Dr. John St. Clair Boyd (1858 - 1918) was an

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gynaecologist, surgeon and first president of the Belfast

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Life

He was born at Cultra House, Holywood, Co. Down as the only son of John Kane Boyd, co-proprietor of the Blackstaff Mill. Boyd, a member of the Church of Ireland, was born in

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and studied medicine at Queen's College,in 1886.

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. 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

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. He was the first President of the Belfast Gaelic League, in 1895. 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. He married Helen Anne Cochran Macadam on 1 November 1887 at

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Parish Church, Edinburgh.
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1858 births 1918 deaths 19th-century Irish people Irish naturalists Irish gynaecologists Medical doctors from County Down {{Ireland-med-bio-stub