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BOYD, --- ; b. ; in Grant’s house list 1797. [Identified by Whitmore as Boyd, Hugh Stuart, 1781-1848 : “see new slip” : this was BOYD, HUGH STUART, son of Hugh Boyd (previously McAuley), Master-Attendant for EI Co. at Madras, barrister, essayist and journalist, and Frances Murphy; b 1781; Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, adm. pens. 24 Jul 1799, matr. 17 Dec 1800; resident at Hampstead; a Greek scholar and writer; blind for last twenty years of life; taught Greek to Elizabeth Barrett Browning; m. 16 Sep 1805 Ann Lowry (IGI) (perhaps “a lady of Jewish family “); d. 10 May 1848. DNB]

Boyd, John Gordon, son of Edwyn Gordon Boyd of Northwood, Middx, and Gladys, d. of Rob­ert Creighton; b. 3 Dec. 1918; adm. Jan. 1932 (G); left July 1936; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric, 1936, BA 1940, MA 1946; Gordon Highlanders 1940-5 (Maj.); HM For. Service 1946, Asst Principal FO; 2nd Sec. (Commercial) Rome 1946-9, Washington 1949-52; HM Consul (Commercial) New York 1954-7; FO 1957-9, retd 1959; pres. Thos de la Rue Inc., New York; World Bank consul­tant; m. Isobel Margaret, d. of William John Moir MB, Malayan medical service; d. 13 Dec. 1993

BOYD, SIR JOHN, BART., elder son of Sir John Boyd, Bart., MP, Danson Park, Kent, and Margaret, fifth dau. of Hon. Thomas Harley (qv); b. 5 Jun 1786; adm. 19 Sep 1797 (Clapham); in school list 1801; succ. father as 3rd baronet, 30 May 1815; m. 22 Sep 1818 Harriet, second dau. of Hugh Boyd, Ballycastle, co. Antrim; d. at Boulogne 19 Jan 1855.

BOYD, ROBERT JOHN, son of Robert Boyd MD, Bolton Row, Mayfair, London; b. 24 Oct 1855; adm. 23 Sep 1869; left Aug 1873; St. Thomas’s Hospital and Edinburgh Univ.; LM Edinburgh 1880; LRCP (Ed), LRCS (Ed) 1880; served as surgeon in Turco-Persian war 1876, Russian-Turkish war 1877-8, Zulu war 1879; d. at Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 15 May 1897.

BOYD, THOMAS; b.; adm.; QS 1703.

BOYD-CARPENTER, HENRY JOHN, eldest son of Right Rev. William Boyd-Carpenter KCVO DD, Bishop of Ripon, subsequently Canon of Westminster, and his first wife Harriet Charlotte, dau. of Rev. John Witherington Peers, Vicar of Tetsworth, Oxfordshire; b. 5 Jul 1865; adm. from St. Paul’s Sch. 26 Jan 1882; left Dec 1883; King’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. 6 Oct 1884, matr. Mich. 1884; BA 1887; MA 1892; President, Cambridge Union 1886; adm. Inner Temple 25 Jun 1886, called to bar 11 May 1892; one of HM Inspectors of Schools 1898-1902; Inspector-Gen., Ministry of Public Instruction, Egypt, 1902-20; m. 16 Dec 1902 Ethel MBE, younger dau. of Sir Francis Ley, Bart.; d. 1 Jun 1923.

BOYER, FRANCIS; b.; adm. (aged 12) Jun 1728; in school list 1731. [Probably Francis Bowyear, son of Francis Bowyear and Mary Petre, bapt. Lincoln’s Inn Chapel 2 May 1716 (IGI)] [Perhaps Francis Bowyear, Entering Clerk, Registrar in Chancery (Chamberlayne 1748), subsequently Registrar in Chancery, d. 5 Feb 1780] [Father Sworn Clerk, Six Clerks’ Office]

BOYER, WILLIAM; b.; adm. (aged 11) Jun 1728; in school list 1731. [Probably William Bowyear, brother of last, bapt. Lincoln’s Inn Chapel 31 Mar 1717] [Perhaps William Bowyear, Registrar in Chancery (Chamberlayne 1748), d. 10 Jun 1767 (will proved PCC 25 Jun 1767, as of Bloomsbury Square, Middlesex)]

BOYES, THOMAS; b.; adm. (aged 10) Jun 1720; left 1721.

BOYLE, CHARLES, VISCOUNT DUNGARVAN, elder son of John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork and Orrery (qv), and his first wife; b. 27 Jan 1729; adm. Apr 1738 (Taylor's); his progress at school is frequently mentioned in the Orrery Papers, 1903, i, 244-5, seq.; in school list 1744; St. Mary Hall, Oxford, matr. 23 May 1745; MP (I) Co. Cork from 1756; m. 18 May 1753 Susanna, dau. of Henry Hoare (under school list 1715, qv); d. 16 Sep 1759.