William Alexander Jenyns Boyd

He was educated in France, Switzerland, Germany, and Italy, including at the Lycee de Versailles, near Paris.

[2][3] Although expected to join the army, Boyd decided to work on American sailing ships allowing him to he traveled widely around the world.

He was successful in that business until cane disease, frosts, and other problems ruined nearly all the sugar-growers on the Pimpama, Logan, and Albert Rivers.

[2] Journalism next attracted him and he purchased the Townsville newspaper Cleveland Bay Express which proved a good investment.

[6][7][8] On 22 January 1918 he married Cora Violet Pickton White at St Martins Church of England, Milton.

[11][12] He had an adopted daughter who was the widow of Lieutenant Ralph Clifton, an officer in the Royal Artillery, killed at the Western Front during World War I.

[2] Following the death of his second wife, he lived in Sydney with his adopted daughter where he died on Saturday 19 May 1928 aged 85 years.