Eileen Alberta Boyd

Eileen Alberta Boyd became Mrs Gordon Lane (13 December 1890 – 14 September 1975) was an Australian singer. She began as a child performer and she toured in the UK during World War One.

Life Boyd was born in 1890 in Sydney to Margaret (born Shalvey) and Albert Boyd. Both her parents had been born in Australia and her father ran a hotel. Her parents arranged lessons for her in singing and elocution and she was a child singer. She toured New Zealand in 1900 when she was known as "The Baby Baritone, Clog Dancer and Whistler". She continued her education with a tutor while on tour. In 1915 she married in Britain in May and in October she was a widow with a child and a young teenage step-daughter. Her husband, Hugh Ernest Roberts had been a master mariner.

In 1934 she was still using the name "Eileen Boyd" when recording. In 1937 it was "Mrs Gordon Lane" who commissioned a pastel portrait from the Australian artist Dora Wilson. It was called "Nada" and it was exhibited at Margaret MacLean's Gallery in Melbourne.

Boyd died in 1975 in Hammondville.

Recordings include

Your King and Country Want You, Jumbo, c. 1915 The Stranger of Galilee,1934