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Boyd was born in Hendrysburg, Ohio and reared in Cambridge, Ohio and Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he lived from 1909 to 1913. [1] He was the son of day laborer Charles William Boyd and his wife Lida (née Wilkens). Following his father's death, Boyd moved to California and worked as an orange picker, surveyor, tool dresser and auto salesman. [2]
Boyd was born in Accra, Gold Coast (present-day Ghana), [4] to Scottish parents, both from Fife, and has two younger sisters.His father Alexander, a doctor specialising in tropical medicine, and Boyd's mother, who was a teacher, moved to the Gold Coast in 1950 to run the health clinic at the University College of the Gold Coast, Legon (now the University of Ghana).
William Boyd (colonel) (fl. 1940s), US Army Air Forces base commander, referenced in Freeman Field mutiny; William Boyd (minister) (died 1772), Irish Presbyterian minister; William Boyd (priest) (1726–1795), Irish Anglican priest; William C. Boyd (1903–1983), American immunologist; William Boyd III (born 1968 or 1969), New Hampshire state ...
Drawing of Boyd as Sargeant Quirt in What Price Glory?.. Boyd was an early 20th century stage actor who appeared in two Broadway plays and then worked in motion pictures. To avoid confusion with the better-known performer working under the same name, William Boyd (best known for playing Hopalong Cassidy), Boyd adopted the name William "Stage" Boyd to emphasize his experience on the legitimate ...
William was born in Portsoy, Scotland, the sixth child of Dugald Cameron Boyd (a Presbyterian clergyman) and Eliza Marion (née Butcher) Boyd. Educated at the University of Edinburgh, he graduated M.B. Ch.B. in 1908, M.D. in 1911, [1] and went on to become trained and accredited as a neurologist, psychiatrist, and pathologist.
Boyd in 2009. Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay is a novel by William Boyd, published by Bloomsbury in 2015. [1] A fictional autobiography supposedly written by a woman, Amory Clay, born in 1908, [1] it includes extracts from her diary, written on a Hebridean island in 1977, with flashbacks from her career as a photographer in London, Scotland, France, Germany, the United States ...
Waiting for Sunrise is a 2012 espionage novel by William Boyd. The book was published on April 17, 2012, by Bloomsbury Press in the United Kingdom and by HarperCollins in the United States. Plot summary
William L. Boyd Jr. (February 17, 1825 – October 31, 1888) was an American slave trader, real estate broker, and steamboat captain from Nashville, Tennessee. [1] Boyd was a prominent figure in the slave trade in Tennessee during the mid-19th century and was involved in several notable incidents, including being charged with murder in 1883.