Sir William Boyd

(1802 c.-1874)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Boyd, William, Sir LBT ID: WiBoyd1874 VIAF ID: 72937450 LOC ID: n88067827	B/BAP: 1802 DIED: 1874-12-14
SOURCES: The Medical Press (30 December 1874) 572; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
A graduate of Edinburgh University, he was a writer and physician, knighted in 1833, author of A History of Literature, 4 vols (1843).
REFERENCES TO Sir William Boyd: Countess of Blessington to Peter George Patmore, 15 April [1837] in My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) Found 1: ¶ 1 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) Lady Blessington IV