Papers of William Boyd, 1874-1962, educationalist, reader in department of education, University of Glasgow, Scotland c1955 -c1990

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Papers of William Boyd, 1874-1962, educationalist, reader in department of education, University of Glasgow, Scotland c1955 -c1990

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Glasgow University Archive Service

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University of Glasgow (1451- : Glasgow, Scotland)

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These are Economic History lecture notes, possibly a lecturer's own notes. There are 6 notebooks within a slipcase. On the slipcase is written in pencil "Dr James Cunnison? Alec Macfie?" The identification of the author of these notes is not certain. There is one letter within volume 6 addressed to Dr Cunnison, but without a comparison of handwriting it has not possible to assign these notes to Dr Cunnison. References within the notes would indicate that they were written after 1924. ...

Boyd, William, 1874-1962, educationalist, reader in department of education, University of Glasgow, Scotland,

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William Boyd was born in Riccarton, Ayrshire on 18 March 1874 , the son of David Boyd, a journeyman pattern-maker and Janet Smith, a farmer's daughter and servant maid. He married Isa Burt in 1905 and had one daughter and then married Dorothy Wilson in 1919, with whom he had two sons and one daughter. He was educated at Kilmarnock Academy and the University of Glasgow . At the University he took at Honours Philosophy degree and won the John Clark scholarship four years i...