Background
Boyd, a member of the Church of Ireland, was born in Holywood, County Down and studied medicine at Queen"s College, Belfast.
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John Boyd
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Career
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. 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.
Membership
In the 1890s he was a member of the Belfast Naturalists" Field Club, for which he wrote a number of articles
