Please answer the following question: Facts: - death place: honiara , guadalcanal , solomon islands - residence: eden district - death date: 15 october 1851 - office: member of the legislative council of new south wales - term end: 1845 08 01 y - constituency: electoral district of port phillip - term start: 1844 09 01 y - birth date: 21 august 1803 - name: benjamin boyd - nationality: scottish-born australian - birth place: wigtownshire , scotland - occupation: stockbroker , pastoralist , entrepreneur Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of benjamin boyd .
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benjamin boyd -lrb- 21 august 180115 october 1851 -rrb- was a scottish-born australian pioneer and entrepreneur , and briefly , a politician .boyd became one of the largest landholders and graziers of the colony of new south wales ; before suffering financial difficulties and becoming bankrupt .boyd briefly tried his luck on the californian goldfields before being purportedly murdered in the guadalcanal in the solomon islands .boyd was a man of '' an imposing personal appearance , fluent oratory , aristocratic connexions , and a fair share of commercial acuteness '' .georgiana mccrae , with whom he had dinner when he first came to the port phillip district , looked at him with an artist 's eye and said : '' he is rubens over again .tells me he went to a '' bal masque '' as rubens with his broad-leafed hat '' .