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 edit
- ^ "The Bishop Of Derry And Raphoe". The Times. No. 54193. 3 July 1958. p. 14, col A.
- ^ "Handbook of British Chronology" By Fryde, E. B;. Greenway, D.E;Porter, S; Roy, I: Cambridge, CUP, 1996 ISBN 052156350X, 9780521563505
- ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory1947-48 Oxford, OUP, 1947
- ^ “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 9780199540877
- ^ TNA WO374/8250 . Service Record
- ^ The Times obituary,3.7.1958
- ^ Headstones: DUBLIN, St. Brigids, Stillorgan, Co. Dublin Nos. 1 – 125
- ^ Marriages: The Rt Rev Robert McNeil Bird and Miss Molly Buchanan The Times Friday, 26 Apr 1957; pg. 12; Issue 53825; col B
