Piece of Another Period

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Four sons and a Cambridge childhood

Richard Boyd, Stephen Boyd, Robert Boyd , John Boyd

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Grosvenor House Publishing Ltd
07 August 2025

Memoirs; Social & cultural history; Oral history

Dixon and Amelie Boyd were Belfast medical students. Later he was a Cambridge Professor and she an Academic's wife. They and their four sons, became a Cambridge mid-century fixture. Their copious letters (and memories of those sons, the authors) bring to light an unvarnished picture of that University at a time of dramatic change.

Darlingest, It not only seems but it was a long time ago. We were half our present ages; the war was no more than a shadow of a man's hand in bright sunlight - possible but not very probable... In a wider field no atomic power or bombs; no television; unemployment and a servant class; no penicillin; no Russian imperialism and a well-established British Empire. We had not even dreamed of Cambridge, let alone three periods of residence and a Chair and Clare.

Dixon Boyd to his wife on their 25th wedding anniversary 19 August 1958

On the Margins of War

Jews, Blacks and Irish

Sex and Psychoanalysis

Who knew Who

Scholarship, Science and Preferment

Clare College as Family

This volume tells us what they then thought and how they then acted.

By: Richard Boyd, Stephen Boyd, Robert Boyd, John Boyd
Imprint: Grosvenor House Publishing Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 352g
ISBN: 9781836151630
ISBN 10: 1836151632
Pages: 258
Publication Date: 07 August 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Richard, Stephen, Robert and John Boyd were brought up in Cambridge. All except Richard were Clare College undergraduates. Richard: Went to Merton College and became an Oxford Physiologist. He served as Chair of the Physiological Society and is now a retired fellow of Brasenose College Oxford. Stephen: A lexicographer became Professor at Osaka University and co-editor of the Kenkyusha Anglo-Japanese dictionary. He lives in Osaka. Robert: A paediatrician became Principal of St George's University of London and Chair of the UK Medical Schools' Council. He is emeritus professor of the University of Manchester where he lives. John: A diplomat became Ambassador to Japan then Master of Churchill College and Chair of the Trustees of the British Museum. He was an honorary Fellow of Clare College until his death in 2019.