Alexander
Boyd, the son of a muslin manufacturer, was born in Glasgow
in 1854. On leaving school he worked in a bank but in 1880 entered
the Heatherley's School of Art. He contributed to numerous magazines
and eventually joined the staff of The Graphic.
He also supplied drawings for The Idler,
the Strand Magazine, the London
Magazine and Punch.
In 1912 Boyd emigrated to New Zealand where he later became President
of the Auckland Society of Artists. His wife, Mary Boyd, was a writer,
and the couple collaborated on several travel books. Alexander Boyd
died in 1930.
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