Boece or Boyis or Boethius, Hector c.1465-1536
Scottish historian

Born in Dundee, he studied at Montaigu College, Paris, where c.1492 to 1498 he was a regent or Professor of Philosophy, and where he became a friend of Erasmus. Bishop Elphinstone then invited him to preside over his newly founded university of Aberdeen, and he was at the same time made a canon of the cathedral. In 1522 he published his biographies, in Latin, of the bishops of Mortlach and Aberdeen, and in 1527 the Latin History of Scotland, which contained a large amount of fiction. The king awarded him a pension until he was promoted to a benefice in 1534.