Boyd family

• The Hon. William Arthur Callendar à Beckett (1833–1901) married Emma Mills (1838–1906) in 1855, and together they had six children, including Emma Minnie à Beckett (1858–1936);^[3] and Major Alexander Boyd's son Captain (1825–1891) married Dr 's daughter in 1857, and had 12 children, including Arthur Merric Boyd (1862–1940).^[4]
  • Arthur Merric Boyd married Emma Minnie à Beckett (known as Minnie). Both were already individually established in society as painters. They had five children, four of whom became prominent in the Australian artistic world. When their children had matured, married or settled elsewhere, Arthur Merric and Emma Minnie Boyd lived in a connecting property to their son, Merric Boyd and family in Wahroongaa Crescent, Murrumbeena but then in 1924 moved to 5 Edward Street, Sandringham.^[5][6] When his wife died in 1936 Arthur Merric moved to a family cottage at Rosebud^[7] on the Mornington Peninsula on the shores of Port Phillip Bay and in 1939 returned to Wahroongaa Crescent, Murrumbeena where he lived out his last days.
    • John Gilbert à Beckett Boyd (1886–1896) was killed in a riding accident.
    • William Merric Boyd (1888–1959), potter,^[4][8] married Doris Gough (1889–1960), painter.^[9] Doris and Merric Boyd, newly married, found their home there, at Murrumbeena, naming it "Open Country," establishing a continuance of artistic tradition to the name Boyd.
      • Lucy Evelyn Gough Boyd (1916–2009), painter, ceramic decorator,^[10] married Hatton Beck (1901–1994), ceramist, potter, sculptor.^[11]
        • Laurence Hatton Beck (1940–), layman, wayfarer and journeyman.^[12]
        • Robert Hatton Beck (1942–), potter/ceramist, married Margot Gardner (daughter of painter Freidl Gardner) and they had two children.
        • Paul Hatton Beck (1948–), musician
      • Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd (1920–1999), painter, married Yvonne Lennie, painter.
        • Polly Boyd (1946–), artist and painter
        • Jamie Patrick Boyd (1948–), painter and sculptor^[13][14]
        • Lucy Ellen Boyd, painter
      • Guy Martin à Beckett Boyd (1923–1988),early poet, potter, sculptor, married Phyllis Emma Nairn.^[15]
        • Lenore Boyd (1953–) figurative sculptor, married Ronald Eades (1951-2016), potter and painter, and had two children.
        • Sally Boyd
        • Derry Catherine (1957–), owner-operator of a graphic, web, and multimedia business, married (1)Vuthichai Satianyot (also known as Yap Guan Soon), and (2) Michael Evans. Derry and Michael had three children.
        • Kirstin Doris (1960–), writer of children's literature, married (1) John Murray, graphic designer, and had three children. Kirstin married (2) Ken Harper, drama teacher, playwright, gymnast, and circus trainer.
        • Ben
        • Charlotte Beatrice Magdalen (1968–2021), potter and ceramist, married John O'Donohue, digital technician. They had two children.
        • Martin Duncan Gough (1970–), writer and Spanish translator, married Paulina Derbez, violinist, and had one child.
      • David Fielding Gough Boyd (1924–2011), potter, painter,^[16] married Hermia Lloyd-Jones, ceramic decorator, artist, stage designer.
        • Amanda, painter and costume designer
        • Lucinda, model and painter
        • Cassandra, painter and illustrator
      • Mary Elizabeth Boyd (1926–2016),^[17] early age paint and pottery acquaintance, a chronicling photographer from 1960's. Married firstly, November 1944, John Perceval, painter, potter, and sculptor, and had four children. Mary married secondly, in 1978, Sir Sidney Nolan, painter, becoming Lady Nolan.
        • Matthew, painter, married Jutta, three children.
        • Tessa, painter
        • Celia, painter
        • Alice, painter, had four children.
    • Theodore Penleigh Boyd (1890–1923), painter, married Edith Susan Gerard Anderson, painter.^[18]
      • Pamela Boyd (b & d 1913)
      • Pat Boyd | John à Beckett Penleigh (Pat) Boyd (1915–1980), painter, wartime pilot,^[19] then commercial aviation pilot, married Anne Davy.^[20]
      • Robin Gerard Penleigh Boyd (1919–1971), architect and writer, married Patricia Madder, daughter to Læticia, a sister to Doris Boyd.
    • Martin à Beckett Boyd (1893–1972), writer.
    • Helen Read à Beckett Boyd (1903–1999), late painter, married Neven Read, naval officer.
      • Gayner Read (1936–1988), painter. Two sons.
      • Susan Read (1938–), children Pennie Easton, Ken Easton, Greame Easton.
      • Andrew Read (1942–), Arthur Read, Rossie Read.
      • Prudence Read (1947–)

It was in 1955 when David Boyd with his wife Hermia returned from a stay of several successful working years as potters in England and the south of France that the conception of this family line was popularised in a display of public relations in the press, magazines and the media (radio in 1955, television arrived 1956) that dismayed most family members. David was working full-scale promoting the circumstances of his life for the benefit of the pottery exhibitions of his and his wife's work, and magazine editors found the thick patina of past grandeur as presented to them by David irresistible and pages of glory adorned the 1955 magazines and newspaper articles. From here on, in the family's history no members could think of themselves again as quite so elite or socially removed although in the popular sense as an artistic family the notoriety was never greater. The generations that followed (including those born before 1955) grew up in this imposed social and cultural circumstance.

See also[]

• Nasturtiums (E. Phillips Fox) . . . Edith Anderson, as model to E. Phillips Fox, later to be Mrs Penleigh Boyd.

References[]

Further reading[]

• Niall, Brenda (July 2002). The Boyds: A Family Biography. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. ISBN 0-522-84871-0.

External links[]

• The Boyd Family. Dynasties. ABCTV. Archived from the original on 29 March 2006.
• "The Boyds: A Family Biography". The Sydney Morning Herald. 18 May 2002.