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Boycott, Stephen James Branthwaite, son of Rev. George Alfred Branthwaite Boycott, Rector of West Halton, Lincs, and Eily St Clair, d. of Capt. George Osborn Springfield, 5th Dragoon Guards, of Holt, Norfolk; b. 26 Dec. 1915; adm. Sept. 1929 (KS); left July 1934; Peterhouse Camb., matric. 1934, BA 1937; 2nd Lieut. RA Jan. 1936, Lieut. Jan. 1939, Capt. Jan. 1944, Maj. Jan. 1949; retd 1958; wounded (France) May 1940, despatches Dec. 1940; asst master The King's Sch. Gloucester 1958-62; bred and trained horses; m. 1st 1941 Edna Marion, d. of Sqdn Ldr James Stanley Curtis RAF; 2nd Rosemary, widow of Donald Landels Henderson and d. of Thomas Rawling Bridgwater, barrister-at-law; d. circa 1965.

BOYD, ALFRED BLACK PRINGLE, son of John Pringle Boyd, Priory Road, London, River Plate merchant, and Mary Ann Black (IGI); b. Buenos Aires, Argentina 15 Jul 1863; adm. (G) 2 Oct 1875; left Aug 1879; commercial clerk, shipping (1881 census); lived in Buenos Aires for some years, subsequently returning to England; d. 7 Apr 1908.

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)]