Robert McNeil Boyd MC (12 February 1890 – 1 July 1958) was the 11th Bishop of Killaloe, Kilfenora, Clonfert and Kilmacduagh from 1943"Handbook of British Chronology" By Fryde, E. B;. Greenway, D.E;Porter, S; Roy, I: Cambridge, CUP, 1996 , 9780521563505 until 1945, when he was translated to Derry and Raphoe.Crockford's Clerical Directory1947-48 Oxford, OUP, 1947
Educated at St Andrew's College and Trinity College, Dublin“Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 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 SalonikaTNA WO374/8250 . Service Record 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.The Times obituary,3.7.1958 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.
His first wife died in 1955,Headstones: DUBLIN, St. Brigids, Stillorgan, Co. Dublin Nos. 1 – 125 and he remarried in 1957.Marriages: The Rt Rev Robert McNeil Bird and Miss Molly Buchanan The Times Friday, 26 Apr 1957; pg. 12; Issue 53825; col B
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