Martin Boyd

Martin a Beckett Boyd was born in Lucerne, Switzerland in 1893. He was brought to Australia when he was six months old. Boyd’s original area of study was theology that he later changed to architecture. After a brief visit to Australia after the war he returned to England in 1921 where he undertook another try at a religious vocation in a Franciscan order in the Church of England. After this period he started his career as a fiction writer. His books include the four Langton novels: The Cardboard Crown (1952), A Difficult Young Man (1955), Outbreak of Love and When Blackbirds Sing.

Martin died in June 1972.