(Boyd) Barons & Earls of Kilmarnock^[1]

1250 - Yes, date unknown

• Name	(Boyd) Barons & Earls of Kilmarnock
  Birth	1250
  Gender	Male
  Death	Yes, date unknown
  Person ID	I121569	First tree
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2013

  
  

  Father	B Scotland Alternatives,   b. 1200   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F31751	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  The 7th Baron Kilmarnock, who died 19 March 2009, aged 81, was head of the Clan Boyd, a gifted writer, lifelong Hispanophile and chairman of the all-party parliamentary group on Aids. Alastair Ivor Gilbert Boyd was born 11 May 1927 and educated at Bradfield and King's College, Cambridge. He was a Page to the Lord High Constable of Scotland at the Coronation of King George VI, May 1937. During national service he was in Palestine, in 1947-48, as a lieutenant in the Irish Guards, then entered his father's business in the City. Lord Kilmarnock's publications (as Alastair Boyd) included Sabbatical Year (1958); The Road from Ronda (1969); The Essence of Catalonia (1988); The Social Market and the State (1999); and Rosemary: a memoir (2005). He married first, in 1954 (dissolved 1970), Diana Mary Grant Gibson, who died in 1975. He married secondly, 1977, Hilary Anne, dau of Leonard Sidney. His second wife survives him with their son, and his younger brother, the Hon Robin Jordan Boyd, known as "Tiger" who was born 6 Jun 1941, succeeds to the peerage (Baron, UK 1831).

  
  

• Sources

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