Boece
or BOYCE (bois), HECTOR, a Scottish historian, born in Dundee about 1465. He studied first at Dundee, and then at the University of Paris, where he became Professor of Philosophy in the College of Montaigu, and made the Lea acquaintance of Erasmus. About 1500 he quitted ed Paris to assume the principalship of the newly founded university of King's College, Aberdeen. In 1527 appeared the "History of Scotland" in Latin, on which his fame chiefly rests. In 1536 a translation of his history was published, made by John Ballentyne or Bellenden, for James V. He died in 1536.