# Jimmy Boyce

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'''James Boyce''' (6 September 1947 – 25 January 1994), known as '''Jimmy Boyce''', was a British [Labour](/source/Labour_Party_(UK)) politician.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hughes |first1=Kevin |title=Obituary: James Boyce |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-james-boyce-1402830.html |access-date=28 March 2022 |work=[The Independent](/source/The_Independent) |date=27 January 1994}}</ref>

He was a member of [Sheffield Council](/source/City_of_Sheffield) from 1984 and was elected [Member of Parliament](/source/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)) for [Rotherham](/source/Rotherham_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) in April 1992, but died less than 2 years later.

==Personal life==
James Boyce was born in 1947 in [Paisley, Scotland](/source/Paisley%2C_Renfrewshire), the son of James and Nellie Boyce. He came to settle in [Sheffield](/source/Sheffield), meeting and marrying Patricia Morton, with whom he had two sons, Jimmy and Calum. He was divorced in the late 1980s and remarried in April 1993.<ref>Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/1565177.organ-rules-change-plea/|title = Organ rules change plea| date=23 July 2007 }}</ref>

==Career==
Boyce became involved in local politics through his father in-law, Alf Morton (who introduced him to the local Labour party). Boyce became involved in trade union activities while working in the then thriving steel works in Sheffield but, like many others, was made redundant in the early 1980s. He went on to study law at the then Sheffield Polytechnic but left during his second year. In 1984 he was elected as local councillor for the Burngreave ward in Sheffield.
He returned to Sheffield University to study Law in 1987 as a mature student and was a much-loved figure around the Law Department, known for his dry sense of humour and caring personality.

==Health and death==
On [Christmas Eve](/source/Christmas_Eve) 1993 he was put on the transplant waiting list for a new heart after what he thought was a respiratory problem after complaining of breathing problems. It turned out he was suffering from an enlarged heart. On [Burns Night](/source/Burns_supper) 1994 he suffered a fatal heart attack at home in his living room.<ref>{{cite news|url= http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/15311573.Meet_York_s_new_Lord_Mayor/|title=Meet York's new Lord Mayor|work=[York Press](/source/The_Press_(York))|date=26 May 2017|accessdate=16 January 2018}}</ref> Over 500 people attended his memorial service on 11 February 1994, at which a speaker was the then Labour Party leader [John Smith](/source/John_Smith_(Labour_Party_leader)), who, coincidentally, would also die of a heart attack just a week after the [by-election](/source/1994_Rotherham_by-election) to elect Boyce's replacement was held.

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  | years  = [1992](/source/1992_United_Kingdom_general_election)–[1994](/source/1994_Rotherham_by-election)
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Category:Amalgamated Engineering Union-sponsored MPs
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Category:Alumni of Sheffield Hallam University
Category:People from Paisley, Renfrewshire

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