John St. Clair Boyd (1858–1918) was an Irish gynaecologist, surgeon and first president of the Belfast Gaelic League.
Biography
editBoyd was born at Cultra House, Holywood, Co. Down as the only son of John Kane Boyd, co-proprietor of the Blackstaff Mill.[1] Boyd, a member of the Church of Ireland, was born in Holywood, County Down and studied medicine at Queen's College,in 1886. Belfast.[2] He worked for a time in Birmingham and returned in 1888 to Belfast to work at the Hospital for Sick Children, Queen Street, as assistant surgeon. He later became gynaecologist at the Ulster Hospital for Children and Women.[3]
In 1895, he became the first President of the first Belfast branch of the Gaelic League, formed in east Belfast under the patronage of other committed unionists: Boyd's minister, the Rev. John Baptiste Crozier,[4] and Orange Order Grand Master, the Rev. Richard Rutledge Kane.[5][6]: 86–87 In its early years, Boyd may ave been the League's largest financial donor.[1] He was also involved with the Dublin Pipers' Club and adjudicated at musical festivals. In the 1890s he was a member of the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club, for which he wrote a number of articles.[1]
Boyd married Helen Anne Cochran Macadam on 1 November 1887 at Duddingston Parish Church, Edinburgh.[7]
References and sources
edit- ^ a b c "Boyd, John St Clair | Dictionary of Irish Biography". www.dib.ie. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
- ^ "John St Clair Boyd". www.newulsterbiography.co.uk. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
- ^ Dictionary of Ulster Biography
- ^ "The Gaelic Revival Movement in East Belfast – Great War Gaeilgeoirí of East Belfast". Retrieved 14 March 2021.
- ^ Geoghegan, Patrick (2009). "Kane, Richard Rutledge | Dictionary of Irish Biography". www.dib.ie. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
- ^ Ó Snodaigh, Pádraig (1995). Hidden Ulster, Protestants and the Irish Language. Belfast: Ultach Trust, Lagan Press. ISBN 1873687354.
- ^ [1] Family tree
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