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Catalogue description PAPERS OF A. W. BOYD, NATURALIST
This record is held by Cheshire Archives and Local Studies
| Reference: | D5154 |
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| Title: | PAPERS OF A. W. BOYD, NATURALIST |
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MARKLAND FAMILY Genealogy Ralph Markland Jeremiah Markland John Markland J H Markland Eliza Markland Letters, from various correspondents Drawings and photographs Cricket Miscellanea CONYBEARE FAMILY Genealogy J J Conybeare W D Conybeare Letters, from various correspondents Farmer family Oliver/Olivier family Miscellanea A W BOYD Papers relating to Markland catalogue Papers relating to historical research Maps, photographs and drawings Folklore Wildlife and conservation War Miscellanea Mrs V B Boyd |
| Date: | 1604-1959 |
| Held by: | Cheshire Archives and Local Studies, not available at The National Archives |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical description: | 3 Sub-fonds |
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Arnold Whitworth Boyd was a naturalist and antiquarian with interests in local history, folklore, dialect and conservation. He was born in 1885 and died in 1959. Through his marriage in 1919 to Violet Blanche Conybeare he was related to the latter family and to the Marklands of south Lancashire see D5154/16, D515417. He attended Rugby School and Oxford University and served in World War 1, attaining the rank of major. From 1920 he lived in Frandley House, Seven Oaks, Antrobus. His best-known work is A Country Parish: Great Budworth in the County of Chester 1951. He calendared the Markland Mss held at Wigan Public Library in 1930 and transcribed the churchwardens' accounts and town books of Great Budworth, Antrobus, Seven Oaks, Barnton and Newton by Daresbury. He contributed for many years to the Manchester Guardian and was assistant editor of British Birds. For an obituary, see Trans Lancs & Cheshire Antiquarian Soc, Volume 69. Many of the historical papers and ephemera of the Markland and Conybeare families came into Mr Boyd's possession. This collection has been divided into three parts, relating as far as possible to the activities of the Marklands, the Conybeares and the Boyds |
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