perceval are considered the three foremost
Australian artists of their time (in that order).
The next generation after these have some very talented artists:
painters, sculptors, writers, actors, costume designers, etc and have
also started to collect awards and recognition. In Australia the 'Boyd
Family of Artists' is considered quite a phenomena in the art world.
Students at school are introduced to Arthur's work and read Martin and
Robyn's novels (and Kirstin Murray - nee Boyd, daughter of Guy - also
has her novels on the reading lists at local schools and has won awards
and grants for her work)"
Derry Talvainn (nee Boyd) (daughter of Guy Boyd) derry@artema.com.au http://www.artema.com.au/Boyd/
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BOYD, Augusto Samuel -
Panamanian physician and politician;
vice-president of Panama 1936-1939; president of Panama 1939-1940; son
of Federico Boyd _1879-1957........ More
info
BOYD, Belle
1843-1900
Confederate spy, born in Martinsburg, Virginia, USA. She brought information about Federal troops to Confederate commands, especially to
General "Stonewall' Jackson. She was arrested twice (1862, 1863)
and was captured on her way to England carrying letters from Jefferson Davis.
Capitalizing on her notoriety, she appeared on the London stage (1866) and the New York stage (1868), then took to the lecture circuit after
1886. For more
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BOYD, Benjamin
c.1796-1851
Australian colonist, born at Merton Hall, near Newton Stewart, Dumfries and Galloway, SW Scotland, UK. He arrived in Hobson's Bay in 1842, and
became one of the largest and most powerful person in SE New South Wales. He spent a fortune trying to found "Boyd Town' as a
commercial port. When the enterprise failed, he sailed off in 1849 to join the Gold
Rush in California.
BOYD, Federico
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Panamanian nationalist leader _1851-1924....More
info
BOYD, Guy Martin
à Beckett 1923-1988
Sculptor, born in Murrumbeena, Victoria, Australia, son of Merric Boyd. Starting as a potter, he moved on to sculpture in 1964. His
commissions include mural reliefs for Tullamarine (Melbourne) and Kingsford Smith (Sydney) airports.
Hawes, Harriet (Ann) BOYD
1871-1945
Archaeologist, educator, social activist; born in Boston, Mass. After graduating
from Smith College (1892), she went off to Greece to continue her studies; in 1897
she worked as a nurse during the Greco- Turkish war. She went to Crete in 1900,
and with the encouragement of Arthur Evans, began to excavate a Minoan site at
Kavousi; from 1901--05 she led a large team that excavated the Minoan town of Gournia, thereby
becoming the first woman to head a major
archaeological dig. She also became the
first woman to lecture to societies of the
Archaeological Institute of America (1902).
She married the English
anthropologist Charles Henry Hawes in 1906 and
in 1908 published her monumental work on Gournia. During World War
I
she went over to Corfu in 1916 to help nurse the Serbians; in 1917 she
organized a unit of Smith College graduates and directed their relief efforts in France, where she stayed until June 1918. From 1920 to
1936 she was on the faculty of Wellesley College. Always involved in
one political and social cause or another, she worked for woman suffrage,
protested the Sacco-Vanzetti executions, became involved in labor and economic issues during the Depression, personally protested the Germans'
annexation of Czechoslovakia, called for the U.S.A. to go to Europe's defense in World War II, and was a strong advocate of an international
body to promote unity and peace.
BOYD, Henry - Irish
clergyman and translator; completed 1st English verse
translation of Dante's "Inferno" 1785 and of Dante's entire
"The Divine
Comedy" 1802 _17XX-1832
BOYD, James - US army
officer and novelist 1888-1944, http://www.ncwriters.org/jboyd.htm
BOYD ORR, John
Scottish
agriculturist; Nobel Prize
in Peace 1949 _1880-1971 Biologist, born in Kilmaurs, East Ayrshire, SW
Scotland, UK. He studied at Glasgow University, became director of the
Rowett Research Institute and professor of agriculture at Aberdeen
(1942--5), and was the first director of the UN Food and Agriculture
Organization (1945--8). His pessimistic reports on the world food
situation got him a reputation as an apostle of gloom, but his great
services in improving that situation brought him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1949, in which year he was made a peer.
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BOYD, John - US military
aviator and fighter pilot _1927-1997
BOYD, Martin
(à Beckett)
1893-1972
(pseudonyms Martin Mills and Walter Beckett)
Writer and poet, born in Lucerne, Switzerland, the son of Arthur
Merric Boyd. Brought up in Melbourne, he lived for much of his life in Britain. His first novels, such as The Montforts (1928), appeared under
pseudonyms. His best work is now referred to as the Langton Tetralogy: The Cardboard Crown (1952), A Difficult Young Man (1955), Outbreak of
Love (1957), and When Blackbirds Sing (1962).
BOYD, Robin Gerard
Penleigh 1919-1971
Architect, critic, and writer, born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He reached a wide audience with his books Australia's Home (1952), The
Australian Ugliness (1960), and The Great Australian Dream (1972). His critical work shaped the direction of Australian architecture and
was acknowledged with several awards.
BOYD, Stephen - Irish-US
(Northern Irish-born) movie actor _1928-1977
(changed name to Boyd) RG Boyd
Theodore
Elliott Boyd - Scientist, played informative role in Polio fight
1950s.
BOYD, Thomas Alexander
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US author _1898-1935
Rev. William Boyd
of Macosquin BOYD, William
1952-
Novelist, born in Accra, Ghana. His early years were spent in Ghana and Nigeria, and he then attended Gordonstoun school, Scotland. He taught
English at Oxford until 1982. His novels, which often have an African setting, include A Good Man in Africa (1981, filmed 1994), Brazzaville
Beach (1990), and The Blue Afternoon (1993). His writing also includes short stories and the screenplays Good and Bad at Games (1985), Scoop
(1987), and Chaplin (1992).
BOYD, William (known as
Bill Boyd) (Hopalong Cassidy) 1898-1972
Movie actor and producer; born in Cambridge, Ohio, USA. He worked at odd
jobs until landing his first film role as an extra in Why Change Your Wife? (1920). A favorite of Cecil B DeMille, he revived his faltering
career when he played Hopalong Cassidy in a series of popular Westerns. He bought the rights to the character and revived him on television in
the 1950s.
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BOYD, William (Clouser)
1903-
Biochemist, born in Dearborn, MS. He studied at Harvard, and from 1948
taught at the Boston medical school as professor of immunochemistry. He
examined racial groups by systematically classifying blood samples on a
worldwide basis. By 1950, in his book Genetics and the Races of Man, he
was able to present evidence for the existence of 13 human races, distinguishable by blood type.
Boyd,
William Marshall (Ewing) (1873-1962) - Harris County, Texas - Judge 1918-1962.
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BOYD, (William) Merric
1888-1959
Ceramic artist, born in St Kilda, Victoria, Australia, son of Arthur Merric Boyd. He studied at the pioneering porcelain works at
Yarraville, Victoria, and then served with the Royal Flying Corps in World War 1 at Wedgwood,
Stoke-on-Trent. He returned to Australia in the
early 1920s, founding a famous studio at Murrumbeena, outside Melbourne,
and experimenting with new ceramic techniques.
BOYD, Zachary - Scottish
clergyman and poet 1585?-1653
Notable Artists - BOYD
BOYD, Byron Bennett -
Artist, b.1889,d.? - State: IA (Strongest
affiliation) Known for paintings: figure, landscape, still life
BOYD, Clarence - b.1855 -
d.1883 - State: KY (Strongest affiliation)
Known for paintings: Indian life, narrative, landscape
BOYD, Edward F. - b.1878
- d.1964- State: USA (Strongest affiliation)
Known for paintings: landscape
BOYD, Fiske - b.1895 -
d.1975 - State: PA (Strongest affiliation)
Often known for : mod landscape, printmaker
BOYD,
George - b.1873 - d.1941, Carver of Shore birds, Seabrook, New
Hampshire. More
Info
BOYD,
James Henderson 1927-2002, sculptor, carver, printmaker, etc
Ontario, Canada More
info
BOYD, Michael
(David)-
b.1936 - d.- State: NY (Strongest affiliation)
Often known for paintings: geometric other expression
BOYD,
Rutherford (John) -
b.1884 - d.1951,State: NJ (Strongest affiliation)
Often known for paintings: genre-street, dogs, landscape
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