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Theodore Penleigh Boyd (1890 - 1923)

Theodore Penleigh (Penleigh) Boyd
Born in Westbury, Wiltshire, Englandmap
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Husband of — married 1912 in London, Englandmap
Died at age 33 in Warragul, Victoria, Australiamap
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Biography

Theodore Penleigh Boyd was born on 15th August 1890 at Penleigh House, Westbury, Wiltshire, England.[1] He was the second son of Arthur Merric Boyd and Minnie a'Beckett, well-known artists of the day, and his brothers included the ceramicist Merric Boyd (1888–1959) and the novelist Martin Boyd (1893–1972). His son Robin Boyd (1919–1971) became a famous and influential architect, educator and social commentator, and his nephews Arthur Boyd, Guy Boyd and David Boyd became prominent artists.

Penleigh is best known as a landscape artist with an accomplished handling of evanescent effects of light. He received his artistic training from his parents and at the National Gallery Art School. He had his first exhibition at the Victorian Artists' Society at 18, and exhibited at the Royal Academy, London at 21.

He met Edith Anderson, ten years his senior, at the time modelling in Paris and they married there on 15th October 1912. The couple returned to Australia in 1913 and settled in Melbourne. In 1914, with his painting career flourishing, Penleigh purchased a block of land at Warrandyte and built a family home and studio that he named, "The Robins". They had three children:

  • Pamela was born in the spring of 1913, but died two weeks later
  • John á Beckett, known to all as Pat, was born in 1915
  • Robin, their second son, was born in January 1919
    Penleigh Boyd is an Anzac who served in World War One.
On 2nd November 1915, Penleigh enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF), serving in the Australian Electrical and Mechanical Mining and Boring Company. Like his brothers Martin and Merric, Penleigh served in France during the First World War.
Roll of Honor
Penleigh Boyd was wounded at Ypres, Belgium during The Great War.

After he was gassed at Ypres in 1917, which left him with lasting physical problems, he was invalided back to England and then repatriated to Australia 30th January 1918; being discharged in March 1918.[2] Both brothers also survived the war.

In 1922 Penleigh and Edith moved the boys to Sydney; and then to England to select paintings for a major exhibition of contemporary European art. He returned to Australia without his family in June 1923 to set up the exhibition, which was staged in Sydney and Melbourne in July–August. Whilst alone, Penleigh conducted an open affair with fellow-artist, Minna Schuler. Penleigh even exhibited a portrait of Minna at that year's Victorian Artists' Association Exhibition.[3]

On 28th November 1923, four days after his wife and boys returned from England, Penleigh was killed near Warragul, Victoria in an automobile accident in which he was driving his Hudson tourer.[4]

Sources

  1. UK FreeBMD Birth Index Sep qtr 1890, vol 5a, page 141
  2. Australian War Memorial nominal roll: 5 Lance Sergeant Theodore Penleigh Boyd; accessed 1 Aug 2019
  3. Baker, Mark. Phillip Schuler: the Remarkable Life of One of Australia's Greatest War Correspondents. Allen & Unwin, 2016. ISBN 9 781 76011 165 6
  4. Victoria Death Index #/1923




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