- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE1491
Boyd, Felicity
(1937 – )- Born 15 July 1937, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Occupation Social worker
Summary
Felicity Boyd was an active member of the Australian Democrats. She stood for them in three elections for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Davidson in 1991 and for Port Stephens in 1999 and 2003.
Details
Felicity Boyd was born in Sydney and went to school at Hastings-on-Hudson High School, New York. She attended Briarcliff College, New York and the University of Sydney (Graduate Diploma in Social Studies 1958)), living at the Women’s College.
After graduation, she worked as a social worker for the NSW Society of Crippled Children and as a market research interviewer and analyst. She was social worker at St Joseph’s Hospital, Auburn, 1977-82 and from 1982 to 1987 at the Spastic Centre of NSW. She did locum work at various hospitals and at the Office of the Public Guardian, 1988-1995 and 1995-2002 she was a court visitor. Felicity Boyd married Ian Boyd in 1961 and they have three children.
Published resources
- Edited Book
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Resource
- Trove: Boyd, Felicity (1937-), http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-739063
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Site Exhibition
- Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html