Clan Boyd Society,
International
Notable and famous Boyds
BOYD, Alan Stephenson - US
administrator; 1st Secretary of Transportation
1967-1969 _1922--
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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
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BOYD, Federico - Panamanian
nationalist leader _1851-1924
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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
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BOYD, James - US army officer
and novelist _1888-1944
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BOYD, John - US military aviator
and fighter pilot _1927-1997
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BOYD, Stephen - Irish-US (Northern
Irish-born) movie actor _1928-1977
(changed
name to Boyd) RG Boyd
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BOYD, Thomas Alexander - US
author _1898-1935
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BOYD, Zachary - Scottish clergyman
and poet _1585?-1653
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BOYD ORR, John (of Brechin
Mearns)- 
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, (William) Merric
1888-1959
Ceramic artist, born in St
Kilda, Victoria, Australia, the elder 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.
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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.
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BOYD, Arthur Merric 1862-1940
Painter, born in Opoho, New
Zealand. He arrived in Australia in 1886,
and became particularly known
for his watercolours.
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BOYD, Arthur Merric Bloomfield
1920 --
Painter, sculptor, and potter,
born in Murrumbeena, Victoria, Australia,
the younger 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.
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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.
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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 squatters 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.
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BOYD, Guy Martin (à
Beckett) 1923-
Sculptor, born in Murrumbeena,
Victoria, Australia, the elder 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.
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BOYD, Martin (à Beckett)
1893-1972
(pseudonyms Martin Mills and
Walter Beckett)
Writer and poet, born in Lucerne,
Switzerland, the younger 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).
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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).
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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 ex-
cavated 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.
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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, 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