The Archive · 1940

Sir Harry Robert Boyd SPECIAL TO THE "N.C.D.N."

London, Mar. 1l

Sir Harry Robert Boyd, the Ceremonial otary of the Home Office, singe 1925, has died.

Sit Harry, was 04 years of. age, was engaged in business in Shanghai during the years 1899 to 1911. He received the China Medal in 1900.

Attached to the Ministry of Finance in Peiping in 1914, he became Assistant Private Secretary to the Under-Secretary of State in 1916, in which post he served until 1917. During the years 1919 to 1925 he was Assistant Secretary to successive Secretaries of State.

He was Joint Secretary of the Silver Jubilee Committee in 1935, and in 1936 and 1937, a Member of ihe Coronation Executive ' Committee. Reuter.

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