Robert McNeil Boyd MC (12 February 1890 – 1 July 1958)[1] was the 11th Bishop of Killaloe, Kilfenora, Clonfert and Kilmacduagh from 1943[2] until 1945, when he was translated to Derry and Raphoe.
He served in France from May to October, 1915, in Egypt for a short time and then for nearly three years, as Senior Chaplain in Salonika[5] where he was awarded the Military Cross and Mentioned in Despatches.
In Salonika, he contracted Malaria and he was invalided out of the Army in 1920.
[6] He then held incumbencies at Ballingarry and Shinrone after which (1936 to 1945) he was Dean of St Flannan's Cathedral, Killaloe, a post he held until his ordination to the episcopate.
[citation needed] His first wife died in 1955,[7] and he remarried in 1957.