Person

Boyd, John Archibald (1846 - 1926)

Born
2 February 1846
Weymouth, Dorset, England
Died
29 March 1926
"The Hollies", Eden, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation
Natural history collector

Summary

John Boyd collected specimens for the Australian Museum and William Macleay. His father Dr Sprott Boyd (1815 - 1902) was a trustee of the Museum. He was in Fiji 1865-1882 where he helped pioneer sugar-growing, and then had a sugar plantation at Ingham, Queensland, before retiring to Eden, New South Wales.

Details

Educated Sydney Grammar School; lived in Fiji 1865-82; sugar plantation, Ingham, Queensland from 1882.

Chronology

1857
Life event - Arrived Sydney
1865 - 1882
Career position - Lived in Fiji, growing sugar
1882 - c. 1899
Career position - Planter, Sugar plantation, Ingham, Queensland
1888 -
Career event - Original [founding] member, Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science
1899
Life event - Retired, to Eden, New South Wales

Related Corporate Bodies

Archival resources

Macleay Museum, University of Sydney

  • John Archibald Boyd - Records, 1870 - 1891; Macleay Museum, University of Sydney. Details

Published resources

Newspaper Articles

Resources

Gavan McCarthy; Ken McInnes

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