William Christopher Boyd

William Christopher Boyd (1842–18 September 1906 and baptised on 16 February at St John's Church, Hackney. Boyd's parents were Christopher Boyd, a gentleman and Mary Ann Harriet Boyd (née Galliver), Boyd was a liveryman of the Draper's Company and served as Master of the Company in 1898. and the couple went on to have four children.

Boyd was a keen sportsman, enjoying shooting and cricket. As of 2005, the survival status of Boyd's archaeological and ethnographic collections was not known.

Entomology

Boyd's principal studies concerned Lepidoptera, most particularly moths including Tineidae, Boyd regularly exhibited specimens at Entomological Society meetings (for example in May 1874, October 1885, and December 1888 ) and he published short notices occasionally in the Entomologist's Monthly Magazine from 1868 until 1904. Boyd's notebooks dating from 1859 to 1889 are held in the archives of the Natural History Museum, London.

a specimen of the caddisfly species Anabolia nervosa (Curtis, 1834) collected at Waltham Cross ("WX") on 10 October 1903, originally from W.C. Boyd's collection (NHMUK014568203)

Numismatics

Boyd's interest in coins was inspired by a collection he had inherited from George Henry Galliver, his maternal uncle.

During his lifetime between 1893 and 1903 Boyd donated 36 ancient coins to the British Museum. Boyd's personal coin and medal collection remained with his relatives until 2005, when it was offered for sale by the numismatic auctioneers A.H. Baldwin and Sons.