David Boyd

Biography

Dr David Boyd attended the University of Edinburgh to study medicine in 1944, he was posted to Nigeria with the Royal West African Frontier Force through the Royal Army Medical College in the early 1950s and upon his return continued his studies with a post-graduate in medicine and sat his membership at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. He worked various jobs across Scotland and in many different hospitals but he settled in Edinburgh in 1970. He was Secretary of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh from 1975 to 1979 and was on the Council of the College from 1981 to 1984.

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Details

• Date of interview: January 1998
• Archive reference: OBJ/ORA/1/2
• Interviewer: Martin Eastwood, College Honorary Librarian