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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human McCarthy, G.J. updated 2024-10-31 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P001533b.htm person Boyd William Alexander Jenyns AACR2 27 November 1842 19 May 1928 Place of Birth Paris, France Place of Death Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Agricultural journalist Schoolmaster William Boyd emigrated to Queensland in 1860 and from 1874 was agricultural editor of the "Queenslander". He was the first editor of the "Queensland Agricultural Journal" from 1897 and emphasized the application of science and experiments with new crops.

Born Paris, 27 November 1842. Died Sydney, 19 May 1928. Arrived Queensland 1860; grew cotton, arrowroot and rice at Oxley Creek 1860-67 and built a cotton mill there; headmaster, West Oxley State School 1867-71; grew sugar and built a mill at Pimpama 1871; headmaster, Townsville State School ca 1872-73; "Occasional District Inspector and Promoter of New Schools" 1874-75; agricultural editor, the "Queenslander" from 1874; owner and editor, "Cleveland Bay Express", Townsville, 1875-78; citrus-growing near Helidon from 1879; private school, Milton; Eton School, Nundah 1883-89; headmaster, Toowoomba Grammar School 1890; reopened Eton 1891-93; first editor of the "Queensland Agricultural Journal" 1897-1921; promoted the inclusion of agricultural courses in the 1905 primary school syllabus; began a schools' section in the journal 1906; wrote an agricultural textbook 1908; amateur soldier 1885-97; censor, Bundaberg 1914.

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 'Boyd, William Alexander Jenyns', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Boyd, William Alexander Jenyns Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Journal Article: Manufacture of sugar from juice without lime, &c. (Patent, 6 April, 1877) Eastes, Charles, Lukin, Gresley and Boyd, William Alexander Jenyn Manufacture of sugar from juice without lime, &c. (Patent, 6 April, 1877) 1877 Specifications of Letters of Registration of Patents for Inventions - South Australia, 1874-8 3 285 3 Book Section: Boyd, William Alexander Jenyns (1842-1928), agricultural journalist, schoolmaster and soldier Logan, G. N. Boyd, William Alexander Jenyns (1842-1928), agricultural journalist, schoolmaster and soldier Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1979 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 7: 1891 - 1939 A-Ch Bede Nairn and Geoffrey Serle 374-375 William Alexander Jenyns Boyd - Records Queensland State Archives William Alexander Jenyns Boyd - Records 1860 - 1875 Information in the Board of Education, Register of teachers 1860-75.