Sir Robert David Hugh Boyd FRCP, FFPH, FRCPCH, FMedSci (born 14 May 1938) is a British

United Kingdom

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 paediatrician and head of research and Development for Greater Manchester NHS. From 1989 to 1993 he was Dean of the Medical School and Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Manchester

University of Manchester

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. He was Principal of St George's Hospital Medical School, University of London

University of London

-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...

, 1996–2003, and Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University of London from 2000 to 2003. He was made a Knight Bachelor

Knight Bachelor

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 in 2004. He is the son of James Dixon Boyd

James Dixon Boyd

James Dixon Boyd was an Irish-American Professor of Anatomy, Cambridge University from 1951 until his death and a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge.In 1933 he married Amélie Loewenthal; Sir Robert Boyd is their son....

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