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Robert Boyd (bishop)

Robert Boyd (bishop)

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Robert McNeil Boyd MC (12 February 1890 – 1 July 1958)[1] was the 11th Bishop of Killaloe, Kilfenora, Clonfert and Kilmacduagh from 1943[2] until 1945, when he was translated to Derry and Raphoe.[3]

Educated at St Andrew's College and Trinity College, Dublin[4] and ordained in 1912, to the title of the assistant curacy of Fiddown. From 1915 to 1919 he was a Chaplain to the Forces. He served in France from May to October, 1915, in Egypt for a short time and then for nearly three years, as Senior Chaplain in Salonika[5] where he was awarded the Military Cross and Mentioned in Despatches. In Salonika, he contracted Malaria and he was invalided out of the Army in 1920.[6] He then held incumbencies at Ballingarry and Shinrone after which (1936 to 1945) he was Dean of St Flannan's Cathedral, Killaloe, a post he held until his ordination to the episcopate. Boyd was elected Bishop of Derry and Raphoe on 18 March and confirmed on 20 March 1945.[citation needed]

His first wife died in 1955,[7] and he remarried in 1957.[8]


References

  1. "The Bishop Of Derry And Raphoe". The Times. No. 54193. 3 July 1958. p. 14, col A.
  2. "Handbook of British Chronology" By Fryde, E. B;. Greenway, D.E;Porter, S; Roy, I: Cambridge, CUP, 1996 ISBN 052156350X, 9780521563505
  3. TNA WO374/8250 . Service Record
  4. The Times obituary,3.7.1958
  5. Marriages: The Rt Rev Robert McNeil Bird and Miss Molly Buchanan The Times Friday, 26 Apr 1957; pg. 12; Issue 53825; col B
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