Old Photograph John Phelps Boyd Boy Scout Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of Boy Scout, John Phelps Boyd from Glasgow, Scotland. The Boyd surname in Scotland is a habitational name, deriving from name of the island of Bute, Bod, in Scottish Gaelic, located in the Firth of Clyde. There was also a family of this name of Norman origin, that was first found in Shropshire, England, where they were granted lands by Duke William of Normandy.The surname was first found in Ayrshire, where the first record of the name is Dominus Robertus de Boyd, who witnessed a contract in Irvine, Ayrshire, in 1205. The earliest Boyds were said to be vassals of the De Morevilles in the regality of Largs, and may have originally come north with them from England. Spelling variations of the Boyd family name includes: Byard, Byearde, Byatt, Byat, Byart, Boyde, Boid, Boyd and many more.

Robert Baden-Powell founded the Boy Scouts as an organization in 1908, a few months after the first scout encampment at Brownsea Island Scout camp in 1907. Baden-Powell got the idea from his experiences with the British Army in South Africa. To advance his ideas, Baden-Powell wrote Scouting for Boys for boy readership, which describes the Scout method of outdoor activities aiming at developing character, citizenship, and personal fitness qualities among youth. Many boys joined Scouting activities, resulting in the movement growing rapidly to become the world's largest youth organization



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