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Lord Boyd Orr's Birth Card: The Ace of Clubs

1949 Peace

Born September 23, 1880

Died June 25, 1971

The Creative Pioneer

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In the record

John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, (23 September 1880 – 25 June 1971), styled Sir John Boyd Orr from 1935 to 1949, was a British teacher, medical doctor, biologist, nutritional physiologist, politician, businessman and farmer who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his scientific research into nutrition and his work as the first Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The birth-card coordinate for September 23 is the Ace of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1949 Peace prize.

Nobel Prize record

1949 — The Nobel Peace Prize

“for his lifelong effort to conquer hunger and want, thereby helping to remove a major cause of military conflict and war”

Prize motivation, NobelPrize.org

No one else in this set holds the 1949 Peace prize; Lord Boyd Orr appears here as its sole listed laureate. The award was divided; this laureate's listed portion is 1.

103 other Peace laureates in this set carry a birth-card coordinate.

The Ace of Clubs coordinate

Lord Boyd Orr's birthday maps to the Ace of Clubs (The Creative Pioneer). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Lord Boyd Orr. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You start a new idea while it is still usable, and you let it meet the world unfinished.

Live Ace of Clubs meaning page

Lord Boyd Orr in the public record

He was the co-founder and the first President (1960–1971) of the World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS). In 1945, he was elected President of the National Peace Council and was President of the World Union of Peace Organisations and the World Movement for World Federal Government. John Boyd Orr was born at Kilmaurs, near Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire, Scotland, the middle child in a family of seven children. His father, Robert Clark Orr, was a quarry owner, and a man of deep religious convictions, being a member of the Free Church of Scotland. His mother, Annie Boyd, was the daughter of another quarry master, wealthier than Robert Orr, and Past Master of a Masonic lodge. He was taught to read at an early age by his widowed grandmother, who lived with the family. The family home was well supplied with books, and his father was widely read in political, sociological and metaphysical subjects, as well as religion. As he grew older, John would regularly discuss these subjects with his father, brothers, and visiting friends.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article John Boyd Orr (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the Ace of Clubs

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Cards in Lord Boyd Orr's fixed path

Birth card and karma

Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)

Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread

Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.

Original thinking and idea generation

A♣ — Birth Card, from the published Ace of Clubs meaning

John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, (23 September 1880 – 25 June 1971), styled Sir John Boyd Orr from 1935 to 1949, was a British teacher, medical doctor, biologist, nutritional physiologist, politician, businessman and farmer who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his scientific research into nutrition and his work as the first Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: research, teacher.

Also on the record

  1. When he was five years old, the family suffered a setback when a ship owned by Robert Orr was lost at sea.
  2. They had to sell their home in Kilmaurs, and moved to West Kilbride, a village on the North Ayrshire coast.
  3. According to Kay, the new house and environment were a great improvement on Kilmaurs, despite the family's reduced means.
  4. The major part of his upbringing took place in and around West Kilbride.

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FAQ

What is Lord Boyd Orr's birth card?
The Ace of Clubs. September 23 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
Does a birth card predict a Nobel Prize?
No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast prizes, character, or fate.
Where do Lord Boyd Orr's dates come from?
Birth date 1880-09-23 is the Nobel Prize API v2.1 day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only Nobel dates and Nobel↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Sources: Nobel Prize API v2.1 (laureate 510) + Wikidata CC0 (Q315143) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (John Boyd Orr). Birth date 1880-09-23 is the Nobel day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).