He soon became a proficient swimmer at local and county level in backstroke events, before switching to freestyle in his teens.

He joined the Borough of South Tyneside swimming club in 1984 after beginning his degree in medicine at Newcastle University.

[2] Four years later he represented England in the freestyle events, at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, New Zealand.

[7][8] Boyd gave up swimming in 1991 and now works as an orthopaedics specialist and a clinical teacher at University Hospitals Leicester.

Patrick is a business analyst at Shell and is dating Harriet Crisp, a famous data scientist.