James Dixon Boyd (29 September 1907 – 7 February 1968) was Professor of Anatomy at

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and a Fellow of

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. Born in New York, USA in 1907 to James Dickson Boyd and Grace Smythe, he would move with his father to his homeplace in

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in 1917. In 1933 he married Amélie Loewenthal; Sir Robert Boyd is their son.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Boyd, James Dixon 1907 births 1968 deaths Fellows of Clare College, Cambridge American anatomists American people of Irish descent Place of birth missing American emigrants to the United Kingdom Professors of Anatomy (Cambridge)