In which modern-day African country was the author William Boyd born?
William Boyd (writer) William Boyd (writer) William Boyd (born 7 March 1952) is a Scottish novelist, short story writer and screenwriter. Boyd was born in Accra, Ghana, to Scottish parents, both from Fife, and has two younger sisters. His father Alexander, a doctor specialising in tropical medicine, and Boyd's mother, who was a teacher, moved to the then Gold Coast in 1950 to run the health clinic at the University of Ghana, Legon (formerly University College of the Gold Coast). In the early 1960s the family moved to western Nigeria, where Boyd’s father held a similar position at the University of Ibadan. Boyd
William Boyd (pathologist) William Boyd (pathologist) William Boyd, MB, ChB, MD, MRCP, FRCPath, (June 21, 1885 – March 10, 1979) was a Scottish-Canadian physician, pathologist, academic, and author known for his medical textbooks. William was born in Portsoy, Scotland, the sixth child of Dugald Cameron Boyd (a Presbyterian clergyman) and Eliza Marion (née Butcher) Boyd. He received his medical degree from the University of Edinburgh in 1908, and went on to become trained and accredited as a neurologist, psychiatrist, and pathologist. Boyd worked as an attending physician and nominal pathologist at the Derby County Asylum in the English Midlands from 1909–1912, and at