James Boyd (sportsman)
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Full name | James Lawrence Boyd | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 18 August 1891 Amoy, Fujian, China | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 15 June 1930 Arosa, Graubünden, Switzerland | (aged 38)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Unknown | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Unknown | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 26 November 2019 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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James Lawrence Boyd DSC (18 August 1891 – 15 June 1930) was a Scottish first-class cricketer, rugby union international and Royal Navy officer.
Rugby Union career
[edit]Amateur career
[edit]He played for United Services.[1]
Provincial career
[edit]He played for Anglo-Scots on 23 December 1911.[2]
International career
[edit]Boyd was selected to play rugby union for Scotland as a fly-half in 1912, making two Test appearances against England in the Five Nations Championship in March, and South Africa in November, with both matches played at Inverleith.[3]
Cricket career
[edit]In 1913 he made a single appearance in first-class cricket for the Royal Navy against the British Army cricket team at Lord's.[4]
Following the war, he made a further first-class appearance for the Royal Navy against the Army at Lord's in 1919.[4]
Family
[edit]The son of Thomas Morgan Boyd, a Scottish tea merchant, Boyd was born in China at Amoy.
Military career
[edit]He was educated in England at the Royal Naval College, Osborne from where he entered into the Royal Navy as a sub-lieutenant. In 1913, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant.[5]
Boyd served with the navy in the First World War, during which he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross in October 1916 in recognition of his service aboard submarines.[6]
He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant commander in April 1921,[7] with promotion to the rank of commander following in June 1926.[8] He was placed on the retired list in February 1930, on account of ill health.[9]
Death
[edit]Boyd died shortly after retiring, in June 1930, at Arosa in Switzerland.
References
[edit]- ^ Scotland. The Essential History of Rugby Union. Nick Oswald and John Griffiths. Headline Publishing. 2003.
- ^ https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000469/19120111/019/0004
- ^ "James Boyd - Test matches". ESPNscrum. Retrieved 30 November 2019.
- ^ a b "First-Class Matches played by James Boyd". CricketArchive. Retrieved 30 November 2019.
- ^ "No. 28710". The London Gazette. 15 April 1913. p. 2722.
- ^ "No. 29799". The London Gazette (Supplement). 24 October 1916. p. 10362.
- ^ "No. 32295". The London Gazette. 19 April 1921. p. 3091.
- ^ "No. 33179". The London Gazette (Supplement). 2 July 1926. p. 4418.
- ^ "No. 33588". The London Gazette. 14 March 1930. p. 1646.
External links
[edit]- James Boyd at ESPNcricinfo
- James Boyd at ESPNscrum
- 1891 births
- 1930 deaths
- Sportspeople from Xiamen
- People educated at the Royal Naval College, Osborne
- Royal Navy officers
- Scottish rugby union players
- Scotland international rugby union players
- Scottish cricketers
- Royal Navy cricketers
- Royal Navy personnel of World War I
- Recipients of the Distinguished Service Cross (United Kingdom)
- Royal Navy submarine commanders
- Scottish expatriates in China
- United Services players
- Rugby union fly-halves