Alastair Boyd, 7th Baron Kilmarnock
Alastair Boyd, 7th Baron Kilmarnock | |
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Born | 11 May 1927 |
Died | 19 March 2009 | (aged 81)
Education | Bradfield College King's College, Cambridge |
Occupation(s) | Scottish clan chief Writer |
Spouses |
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Children | 1 |
Alastair Ivor Gilbert Boyd, 7th
Early life
Boyd was born into an aristocratic British family, and served as a pageboy at the
Personal life
Boyd married Diana Mary Gibson in 1954 but the marriage was dissolved in 1970.
Boyd lived for much of his life at Ronda in Andalusia, first with Diana, and later with Hilly and their son James, where he variously ran a tapas bar and a language school.
As Boyd's only son was born before his parents' marriage, the title of Baron Kilmarnock was inherited by Boyd's younger brother, Robin Jordan Boyd (b. 1941), who succeeded to the peerage in 2009. He has two sons, Simon John Boyd, born 1978, and Mark Julian Boyd, born 1981. The heir apparent is the elder of his two sons, Simon John Boyd, who has a son, Lucian Michael Boyd (born 2007).
Political career
After inheriting his father's title in 1975 Boyd took his seat in the House of Lords, eventually joining the
Writing
His publications include Sabbatical Year (1958); The Road from Ronda (1969); The Companion Guide to Madrid and Central Spain (1974); The Essence of Catalonia (1988); The Sierras of the South (1992); The Social Market and the State (1999); and Rosemary: A Memoir (2005).
His essay, The Quest (2006),[5] on the paintings of his friend Miles Richmond (1922–2008), appeared in catalogues that accompanied exhibitions by Richmond at the Convento de Santo Domingo, Ronda (2006) and the Galeria Italcable, Málaga (2008).
Notes
- ^ Obituary, The Daily Telegraph, 20 March 2009
- ^ a b c "Obituaries: Lord Kilmarnock", The Times, 24 March 2009, p. 55.
- ^ "Lord Kilmarnock: Writer and politician who also helped care for Kingsley Amis in the novelist's later years". The Independent. 27 March 2009. Archived from the original on 28 March 2009.
- ISBN 9780140148053
- ^ "The Quest - Alastair Boyd". 2006. Retrieved 20 May 2019.
References
- The Times obituary
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [better source needed]
- Debrett's Peerage