Abstract
John Smith Knox Boyd was born at Largs, Ayrshire, on 18 September 1891. He was very proud of his Scottish ancestry. The Boyds are a low land clan and have lived in North Ayrshire for many centuries. The last titled head of the clan, the last Earl of Kilmarnock, ‘had the privilege of being executed on "Bower Hill in 1746, following his indiscreet support for the Pretender’. John’s father, John Knox Boyd, a bank agent who worked at the Royal Bank of Scotland in Largs, was the son of a gardener. His father’s mother, whose maiden name was Knox, also belonged to an old Ayrshire family. His maternal grand father, John Smith, died young and left his wife destitute with three children, the eldest, John’s mother, only four years old. This grandmother (maiden name Elizabeth Houston), was an outstanding character, who scraped together enough money to buy the stock for a small shop.
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