Reginald Boyne

Reginald Boyne

Boyne while with Brentford in 1920.
Personal information
Full name	Reginald Boyne
Date of birth	(1891-11-16)16 November 1891
Place of birth	Leeds, England
Date of death	10 March 1963(1963-03-10) (aged 71)
Place of death	Auckland, New Zealand
Playing position	Inside forward
Youth career
	Everton
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1913–1919	Aston Villa	13	(0)
	→ Notts County (guest)
1916–1917	→ Leicester Fosse (guest)	23	(2)
	Loughborough Brush
1919–1921	Brentford	48	(23)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Reginald Boyne (16 November 1891 – 10 March 1963) was a New Zealand professional football inside forward who played in the Football League for Aston Villa and Brentford.

Born in Leeds, the eldest son of William Boyne and Mary Ellen Waddington, Boyne emigrated to New Zealand with his family at a young age. He began his career in intermediate football in Auckland, playing for the Everton team, which was named after the famous English side, before travelling back to England and playing junior football in his native Yorkshire. Boyne's father, William Boyne, was president of the Everton Club in Auckland, where he and both his younger brothers, Harold Waddington Boyne and William Edgar Boyne played before the First World War broke out. Harold was killed in action on the Western Front on 21 February 1917.

Boyne joined high-flying Division One side Aston Villa on trial in August 1913 and was awarded a professional contract in December that year. He made his professional debut in a 1–0 defeat to Bradford City on 27 December 1913. Boyne made just three further appearances during the 1913–14 season and only managed four appearances during the whole of the 1914–15 season, before competitive football was suspended due to the ongoing First World War. Boyne made a further five wartime appearances for Villa, before departing in August 1919.