James Boyd (sportsman)
James Lawrence Boyd DSC (18 August 1891 – 15 June 1930) was a Scottish first-class cricketer, rugby union international and Royal Navy officer.
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Full name | James Lawrence Boyd | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 18 August 1891 Amoy, Fujian, China | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 15 June 1930 38) Arosa, Graubünden, Switzerland | (aged||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bowling | Unknown | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 26 November 2019 |
The son of Thomas Morgan Boyd, a Scottish tea merchant, Boyd was born in China at Amoy. He was educated in England at the Royal Naval College, Osborne from where he entered into the Royal Navy as a sub-lieutenant. Boyd was selected to play rugby union for Scotland as a fly-half in 1912, making two Test appearances against England in the Five Nations Championship in March, and South Africa in November, with both matches played at Inverleith.[1] The following year he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant,[2] in addition to making a single appearance in first-class cricket for the Royal Navy against the British Army cricket team at Lord's.[3] Boyd served with the navy in the First World War, during which he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross in October 1916 in recognition of his service aboard submarines.[4] Following the war, he made a further first-class appearance for the Royal Navy against the Army at Lord's in 1919.[3] He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant commander in April 1921,[5] with promotion to the rank of commander following in June 1926.[6] He was placed on the retired list in February 1930, on account of ill health.[7] Boyd died shortly after in June 1930 at Arosa in Switzerland.
References
- "James Boyd - Test matches". ESPNscrum. Retrieved 30 November 2019.
- "No. 28710". The London Gazette. 15 April 1913. p. 2722.
- "First-Class Matches played by James Boyd". CricketArchive. Retrieved 30 November 2019.
- "No. 29799". The London Gazette (Supplement). 24 October 1916. p. 10362.
- "No. 32295". The London Gazette. 19 April 1921. p. 3091.
- "No. 33179". The London Gazette (Supplement). 2 July 1926. p. 4418.
- "No. 33588". The London Gazette. 14 March 1930. p. 1646.