- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE1491
Boyd, Felicity
(1937 – )- Nationality Australian
- Born 15 July, 1937, Sydney New South Wales Australia
- Occupation Social worker
Summary
Felicity Boyd has been an active member of the Australian Democrats. She stood for them in the following elections:
New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Davidson in 1991.
New South Wales Legislative Assembly 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 (Grad Dip Soc St (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 1982-1987 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