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Skip to contentFelicity 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.
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.
Sources used to compile this entry: Annable, Rosemary (ed.), Biographical register : the Women's College within the University of Sydney, Council of the Women's College, Sydney, 1995, 269 pp; Felicity Boyd, 13 October 2005.
Annette Alafaci
Created: 12 December 2005, Last modified: 24 April 2009
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