Mark Boyd (basketball)
Mark Boyd may refer to: * Mark Boyd (footballer) (born 1981), English football midfielder * Mark Boyd (author) (1805–1879), English author * Mark Alexander Boyd (1562–1601), Scottish poet and soldier of fortune * Mark Frederick Boyd Mark Frederick Boyd (1889–1968) was an American physician and writer. He taught and performed research in public health. He went to work for the Rockefeller Foundation in 1921, and thereafter specialized in the study of malaria. He also wrote a ...

Mark Boyd (footballer)
Mark Edward Boyd (born 22 October 1981) is an English former football player and manager. He scored 19 goals in 298 league and cup appearances in an 11-year career in the English Football League, Scottish Football League and Conference, and also later spent six years playing non-League football below the Conference level. Beginning his career as midfielder with Newcastle United, he never made the first team and instead signed with Port Vale in 2002. After two years with the Vale, he moved north to the Scottish side Gretna via Carlisle United. Failing to make an impact, he returned to the Football League with a Macclesfield Town loan in 2005. After a short spell with Accrington Stanley in 2006, he joined non-League side Southport. He joined the Irish club Sligo Rovers in 2007 before turning to the English non-League scene with Barrow the following year. He joined Workington via Droylsden in 2011 before switching to Celtic Nation in June 2013. He helped Celtic Nation to a second ...
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Mark Boyd (author)
Mark Boyd (1805 – 12 September 1879, in London) was an English author. Mark Boyd was born in Surrey near the Thames, the younger son of Edward Boyd of Merton Hall, Newton Stewart, Wigtownshire, a merchant. His brother was Benjamin Boyd. He mainly spent his childhood on the Scottish estate, which was near the River Cree. He later pursued an active business career in London, becoming London director of a Scottish insurance society, and a lively promoter of the colonisation of Australia and New Zealand, and of other useful public undertakings. He travelled much in Europe. He published an account in the ''London and Shetland Journal'' of a journey in the Orkney Isles in 1839. On 23 December 1848 he married Emma Anne, the widow of 'Romeo' Coates, who had been run over and killed in the previous February. He died at the Alexandra Hotel, Hyde Park on 12 September 1879, aged 74.Jennett Humphreys, rev. Dean Wilson‘Boyd, Mark (1804/5–1879)’ ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biogra ...
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Mark Alexander Boyd
Mark Alexander Boyd (13 January 1562 – 10 April 1601) was a Scottish poet and soldier of fortune. He was born in Ayrshire, Scotland. His father was from Penkill, Carrick, in Ayrshire. He was educated under the care of his uncle, the Archbishop of Glasgow, James Boyd of Trochrig. As a young man, he left Scotland for France, where he studied civil law. He took part in the French Wars of Religion, serving in the army of Henri III. He had two collections of Latin poems published, in 1590 and 1592, at a time when he was teaching at the College of Guienne in Bordeaux. He returned to Scotland in 1596, and died back in Ayrshire on 10 April 1601. He is now remembered for one poem in Scots, the ''Sonnet of Venus and Cupid'', which was attributed to him by Arthur Quiller-Couch Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (; 21 November 186312 May 1944) was a British writer who published using the pseudonym Q. Although a prolific novelist, he is remembered mainly for the monumental pu ...
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