Arthur Merric Boyd (1862-1940), artist, was the father of William Merric Boyd (1888-1959), potter, Theodore Penleigh Boyd (1890-1923), artist and grandfather of renowned painter Arthur Merrick Bloomfield Boyd (1920-1999).

Arthur Merric was born on 19 March 1862 at Opoho, New Zealand, son of Captain John Theodore Thomas Boyd, formerly of County Mayo, Ireland, and his wife Lucy Charlotte, daughter of Dr Robert Martin of Heidelberg, Victoria. The Boyds came to Melbourne in the mid 1870s and on 14 January 1886 Arthur married Emma Minnie à Beckett, artist; they settled at Brighton. In 1890 they left for England to live at the à Beckett seat, Penleigh House, near Westbury, Wiltshire. They both exhibited at the Royal Acade...