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BOGUE, David. Assistant to Thomas Ireland of Edinburgh bookseller to 1836; assistant to Charles Tilt of London publisher 1836–40, partner with him 1840–43; bookseller and publisher at 86 Fleet st. London 1843 to death; wrote several children’s books anonymously; one of principal proprietors of Illustrated Times. d. 76 Camden road villas, Camden town, London 17 Nov. 1856 aged 44.

BOHLER, John. b. South Wingfield near Alfreton, Derbyshire 31 Dec. 1797; a stocking weaver; collector of medicinal plants for the doctors; an expert field botanist and microscopist; explored Snowdon and adjacent mountains about 1860; a great collector of rare fungi and other curious plants; published Lichenes Britannici or specimens of the Lichens of Britain 16 monthly parts 1835–7; author of A Flora of Roche Abbey in Aveling’s Roche Abbey Yorkshire 1870; The Flora of Sherwood Forest in R. White’s Worksop, the Dukeries and Sherwood Forest 1875. d. Sheffield 24 Sep. 1872. Reliquary xi, 212–13 (1871); R. White’s Worksop (1875) 303–26.

326BOHN, Henry George (eld. son of John Henry Martin Bohn of Soho, London, bookbinder 1758–1843). b. 4 Jany. 1796; assisted his father; bookseller at 4 York st. Covent Garden 1831; brought out A Catalogue of books 1841 containing 1948 pages and 23208 articles; built up a trade in remainder books in which he had no rival; published Standard library 1845, Scientific and antiquarian 1847, Classical 1848, Illustrated 1849, Shilling series 1850, Ecclesiastical 1851, Philological 1852 and British classics 1853, the whole numbering 617 volumes some of which he compiled and edited; author of A dictionary of quotations from the English poets 1882; published The bibliographer’s manual of English literature by W. T. Lowndes, new ed. revised, corrected and enlarged by H. G. Bohn 4 vols. 1864; sold his Libraries to Bell and Daldy in 1864 for about £40,000 and his copyrights and plates to Chatto and Windus in Dec. 1874 for £20,000; his art collections were sold for £45,000 1875–78 and March 1885. d. North end house, Twickenham 22 Aug. 1884. Bookseller Sep. 1884 pp. 907–909.

BOHN, James George Stuart Burges (brother of the preceding). b. London 20 Dec. 1803; ed. at Winchester and Gottingen; assisted his father some years; bookseller at 12 King William st. Strand, London Feb. 1834, and at 66 St. James’s st. 1845–47; published a catalogue of 792 pages 1840; republished Dugdale’s Monasticon 8 vols., folio 1846; contributed to Family Herald; assistant editor of the Reader; prepared a catalogue of theological books of 704 pages for David Nutt 1857; compiled catalogues of foreign books for Nicholas Trubner for many years before his death. d. Peckham 4 Jany. 1880. Bookseller Feb. 1880, pp. 105–106.

BOILEAU, Alexander Henry Edmonstone. b. 3 Feb. 1807; colonel Bengal engineers 8 June 1856 to death; M.G. 18 Oct. 1861. d. Cawnpore 30 June 1862.

BOILEAU, Sir John Peter, 1 Baronet (eld. son of John Peter Boileau of Tacolnestone hall, Norfolk 1747–1837). b. Hertford st. Mayfair, London 2 Sep. 1794; 2 lieut. Rifle corps 6 Sep. 1813, lieut. 1816–17 when placed on h.p.; bought estate of Ketteringham, Norfolk 1839 and Burgh Castle, Suffolk the ancient Gariononum most remarkable example of Roman masonry in England; created baronet on coronation of Queen Victoria 24 July 1838; F.R.S. 1 June 1843; sheriff of Norfolk 1844; Vice pres. of Norfolk and Norwich Archæological Society from its formation Dec. 1845, 327pres. 1849; F.S.A. 9 Dec. 1852, vice pres. 1858–62, 1863–67 and 1868 to death. d. Torquay 9 March 1869. bur. at Ketteringham. Reg. and Mag. of Biog. i, 292–4 (1869).

BOILEAU, Samuel Brandram. b. 15 June 1801; ensign 31 Foot 18 Sep. 1823; lieut. col. 22 Foot 18 Dec. 1840 to 25 Sep. 1857 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 26 Oct. 1858. d. Hillsborough, Monkstown co. Dublin 23 Dec. 1860.

BOILEAU, Thomas Ebenezer John. Writer in Madras civil service 1815; civil and session judge at Masulipatam 1844; at Chingleput 1847–51 and at Guntoor 1851 to 15 April 1851 when he resigned on an annuity. d. Brighton 8 Feb. 1853 aged 56.

BOISRAGON, Theodore Walter Ross. b. 19 May 1830; ensign 36 Bengal N.I. 20 July 1847; lieut col. Bengal staff corps 2 Sep. 1872 to 2 Sep. 1881 when he retired with hon. rank of M.G.; C.B. 22 Feb. 1881. d. 4 Albert terrace, Bedford 21 Sep. 1882. Graphic xxvi, 536 (1882), portrait.

BOISSIER, Rev. George Richard. Educ. at Magd. coll. Cam., B.A. 1828; lived at Oakfield, Penshurst Kent; published anonymously Notes on the Cambridgeshire churches 1827. d. 23 June 1858 aged 67.

BOLCKOW, Henry William Ferdinand (eld. son of Heinrich Bolckow of Varchow in grand duchy of Mecklenburg). b. Sulten, Mecklenburg 8 Dec. 1806; came to England 1827; naturalised by acts of parliament 4 and 5 Vict. c. 48 and 31 and 32 Vict. c. 10; partner with John Vaughan as iron makers at Middlesbrough 1841; a Tees conservancy comr. 1851; took the oath of allegiance 27 Feb. 1853; mayor of Middlesbrough (the first) 1853; donor of the Albert park at a cost of £20,000 opened 11 Aug. 1868; erected the St. Hilda’s schools opened 22 Sep. 1869; A.I.C.E. 14 April 1863; M.P. for Middlesbrough 16 Nov. 1868 to death; chairman of Bolckow, Vaughan and Co., limited (with a capital of £3,500,000) 1871 to death; collected a fine gallery of pictures by modern French and English artists. d. Ramsgate 18 June 1878. Practical Mag. i, 81–90 (1873), portrait; Athenæum 22 Nov. 1873 pp. 664–6.

BOLD-HOGHTON, Sir Henry, 8 Baronet. b. Walton hall near Preston 3 Jany. 1799; sheriff of Lancashire 1829; succeeded 27 Nov. 1835. d. Anglesey near Gosport 19 July 1862. G.M. xiii, 360–62 (1862).

328BOLDEN, Samuel Edward (younger son of John Bolden of Hyning near Lancaster, breeder of shorthorn cattle 1776–1855). b. 1812; one of promoters of Lancaster and Carlisle railway opened 1846; one of the most successful breeders and soundest judges of shorthorn cattle; the first breeder to realise £1,000 for one animal; sold his herd 1862. d. Derby 22 March 1880. Saddle and Sirloin by the Druid (1885) 384–9.

BOLDERO, Henry George (son of Rev. John Boldero, R. of Ampton, Suffolk). b. 1797; captain 10 Foot 1828–30 when placed on h.p.; M.P. for Chippenham 1831–32 and 1835–59; clerk of the ordnance 9 Sep. 1841 to 1846; fought a duel in Osterley park with Craven Fitzhardinge Berkeley, M.P. for Cheltenham, 15 July 1842. d. Charles st. St. James’s sq. London 9 April 1873.

BOLENO, Harry, stage name of Henry Boleno Mason (son of S. Mason, a clerk in the Victualling office, Somerset house, London). b. April 1821; learnt from Andrew Ducrow the Grecian Statues; played in the first pantomimes produced at Lyceum, Strand, Standard and City of London theatres; a dancer at White Conduit house and Eagle tavern; clown at T.R. Dublin 10 years; landlord of The Clown tavern in Williamson sq. Liverpool and of The Catherine Wheel, Great Windmill st. London; kept the Opera Stores Covent Garden; clown at Drury Lane theatre 1860–70 and at Surrey theatre 1874–75; landlord of the Swan tavern Windsor; author of several burlesques and ballets. (m. about 1849 Emma dau. of Thomas Davie of Hoddesdon, Herts. maltster, she was b. 27 Jany. 1832 and d. 18 Oct. 1867, as a columbine she has never been excelled). d. The Swan tavern, Windsor 25 Jany. 1875. The Players ii, 287 (1860), portrait; Illust. Sp. and Dr. News ii, 268 (1874), portrait.

BOLINGBROKE, Henry St. John, 4 Viscount. b. 6 March 1786; succeeded 18 Dec. 1824. d. North college, Elgin 1 Oct. 1851. I.L.N. xix, 450, 663 (1851).

BOLINGBROKE, Henry (son of Nathaniel Bolingbroke of Norwich). b. Norwich 25 Feb. 1785; sailed for Demerara 28 Nov. 1798, returned to England 21 Oct. 1805; deputy vendue master at Surinam in Guiana 1807–13; in business at Norwich; published A voyage to the Demerary 1807. d. Norwich 11 Feb. 1855.

BOLLAERT, William. b. 1807; chemical assistant at Royal Institution, London; assayer and chemist in survey of silver mines 329in Peru; made a survey of province of Tarapaca 1827; one of the first white men who crossed the desert of Atacama; served as a volunteer under Sir J. M. Doyle in Portugese war 1832–33; created a knight of Order of the Tower and Sword of Portugal; explored Texas, New Granada, Ecuador, Peru and Chili; author of Antiquarian and other researches in New Granada 1860; Wars of succession of Portugal and Spain 2 vols. 1870. d. 15 Nov. 1876 in 69 year. Journal of Royal Geog. Soc. xlvii, 148–50 (1877).

BOLLAND, William Proctor (2 son of Sir Wm. Bolland 1772–1840, Baron of Court of Exchequer). Educ. at Eton; barrister I.T. 6 May 1842; the original of Fred. Bayham in Thackeray’s The Newcomes, and of Wm. Bowker in Yates’s Land at last. d. Clifton 10 June 1863 aged 47.

BOLOGNA, Sir Nichola, Count Delle Catene (son of Baron Paolo Sceberras). C.M.G. 1833, K.C.M.G. 4 Dec. 1868. d. Valetta, Malta 1875.

BOLTON, Daniel. Second lieut. R.E. 14 Dec. 1811, colonel 13 Dec. 1854 to 20 June 1859; M.G. 20 June 1859. d. Capetown, Cape of Good Hope 16 May 1860 aged 66.

BOLTON, George (son of Mr. Bolton of Piccadilly, London, tailor). b. 9 May 1824; Manager of Olympic theatre 1846–47, of Marylebone and Queen’s theatres, and of Drury Lane theatre 1852; brought out about 1846 a comic weekly paper called Nonsuch a farrago of something, nothing, everything and many things besides; author of Nothing, in rhyme and prose 1845; All about love and jealousy, an original comedy in 5 acts produced at Olympic theatre 13 April 1846. d. 13 Philadelphia terrace, Mount gardens, Lambeth 25 May 1868.

BOLTON, Rev. James Jay (5 son of Rev. Robert Bolton of Henley on Thames, dissenting minister). b. Southdown college near Weymouth 11 Feb. 1824; went to the United States 1836; ed. at College Point New York and C. C. coll. Cam., scholar, B.A. 1848; C. of Saffron Walden, Essex 1849–51; C. of St. Michael’s, Chester sq. Pimlico, London 1851–52; Minister of St. Paul’s chapel, Kilburn 1852 to death; chaplain to Earl Ducie 1852; has never been surpassed as a childrens’ preacher; author of Fragments of the great diamond set for young people, being a variety of addresses for children 1856, 3 ed. 3301861; Life lessons, scripture truths for the young 1862. d. Kilburn parsonage 8 April 1863. Selected sermons of Rev. James Bolton 1863, portrait.

BOLTON, Jasper. b. Ballykisteen, co. Tipperary; land agent to Earl of Derby’s estates in Ireland 1862 to death. d. Limerick 19 Nov. 1871 aged 30. Quickly ripened or recollections of the late Jasper Bolton (1872), portrait.

BOLTON, John Henry. b. Dec. 1795; in the commissariat department; solicitor at 1 New sq. Lincoln’s Inn, London 1828 to death; president of Incorporated law society 1868–69. d. Lee terrace, Blackheath, Kent 13 Oct. 1873.

BOLTON, Rev. William Jay. Educ. at Caius coll. Cam., Hulsean prizeman 1852, B.A. 1853, M. A. 1857; V. of St. John’s Stratford, Essex 1866–81; V. of St. James’s, Bath 1881 to death; author of Evidences of Christianity from the early Fathers 1853; Fireside preaching 1856; Footsteps of the flock 1860; The great Anti-Christ 1870. d. Pelham, Oldfield park, Bath 28 May 1884 in 68 year.

BONAPARTE, Jerome Napoleon (elder son of Jerome Bonaparte 1784–1860, king of Westphalia). b. Camberwell, London 7 July 1805. d. Baltimore 17 June 1870. Bingham’s Marriages of the Bonapartes ii, 191–94 (1881).

BONAPARTE, Napoleon Eugène Louis Jean Joseph (only child of Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte 1808–73, Napoleon iii Emperor of France). b. Palace of the Tuileries, Paris 16 March 1856; went with his father to the seat of war 1870, present at capture of Saarbrück 2 Aug. 1870; landed at Dover 8 Sep. 1870; lived at Camden house, Chislehurst, Kent 10 Dec. 1870 to 12 Oct. 1871 and 1874–79; a cadet at Royal military college Woolwich 12 Oct. 1871 to 1874 where a statue of him by Count Gleichen was unveiled 13 Jany 1883; left Southampton 27 Feb. 1879; killed by Zulus in valley of Ityolyozi, Zululand 1 June 1879, buried in St. Mary’s church Chislehurst 12 July 1879. Life of the Prince Imperial of France by Ellen Barlee 1880, portrait; Graphic xix, 633, 637, 644 (1879), 3 portraits, xxvii, 53 (1883); I.L.N. 16 July 1879, portrait; The life of Napoleon iii by Blanchard Jerrold iv, 427 (1882), 2 portraits.

BONAR, Rev. John (son of Rev. Archibald Bonar of Cramond, Midlothian). b. Cramond; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; licensed by presbytery 331of Edin. 30 April 1823; ordained 11 July 1826; minister of Larbert and Dunipace March 1826 to 24 May 1843 when he joined in the free secession; Convener of committee for colonial and continental missions in the Free church 1846; minister at Aberdeen Dec. 1846 and at the Renfield st. church, Glasgow 1848–54; D.D. Edin. 1857; author of The established church of Scotland as it was and as it is 1845. d. Edinburgh 20 Dec. 1863 in 63 year. Our Scottish Clergy, second series (1849) 149–55.

BONAR, William (3 son of Andrew Bonar of Edinburgh, banker). b. Edin. 3 Jany. 1798; ed. at high school and Univ. Edin.; a partner in bank of Ramsay, Bonar and Co. 1817 to date when bank was merged in Bank of Scotland; employed a missionary to look after the ignorant and neglected poor in Edin.; F.R.S. Edin. 1822; author of several religious tracts. d. Chatsworth house, Malvern 9 Nov. 1866.

BOND, Henry John Hayles (son of Rev. Wm. Bond, R. of Whitacre, Norfolk). b. Whitacre Dec. 1801; ed. at Norwich gr. sch.; studied medicine at Cambridge, London, Edinburgh and Paris; M.B. Cam. 1825, M.D. 1831; F.R.C.P. 1835; practised at Cam.; Regius professor of physic in Univ. of Cam. 27 Jany. 1851 to Jany. 1872; a member of General medical council 29 Oct. 1858 to 29 Oct. 1863; author of Analysis of an elementary course of lectures on Pathology 1866. d. Regent st. Cambridge 3 Sep. 1883.

BOND, John James (son of Andrew Bond of Ashford, Kent). b. 9 Dec. 1819; Clerk in public record office at Royal riding school, Carlton House 1841, senior assistant keeper to death; author of Handy book of rules and tables for verifying dates with the Christian Era 1866, new ed. 1874. d. 96 Philbeach gardens, Earl’s Court, London 9 Dec. 1883.

BOND, R. Sebastian. b. Liverpool 1808; landscape painter; exhibited 7 pictures at Royal Academy, 13 at British Institution, and 5 at Suffolk st. gallery 1846–72. d. Jany. 1886.

BOND, Stephen. b. St. Columb, Cornwall 24 March 1826; ed. at Stonyhurst; entered Society of Jesus at Hodder 7 Sep. 1843; Matric. at Univ. of London July 1846, B.A. 1848; superior of the seminary adjoining Stonyhurst college Aug. 1861; professed of the four vows 2 Feb. 1862; vicar general to Bishop Etheridge in Demerara 1864–69. d. Wigan 10 Jany. 1871.

332BONE, Henry Pierce (eld. son of Henry Bone of London, enamellist 1755–1834). b. Islington, London 6 Nov. 1779; exhibited 210 pictures, miniatures and enamels at the R.A. 1799–1855; painted classical subjects 1806–33, and enamels 1833–55; enamel painter to Duchess of Kent 1831, to Queen Victoria 1837, to Prince Albert 1841; his collection of 172 enamels was sold at Christies 13–14 March 1856. d. 22 Percy st. Bedford sq. London 21 Oct. 1855. Notice of H. Bone R.A. and his works together with those of his son H. P. Bone by J. Jope Rogers 1880.

BONE, Hugh. b. Ayrshire 1777; ed. at Univ. of Glasgow, M.D. 26 April 1815; L.R.C.P. London 26 June 1815; inspector general of hospitals 2 Oct. 1843 to 24 Nov. 1845 when placed on h.p. d. Picardy place, Edin. 13 Feb. 1858.

BONER, Charles (only son of Charles Boner of Bath, who d. 14 Aug. 1833 aged 74). b. Weston near Bath 29 April 1815; ed. at Bath and Tiverton; lived with John Constable the painter as tutor to his sons 1831–37; lived with Prince Thurn und Taxis at St. Emeran, Ratisbon as tutor 1840–60; settled at Munich, March 1860; corresponded with Mary Russell Mitford 1845–55; special correspondent to Daily News at Vienna Aug. 1865 to Aug. 1866; author of Chamois hunting 1853, new ed. 1860; The new dance of death and other poems 1857; Transylvania its products and its people 1865 and other books. d. 5 Louisen Strasse, Munich 7 April 1870. Memoirs and letters of C. Boner, edited by R. M. Kettle 2 vols. 1871.

BONHAM, Edward Walter (2 son of Henry Bonham of Titness park, Berkshire, M.P. for Rye who d. 9 April 1830). b. 24 Nov. 1809; consul at Tabreez, Persia 11 May 1837; transferred to Calais 2 Feb. 1846, and to Naples 14 Jany. 1859; consul general at Naples 5 May 1862 to 5 April 1872 when he retired on a compensation allowance; C.B. 13 Oct. 1865. d. the British consulate Boulogne 15 March 1886.

BONHAM, Henry Frederic (brother of the preceding). b. 2 June 1808; ed. at the Charterhouse; Cornet 10 Hussars 22 May 1829, lieut. col. 28 April 1846 to 27 Feb. 1852 when placed on h.p.; appointed to the Brighton and Canterbury cavalry depôt June 1854. d. 28 Brunswick sq. Hove, Brighton 16 Feb. 1856.

BONHAM, Pinson (eld. son of Samuel Bonham of Great Warley place, Essex who d. 25 Jany. 1821). Clerk in Court of Chancery 10 years; 333ensign 60 Foot 24 April 1789; served in West Indies 22 years; deputy quartermaster general 10 years; governor of Surinam or Dutch Guiana to 1814 when colony was surrendered to the Dutch; major 69 Foot 30 March 1797 to 1814, general 10 Jany. 1837. d. Great Warley, Essex 19 April 1855 aged 92.

BONHAM, Sir Samuel George, 1 Baronet (only son of George Bonham, captain H.E.I. Co.’s navy who d. 1810). b. Faversham, Kent 7 Sep. 1803; governor of Prince of Wales Island, Singapore and Malacca 1837–47; chief superintendent of British trade in China, and governor and commander in chief of Hong Kong 27 Nov. 1847 to 24 Dec. 1853; C.B. 27 April 1848, K.C.B. 22 Nov. 1850; created baronet 27 Nov. 1852. d. Paddington, London 8 Oct. 1863. The Chinese Repository vols. xvii-xx.

BONHAM-CARTER John (son of John Carter of Petersfield, M.P. for Portsmouth who assumed additional name of Bonham). b. 13 Oct. 1817; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; M.P. for Winchester 1847–74; a lord of the Treasury 1866–68; chairman of committees of House of Commons 1872–74. d. Adhurst St. Mary’s, Petersfield 26 Nov. 1884. I.L.N. lx, 601, 607 (1872), portrait.

BONNAR, William (son of Mr. Bonnar of Edinburgh, house-painter). b. Edin. June 1800; foreman at a leading decorative painters; member of Royal Scottish Academy; painted many pictures which became popular when engraved; very successful in rural scenes and pictures of child life; painted portraits latterly, many of which were engraved by his sons. d. London st. Edin. 27 Jany. 1853.

BONNER, John George. Major Madras artillery 9 June 1825 to 4 July 1829; M.G. 4 July 1829; inspector general of military stores for India; F.R.S. 18 June 1840. d. 17a Great Cumberland st. Hyde park, London 3 March 1867 aged 79.

BONNEY, Francis Augustus Burdett (son of John Augustus Bonney of London, solicitor who d. 30 Dec. 1813). b. 1804; ed. at Ealing; made many contributions chiefly in verse to literary journals especially European Magazine; studied medicine in Edin. and Paris; L.R.C.S. Edin. 1829, L.S.A. 1833; practised at Brentford 1833, Chichester and London; author of Nugæ or poetic trifles 1821, and of some valuable papers in medical journals. (m. Miss 334Elliott, proprietress of Elm house lunatic asylum, Queen’s Elm, Brompton, London). d. Elm house 13 Oct. 1877. Medical Circular i, 303 (1852).

BONNEY, Venerable Henry Kaye (son of Rev. Henry Kaye Bonney, R. of King’s Cliffe, Northamptonshire who d. 20 March 1810). b. Tansor, Northamptonshire 22 May 1780; ed. at the Charterhouse and Em. coll. Cam.; migrated to Christ’s coll., B.A. 1802, M.A. 1805, D.D. 1824; Preb. of Lincoln cathedral 8 Jany. 1807; R. of King’s Cliffe March 1810 to death; V. of Nassington 1810–29; archdeacon of Bedford 10 Dec. 1821, installed 2 Feb. 1822; archdeacon of Lincoln 22 Feb. 1845 to death; canon residentiary of Lincoln 1845 to death; author of The life of the Right Rev. Father in God, Jeremy Taylor 1815; Historic notices in reference to Fotheringay 1821; The life and remains of Bishop Middleton 1824. d. King’s Cliffe rectory 24 Dec. 1862.

BONNEY, Venerable Thomas Kaye (brother of the preceding). b. Tansor, Northamptonshire 20 June 1782; ed. at Clare coll. Cam., B.A. 1803, M.A. 1806; R. of Coningsby Lincs. 1814 to death; R. of Normanton, Rutland 1814 to death; Preb. of Lincoln 17 Oct. 1823 to death; archdeacon of Leicester 22 Jany. 1831 to death. d. Normanton rectory 7 April 1863.

BONOMI, Joseph (son of Giuseppe Bonomi of London, architect 1739–1808). b. 76 Great Titchfield st. London 9 Oct. 1796; ed. at Carshalton, Surrey; studied drawing at Royal Academy and sculpture under Nollekens; fellow Student with John Gibson in Rome; lived in Egypt and Syria 1824–32 and 1842–44; went to the Holy Land 1833; illustrated the Egyptological works of Wilkinson and Birch and nearly all those of Samuel Sharpe; curator of Sir John Soane’s Museum, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London 1861 to death; F.R.A.S, 8 Feb. 1861; author of Nineveh and its palaces 1852, new ed. 1869. d. The Camels, Wimbledon park, Surrey 3 March 1878. Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xxx, 216–19 (1879); The Proportions of the human figure by J. Bonomi, 5 ed. 1880, portrait; I.L.N. lxxii, 245 (1878), portrait.

BONTEIN, James (younger son of John Pitt Bontein, captain 1 Life guards). Groom of the privy chamber 1874 to death. d. Ambassadors’ court, St. James’s palace 16 Oct. 1884 aged 63.

BOOKER, Thomas (son of Thomas Booker of 56 New Bond st. London, publisher who d. 26 Feb. 1826). Printer at 37 Ranelagh st. Liverpool 3351840; printer and publisher at 9 Rupert st. Leicester sq. London 1848, and at 75 Great Queen st. to death; published The weekly register 4 Aug. 1849 to 26 Jany. 1850; The Catholic register and magazine 1850; Booker’s Pocket-Book directory. d. Richmond 9 Nov. 1859 aged 37.

BOOKER-BLAKEMORE, Thomas William (son of Rev. Luke Booker 1762–1836, V. of Dudley). b. Dudley 28 Sep. 1801; ed. at Hartlebury, Worcs.; tin plate manufacturer; took out patents for tin plate making 1837 and for manufacturing iron 1841; sheriff of Glamorganshire 1848; M.P. for Herefordshire 18 Oct. 1850 to death; took an active part on protectionist side in free trade controversy; A.I.C.E. 1850; assumed by r.l. additional name of Blakemore Sep. 1855; author of Treatise on the mineral basin of South Wales 1848. d. Kingston-upon-Thames 7 Nov. 1858.

BOOLE, George (son of Mr. Boole of Lincoln, tradesman). b. Lincoln 2 Nov. 1815; opened a school at Lincoln 1835; professor of mathematics in Queen’s college Cork 1849 to death; public examiner for degrees in Queen’s University of Ireland; LLD. Dublin 1852; Keith medallist of Royal Society of Edinburgh 1857; F.R.S. June 1857, Royal medallist 1844; hon. D.C.L. Oxford 1859; author of Mathematical analysis of logic 1847; Investigation of the laws of thought 1854, a work of astonishing originality and power; Treatise on differential equations 1859, 3 ed. 1872; Treatise on the calculus of finite differences 1860, new ed. 1880. (m. 1855 Mary dau. of Rev. Thomas Roupell Everest, R. of Wickwar, Gloucs., she was granted a civil list pension of £100, 19 June 1865). d. Blackrock near Cork 8 Dec. 1864. There are memorial windows to him in Lincoln cathedral and the college hall at Cork. Proc. of Royal Society xv, 6–11 (1867); Athenæum 23 Aug. 1884 pp. 237–39; G.M. xviii, 247–49 (1865); I.L.N. xlvi, 59, 61 (1865), portrait.

BOONE, Rev. James Shergold (son of Thomas Boone of Sunbury, Middlesex). b. 30 June 1799; ed. at Charterhouse 1812–16; student at Ch. Ch. Ox. 1816; Craven scholar 1817; won Chancellor’s prize for Latin verse, and Newdigate prize for English verse 1817; published anonymously a satire on Oxford University life called The Oxford Spy 2 parts 1818–19, which created a great sensation; chancellor’s prizeman 1820; B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; edited The Council of Ten a monthly periodical June 1822 to May 1823, wrote nearly all of it; Incumbent of St. John’s 336church Paddington June 1832 to death; edited The British Critic from Jany. 1827; author of An essay on the study of modern history 1821; Men and things in 1823, a poem in three epistles with notes 1823; The educational economy of England 1838; Sermons on various subjects and occasions 1853. d. 2 Stanhope st. Hyde park, London 24 March 1859. Mozley’s Reminiscences ii, 200–204 (1882); Notes and Queries 3rd series iii, 510, iv, 35, 98, 138, 153, 299.

BOONE, William. Bookseller at 480 Strand, London 1815–30 with his brother Thomas Boone who d. 21 April 1873 aged 83; moved to New Bond st. 1830; buyer of books for British Museum on death of Thomas Rodd 1849, retired 1860. d. 26 Nov. 1870 aged 75.

BOORMAN, James. b. Kent 1785; partner with Divie Bethune in New York 1805–13; founded with John Johnson firm of Boorman, Johnson and Co. leading mercantile house in New York, which was dissolved 1855; pres. of Hudson River railroad to 1863; founded the Bank of Commerce 1839. d. New York 24 Jany. 1866.

BOOSEY, Thomas. Foreign bookseller at 28 Holles st. Cavendish sq. London; published Italian operas of Bellini, Donizetti and Verdi down to 1854, when deprived of all his foreign copyrights by a decision of the House of Lords. d. 27 Notting hill sq. London 25 Oct. 1871 aged 76. C. Clark’s House of Lords Cases iv, 815–996 (1855).

BOOTH, Rev. George (youngest son of Wm. Booth of Masbrough, Yorkshire). Ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., pensioner; matric. from Lincoln coll. Ox. 16 May 1811 aged 19, B.A. 1813, M.A. 1816, B.D. 1823; fellow of Magdalen coll., vice pres. 1830, dean of divinity 1832; V. of Findon, Sussex 1833 to death; privately printed a quarto vol. of Latin poetry entitled Nugæ Canoræ 1826; composed a school song entitled Sicut lilium, carmen hortativum which is regularly sung by boys of Magdalen school on their breaking up. d. Findon vicarage 21 June 1859 in 68 year.

BOOTH, Henry (eld. son of Thomas Booth of Liverpool, corn merchant). b. Rodney st. Liverpool 4 April 1788; a corn merchant; one of chief promoters of scheme for making a railway between Liverpool and Manchester 1822, sec. and treasurer of the company 1826, managing director, the line was begun June 1826 and opened 15 Sep. 1830; suggested the multitubular boiler, coupling 337screws, spring buffers, and lubricating material for carriage axles, all of which are still used; sec. for northern section of London and North-Western railway July 1846, a director of the company October 1848 to 18 May 1859, presented by the Company with 3000 guineas 12 Oct. 1846 and 5000 guineas 9 April 1859; author of Sebastian a tragedy 1823; The rationale of the currency question 1847; Master and man a dialogue 1853, and many other small books. d. Eastbourne, Princes park, Liverpool 28 March 1869. Memoir of the late Henry Booth by Robert Smiles (1869).

BOOTH, Rev. James (eld. son of John Booth of Lava, co. Leitrim). b. Lava 25 Aug. 1806; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub., scholar 1829, B.A. 1832, LL.B. and LLD. 1842; principal of Bristol college 1840–43; vice principal of Collegiate institution Liverpool 1843–48; pres. of Literary and philosophical institution Liverpool 1848–51; lectured in London for Society of Arts 1848–54, fellow 1852, treasurer and chairman of the council 1855–57; C. of St. Anne’s Wandsworth, London 1854–59; V. of Stone, Bucks. 1859 to death: F.R.S. 22 Jany. 1846, F.R.A.S. 10 June 1859; author of Education and educational institutions 1846; Examination the province of the state 1847; A treatise on some new geometrical methods 2 vols. 1873–77. d. Stone vicarage 15 April 1878. Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xxxix, 219–25 (1879).

BOOTH, James (4 son of Thomas Booth of Toxteth lodge near Liverpool). b. 1796 or 1797; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; barrister L.I. 10 Feb. 1824; member of Royal commission for inquiring into municipal corporations of England and Wales 1833; counsel to the speaker and examiner of recognizances Sep. 1839; prepared the Companies, Lands, and Railways Clauses Consolidation acts 1845, and 8 other consolidation acts 1847; secretary to Board of trade 10 Oct. 1850 to 1865; member of Royal commission for inquiring into trades unions 12 Feb. 1867, which made 11 reports 1867–69; C.B. 6 July 1866; author of The problem of the world and the church reconsidered in three letters to a friend by a Septuagenarian 1871, 3 ed. 1879. d. 2 Princes gardens, Kensington, London 11 May 1880.

BOOTH, John (son of Thomas Booth of Killerby near Catterick, Yorkshire, cattle breeder who d. 1835). Breeder of shorthorns at Killerby 1819 to 1852; judged a great deal at cattle shows in England and Ireland; sold all his 338stock 21 Sep. 1852; master of the Bedale hunt 3 seasons. d. Killerby 7 July 1857 in 70 year. W. Carr’s History of rise and progress of Killerby herds of shorthorns 1867; Saddle and Sirloin by the Druid (1870) 195–207.

BOOTH, John Kay (eld. son of John Booth of Brush house, Ecclesfield). b. Yorkshire; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 24 June 1805; L.C.P. 30 Sep. 1809; fellow Royal Med. and Chir. Soc. 1810; settled at Birmingham; physician to general hospital there 1812–35; physician to Queen’s hospital there; principal of Queen’s college Birm. 1856; one of founders of Medical school of Birmingham, and the first lecturer there on practice of physic. d. Brush house, Ecclesfield 14 Jany. 1859 aged 80.

BOOTH, Junius Brutus (son of Richard Booth of Queen st. Bloomsbury, London, attorney who d. 1840 aged 76). b. St. Pancras, London 1 May 1796; made his début on the stage at Peckham as Campillo in The Honeymoon 13 Dec. 1813; played in Belgium and Holland 1814 and 1826, and at Covent Garden 1815; acted in the provinces 1818 and at Drury Lane 7 Aug. 1820 to 13 Jany. 1821; went to the United States April 1821; appeared at Park theatre New York 2 Oct. 1821; managed the Camp theatre New Orleans 1828; played at Drury Lane, Surrey and Sadler’s Wells theatres 1836–7; lived on his farm at Bel Air 30 miles from Baltimore 1842 to death; made his last appearance at St. Charles theatre New Orleans 19 Nov. 1852. d. on board the J. S. Chenoweth between New Orleans and Cincinnati 30 Nov. 1852. bur. in Greenmount cemetery Baltimore 11 Dec. The elder and the younger Booth by A. B. Clarke (1882) 1–116, 3 portraits; Memoirs of J. B. Booth (1817), portrait; The tragedian by T. R. Gould (1868), portrait; Phelps’s Players of a century (1880); T. A. Brown’s History of the American stage (1870) 40, portrait.

Note.—His son John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln, pres. of the U.S. at Ford’s theatre, Washington, Good Friday 14 April 1865, he was himself shot near Bowling Green 26 April.

BOOTH, Richard (brother of John Booth who d. 7 July 1857). Breeder of shorthorns at Studley farm, Yorkshire 1814–34 when he sold his herd; breeder at Warlaby, Yorkshire 1835 to death; gained many medals and prizes at cattle shows. d. Warlaby 31 Oct. 1864 aged 76. Saddle and Sirloin by the Druid (1870) 195–207.

BOOTH, Sir Robert Gore, 4 Baronet. b. Bath 25 Aug. 1805; succeeded 23 Oct. 1814; 339sheriff of Sligo 1830; M.P. for Sligo 12 March 1850 to death; chairman of the Musical Union; lord lieutenant of Sligo 7 Dec. 1868. d. Lissadell, co. Sligo 21 Dec. 1876. Burke’s Portrait gallery ii, 129 (1833).

BOOTH, Sarah. b. Birmingham early in 1789; a dancer at Manchester about 1804; first appeared in London at Surrey theatre 1810 as Cherry in a burletta founded on the Beaux Stratagem; played at Covent Garden 23 Nov. 1810, at the Olympic 19 Dec. 1821, at Drury Lane 2 Feb. 1822, at Haymarket and Adelphi theatres; retired about 1828, last appeared for a benefit at Marylebone theatre 1841. d. 39 Queen’s sq. Bloomsbury, London 30 Dec. 1867. Mrs. C. B. Wilson’s Our actresses i, 121–7 (1844); Oxberry’s Dramatic biography iv, 55–65 (1826), portrait; Theatrical Inquisitor ii, 69–74 (1813), portrait.

BOOTH, William. Ensign 53 Foot 8 May 1806; lieut. col. 41 Foot 11 July 1837 to 12 Sep. 1843 when placed on h.p.; colonel 15 Foot 10 Nov. 1861 to death; L.G. 27 March 1863. d. London 20 April 1868 aged 77.

BOOTH, William. Deputy commissary general 18 Dec. 1818 to 1824 when placed on h.p.; served in Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands principal clerk of survey at Dublin 1824 to 1856; C.B. 17 Aug. 1849. d. 17 Lansdowne crescent, Cheltenham 4 May 1880 in 88 year.

BOOTH, Sir Williamson, 2 Baronet. b. Stanstead Abbots, Herts. 15 July 1810; ed. at Eton; succeeded 24 Jany. 1850; sheriff of Cambridge and Hunts 1855. d. Paxton park, St. Neots 26 Aug. 1877.

BOOTHBY, Benjamin (eld. son of Benjamin Boothby of Cornwall place, Holloway, London). b. Doncaster 5 Feb. 1803; barrister G.I. 28 April 1841; revising barrister for West Riding of Yorkshire 1845–52; judge of Court of Record of Pontefract and recorder 1848–53; second judge of supreme court of South Australia Feb. 1853, sworn in 17 Oct. 1853, presided as senior judge Dec. 1856 to July 1858; deputy judge of Court of Vice Admiralty 1856–61; removed from judgeship of Supreme Court by South Australian parliament July 1867 owing to his objections to the Real Property or Torrens act. d. Adelaide 21 June 1868.

BOOTHBY, Rev. Sir Brooke William Robert, 10 Baronet. b. Winchester 21 Jany. 1809; ed. at Charterhouse and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1833; fellow of All Souls’ 340college 1829; R. of Elmley, Kent 1846–52; R. of Welwyn, Herts. 17 Sep. 1852 to death; succeeded 21 April 1846. d. Tunbridge Wells 21 Sep. 1865.

BOOTHBY, Lady Louisa Cranstoun (eld. dau. of Frederick Hayes Macnamara, ensign 52 Foot). b. 1 April 1812; a juvenile theatrical wonder under name of Louisa Mordaunt, made her first appearance in London at Drury Lane theatre 16 Oct. 1829 as the Widow Cheerly in Cherry’s comedy of The Soldier’s Daughter; acted at the Haymarket 1830, 1837–39 and 1840–44; re-appeared at Drury Lane Oct. 1832; acted at the Queen’s 1835 and Strand; played Constance in The love chase nearly 100 nights from 9 Oct. 1837 and Lady Gay Spanker in London Assurance 4 March 1841 in both of which parts she was unequalled; played leading parts in genteel comedy at Covent Garden 1839–40. (m. (1) Jany. 1831 John Alexander Nisbett of Brettenham hall, Suffolk, Cornet 1 Life Guards, he d. 2 Oct. 1831. m. (2) 15 Oct. 1844 Sir Wm. Boothby, 9 baronet of Ashbourne hall, Derbyshire, he was b. 25 March 1782 and d. 21 April 1846). d. Rose Mount, St. Leonard’s on Sea 16 Jany. 1858. C. B. Wilson’s Our actresses ii, 66–88 (1844), portrait; Theatrical Times ii, 121, 130 (1847), portrait; Dramatic and musical review iii, 498, 527 (1844); I.L.N. x, 256 (1847), portrait.

BOOTT, Francis (son of Kirk Boott of Boston, Massachusetts). b. Boston 26 Sep. 1792; ed. at Univs. of Harvard and Edinburgh, M.D. Edin. 1824; surgeon in London 1825–31; lecturer on botany in Webb st. school of medicine 1825–31; member of senate and council of Univ. coll. London; F.L.S. 1819, sec. 1832–39, treasurer Nov. 1856 to May 1861; wore a blue coat with brass buttons and a yellow waistcoat the costume of 1830 down to his death; author of Memoir of the life and medical opinions of John Armstrong, M.D. 2 vols. 1833–34; Illustrations of the genus Carex 4 parts 1858–67. d. 24 Gower st. London 25 Dec. 1863. Proc. of Linnæan Society (1864) 23–27.

BORCHARDT, Louis. b. Landsburg on Warthe, Prussia 1813; ed. at Univ. of Berlin, M.D. 1838; practised as a physician at Zorbich and then at Breslau; imprisoned in fortress of Glatz 1848–50; practised at Bradford, Yorkshire 1850–52, and at Manchester 1852 to death, phys. to Childrens’ Dispensary June 1853, pres. of Manchester Medical Society. d. Swinton house, Fallowfield, Manchester 15 Nov. 1883.

341BORLAND, James. b. Ayr April 1774; surgeon’s mate 42 Foot 20 Dec. 1792; surgeon to the forces in St. Domingo 1796–8; deputy inspector of army hospitals 5 Dec. 1799; established existing system of regimental hospitals 1805; inspector general 22 Jany. 1807; head of medical department of the army in Mediterranean 1810–16 during which time he organised the hospitals of the Anglo-Sicilian contingent; retired on h.p. 25 May 1816; received order of St. Maurice and St. Lazare of Savoy; phys. extraord. to Duke of Kent. d. Bridgeman house, Teddington 22 Feb. 1863. G.M. xiv, 666 (1863).

BOROUGH, Sir Edward Richard, 2 Baronet. b. Merrion sq. Dublin 20 June 1800; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox.; army agent in Dublin; succeeded 22 Jany. 1837. d. 61 Fitzwilliam sq. north, Dublin 3 Dec. 1879.

BORRADAILE, Edward Sidney (son of the succeeding). b. Littlehampton 30 March 1845; assistant engineer Launceston and Western railway Tasmania 1868–9; wrote for the Press 1870–3; lost whilst exploring in North Australia June 1874, two mountains are named after himself and his companion Mr. Permain in memory of the event.

BORRADAILE, Harry (son of Henry Borradaile of London 1759–1822). b. 19 July 1800; in the Bombay civil service 1819–44; compiled for publication by Government Reports of select suits decided in the Suddur Adawluts 1825; translated the Muyook (Sanscrit Law book) into Mahratta and Goozerattee 1827; author of Collection of the rules and customs of various castes as affecting civil rights; and of A table of a decimal system of accounts 1853; a member of the India law commission at Calcutta under T. B. Macaulay. d. London 7 Oct. 1876.

BORRELL, Henry Perigall. Learnt business in London; merchant at Smyrna 1818 to death; very successful in discovery of inedited Greek coins; author of Notice sur quelques médailles grecques des Rois de Chypre, Paris 1836 and of papers in Revue Numismatique, Numismatic Chronicle and various German numismatic periodicals; his collection of coins, antiquities and gems was sold in London 1851. d. Smyrna 2 Oct. 1851 aged 56.

BORRER, William (eld. son of Wm. Borrer of Parkyns manor, Hurstpierpoint 1753–1832). b. Henfield, Sussex 13 June 1781; endeavoured to cultivate every critical British species and all the hardy exotic plants he could obtain, having no less than 6660 species; 342wrote descriptions of species of Myosotis, Rosa, and nearly all of Rubus for Sir W. Hooker’s British Flora 1830 and subsequent editions; several plants were named after him and the genus Borreria of Acharius amongst lichens; his herbarium of British plants is kept at the Royal gardens, Kew; F.L.S. 1805, F.R.S. 4 June 1835. d. Barrow hill, Henfield 10 Jany. 1862. Proc. of Linnæan Society (1862) 85–90; Lower’s Worthies of Sussex (1865) 71–73.

BORRIE, John (son of Peter Borrie, proprietor of the Dundee foundry). b. Dundee 27 Nov. 1837; employed by Bolckow and Vaughan of Middlesbrough, engineers 1856–61; resident engineer at Cleveland iron works Eston 1866–71; a consulting engineer 1871 to death; designed and set to work the hopper-and-spout kilns for calcining ironstone 1869, which have become general, reducing cost of labour very considerably; M.I.M.E. 1869. d. Stockton-on Tees 8 Feb. 1884. Engineering 26 Nov. 1869.

BORROW, George Henry (younger son of Thomas Borrow, captain in West Norfolk militia who d. 1823). b. East Dereham, Norfolk 5 July 1803; ed. at Norwich gr. sch. 1815–18; articled in office of Simpson and Rackham solicitors Norwich 1818–23; worked for Sir Richard Phillips the publisher in London; travelled in France, Germany, Russia, the East and Spain 1833–39, acting as agent for the British and Foreign Bible Society; sent letters to the Morning Herald 1837–39, being the first of the newspaper correspondents; travelled in Albania, Wallachia, Hungary and Turkey 1844; author of Romantic ballads translated from the Danish 1826; Targum or metrical translations from 30 languages and dialects 1835; The Zincali, or an account of the Gypsies of Spain 2 vols. 1841, 4 ed. 1846; The Bible in Spain 3 vols. 1843, new ed. 1873; Lavengro the scholar, the gypsy, the priest 3 vols. 1851, 3 ed. 1872 which is in a great degree an autobiography; The Romany Rye 2 vols. 1851, 3 ed. 1872; Wild Wales 3 vols. 1862, 2 ed. 1865. d. Oulton near Lowestoft, Norfolk 26 July 1881. Lavengro vol. i, (1851), portrait; The Norvicensian April 1882, pp. 109–14.

BORROWES, Rev. Sir Erasmus Dixon, 8 Baronet. b. Portarlington, Queen’s county 21 Sep. 1799; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; succeeded 7 March 1834; R. of parish of Ballyroan, Queen’s county. d. Lauragh near Portarlington 27 May 1866.

343BORROWS, Rev. William. b. Derby 15 Nov. 1781; ed. at Quorn, Derbyshire, Winkfield, Wilts, and St. Edmund Hall Ox., B.A. 1812, M.A. 1815; C. of Over, Oxon 1812–15; P.C. of St. Paul’s chapel, Clapham 1815 to 1 July 1851; author of Reformation from Popery two sermons 1818; Sacred maxims collected from the discourses of W. B. by an attached member of his congregation 1852. d. 3 April 1852. bur. Derby churchyard 10 April. Select sermons by the late Rev. Wm. Borrows with a brief memoir edited by Rev. Philip Gell (1852).

BORTHWICK, Cunninghame Borthwick, 12 Baron (2 son of Patrick Borthwick who d. 12 April 1840 aged 60). b. Edinburgh 6 June 1813; ed. at high school and univ. of Edin.; head of firm of Borthwick, Wark and Co. of London, stockbrokers; established his claim to this barony (which had been dormant since 1772) before a committee of House of Lords 5 May 1870; bought Ravenstone castle, Wigtonshire in 1874 for £85,000; a representative peer for Scotland April 1880. d. Ravenstone castle 24 Dec. 1885. P. H M’Kerlie’s Lands in Galloway ii, 445–50 (1877).

BORTHWICK, Michael Andrews. b. Dunbar, East Lothian 30 Oct. 1810; A.I.C.E. 1833, M.I.C.E. 1845; resident engineer of Northern and Eastern railway 1837 and subsequently manager; engaged with Stephenson carrying out Egyptian railway between Alexandria and Cairo. d. Pernambuco 3 June 1856. Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xvi, 108–13 (1857).

BORTHWICK, Peter (only son of Thomas Borthwick of Edinburgh). b. Cornbank, parish of Borthwick, Mid Lothian 13 Sep. 1804; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; entered Jesus coll. Cam.; fellow commoner of Downing coll.; contested Evesham 1832 and St. Ives, Penryn and Falmouth 1847; M.P. for Evesham 6 Jany. 1835 to 23 July 1847; barrister G.I. 28 April 1847; edited the Morning Post 1850 to death; author of A brief statement of Holy Scriptures concerning the second Advent 1830; A Lecture on slavery 1836. d. 11 Walton villas, Brompton, London 18 Dec. 1852. G.M. xxxix, 318–20 (1853); I.L.N. ii, 8 (1843), portrait, xxi, 563 (1852), xxii, 11 (1853).

BORWICK, Rev. W. B. b. Orkney; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; licensed to preach 1834; pastor of the United Secession church in the Overgate, Dundee May 1835, and of United presbyterian church in Bell st. Dundee 1850 to May 1866. d. Newport 15 June 1870 aged 62. Monument erected in Western cemetery Dundee Jany. 1871. W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities (1873) 355–7.

344BOSANQUET, Augustus Henry (2 son of Wm. Bosanquet of London, banker who d. 21 June 1800 aged 43). b. 1 March 1792; ed. at Harrow and Haileybury; in Bengal civil service 1811–17; one of founders of Universal Life insurance company 1842, director 1842–77. d. 19 Feb. 1877.

BOSANQUET, George William (4 son of Rev. Robert Wm. Bosanquet 1800–80, R. of Bolingbroke, co. Lincoln). b. 4 July 1845; ensign 85 Foot 19 April 1864 to 1866; clerk in the Exchequer and audit department. d. 2 Brunswick terrace, Kensington 24 Jany. 1869. Essays and stories by the late G. W. Bosanquet, with an introductory chapter by Captain C. B. Brackenbury, R.A. 1870.

BOSANQUET, James Whatman (2 son of Samuel Bosanquet of Forest house, Waltham forest, Essex 1768–1843). b. 26 Jany. 1804; ed. at Westminster school; taken into his father’s bank 1822; F.R.A.S.; author of Chronology of the times of Daniel, Ezra and Nehemiah 1848; Messiah the Prince 1866, 2 ed. 1869; Hebrew chronology from Solomon to Christ 1867. d. Claysmore, Enfield 22 Dec. 1877.

BOSANQUET, Samuel Richard (brother of the preceding). b. London 1 April 1800; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1829; barrister I.T. 5 May 1826; a revising barrister 1832; chairman of Monmouth quarter sessions 35 years; wrote many leading articles for The Times; author of New system of logic 1839, 2 ed. 1870; The rights of the poor vindicated 1841; Principia, a series of essays 1843; Prophecies of Zechariah interpreted 1877; Select interpretations of Scripture 1878. d. Dingestow court, Monmouth 27 Dec. 1882.

BOSIO, Angiolina. b. Turin 22 Aug. 1830; made her début at Teatro Rè, Milan in I Due Foscari July 1846; sang in Paris 1848, in America 1849–51; sang at Covent Garden theatre London during seasons 1852 to 1855 and 1858; sang at the Lyceum theatre 1856 and 1857; première cantatrice to Imperial Court of St. Petersburg 1858 being the first singer to obtain that honour. d. St. Petersburg 12 April 1859. E. C. Clayton’s Queens of song ii, 317–29 (1863).

BOSSEY, Peter (eld. child of Francis Bossey, constructor in royal carriage department of Woolwich arsenal). b. Woolwich 3 April 1806; apprenticed to Thomas Bayles of Woolwich; studied at United Borough hospital; L.S.A. 1826, M.R.C.S. 1828, F.R.C.S. 1852; surgeon to Convict hulk establishment at Woolwich 345to 1848 when he retired on pension; fellow of Med. and Chir. Soc. 1846; gave up practice 1857; author of many statistical reports and papers on diseases and mortality of prisoners printed in Reports of Superintendent of Convict establishment at Woolwich. d. Worthing 22 Dec. 1862. Proc. of Royal Med. and Chir. Soc. iv, 203–7 (1864).

BOSTOCK, James. Proprietor of Bostock and Wombwell’s menagerie, d. 12 April 1878 aged 63.

BOSTON, Florance George Henry Irby, 5 Baron. b. Florence 9 March 1837; sheriff of Anglesea 1865; succeeded 22 Dec. 1869. d. Porthamel Anglesey 4 Jany. 1877.

BOSTON, George Irby, 3 Baron. b. Grosvenor st. London 24 Dec. 1777; Cornet 1 Dragoons 1794, major 13 Light Dragoons 22 Jany. 1801 to 14 Aug. 1801; succeeded 23 March 1825. d. Hedsor lodge near Maidenhead 12 March 1856.

BOSTON, George Ives Irby, 4 Baron. b. Grosvenor st. London 14 Sep. 1802; succeeded 12 March 1856. d. Wilton crescent, London 22 Dec. 1869.

BOSWELL, Sir James, 2 Baronet (son of Sir Alexander Boswell, 1 Baronet b. 1775 and killed by James Stuart in a duel 26 March 1822). b. Dec. 1806. d. Auchinleck, Ayrshire 4 Nov. 1857.

BOSWORTH, Rev. Joseph. b. Derbyshire early in 1789; ed. at Repton gr. sch., Univ. of Aberdeen, and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A., M.A., and LLD. Aberdeen; B.D. at Cam. 1834, D.D. 1839; incorp. D.D. of Ch. Ch. Ox. 1858; V. of Horwood Parva, Bucks. 1817–29; chaplain at Amsterdam 1829–32 and at Rotterdam 1832–40; V. of Waith, Lincs. 1841–45 and 1848–58; R. of Water Stratford, Bucks. 1858–75; F.R.S. 4 June 1829; professor of Anglo Saxon in Univ. of Oxford 4 Nov. 1858 to death; made over to Univ. of Cam. by deed of gift in 1867 sum of £10,000 towards professorship of Anglo Saxon which was founded May 1878; author of The elements of Anglo-Saxon Grammar 1823, earliest English work of the kind; Anglo-Saxon dictionary 1838, 2 ed. 1882; Scandinavian literature 1839; A compendious dictionary of Anglo-Saxon 1848, 5 ed. 1882. d. 20 Beaumont St. Oxford 27 May 1876. Academy 3 and 10 June 1876; Times 29 May 1876, p. 10, col. 4.

346BOTFIELD, Beriah (eld. son of Beriah Botfield of Norton hall, Northamptonshire 1768–1813). b. Earl’s Ditton, Salop. 5 March 1807; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1847; sheriff of Northamptonshire 1831; M.P. for Ludlow 23 May 1840 to 23 July 1847 and 27 March 1857 to death; F.R.S. 17 Jany. 1839; F.S.A. 1839; a chevalier of order of Albert the Brave of Saxony; knight of order of Leopold of Belgium; member of Abbotsford, Bannatyne, Maitland, and Roxburgh clubs, and of Surtees Society, for all of which he edited books; set up a private printing-press at Norton hall, where he printed Journal of a tour through the Highlands of Scotland [anon.] 1830; Stemmata Botevilliana 1843; Bibliotheca Hearneiana 1848; published Notes on cathedral libraries of England 1849; Prefaces to first editions of Greek and Roman classics 1861. d. 5 Grosvenor sq. London 7 Aug. 1863. Stemmata Botevilliana (2 ed. 1858) 84–7, 156, App. 33, 479–96; G.M. xv, 645–7 (1863); Numismatic Chronicle iv, 17–18 (1864).

BOTT, Thomas. b. near Kidderminster 1829; a portrait painter at Birmingham; one of principal artists of the Royal Porcelain works Worcester 1852; gained many prizes at Worcester School of Art; obtained distinction for his work in Worcester enamel, at Paris Exhibition 1855 and London Exhibition 1862; one of his best works is now in South Kensington Museum. d. Worcester 13 Dec. 1870. Jewitt’s History of the Ceramic art in Great Britain (1883) 143–4 and 150.

BOTTRELL, William (son of Wm. Vingoe Bottrell of Raftra, St. Levan, Cornwall, farmer 1790–1876). b. Raftra 7 March 1816; learnt farming under his father; English master in the Seminary of Quebec, Canada Sep. 1847 to 1851; author of Traditions and hearthside stories of West Cornwall 1870, 2 series 1873; communicated upwards of 50 of the “Drolls” to Robert Hunt for his Popular romances of the west of England 2 vols. 1865. d. Dove st. St. Ives 27 Aug. 1881.

BOUCH, Sir Thomas (3 son of Wm. Bouch, captain in merchant service). b. Thursby, Cumberland 22 Feb. 1822; manager and engineer of Edinburgh and Northern railway 1849; made floating railways for goods trains over rivers Forth and Tay; constructed a number of remarkable bridges chiefly railway, in all of which he made use of the lattice girder; designed railway bridge over river Tay, completed 22 Sep. 1877, opened 31 May 1878, the central portion of this bridge fell into the river carrying with it an entire 347train and its load of about 70 passengers 28 Dec. 1879; designed railway bridge over river Forth begun 30 Sep. 1878, work was stopped after above accident; A.I.C.E. 3 Dec. 1850, M.I.C.E. 11 May 1858; presented with freedom of Dundee 31 May 1878; knighted at Windsor Castle 26 June 1879. d. Moffat, Dumfriesshire 30 Oct. 1880. Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxiii, 301–308 (1881); I.L.N. lxxvii, 468 (1880), portrait.

BOUCHER, Rev. John (son of Mr. Boucher of Moneyrea, near Belfast, tenant-farmer). b. 1819; ed. at Belfast academy 1837–42; Unitarian minister at Southport 1842, at Glasgow to 1848 and at the New Gravel Pit chapel Hackney, London 1848–53 when he entered at St. John’s coll. Cam. to read for orders in Church of England, B.A. 1857; one of trustees of Dr. Williams’s library: a member of the presbyterian board; published a sermon on The present religious crisis 1850. d. Chesterton near Cambridge 12 March 1878. The Inquirer 23 March 1878 p. 190.

BOUCHIER, Rev. Barton (son of Rev. Jonathan Boucher 1738–1804, V. of Epsom, Surrey). b. 1794; ed. at Balliol coll. Ox., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1827; changed his name from Boucher to Bouchier; C. of Cheam, Surrey about 1832 to 1858; R. of Fonthill Bishops, Wilts. 1858 to death; author of Manna in the house or daily expositions of the Gospels 4 vols. 1852–58; Manna in the heart or daily comments on the book of Psalms 2 vols. 1855–56; My Parish 1856, second series 1857. d. Fonthill Bishops 20 Dec. 1865.

BOUDIER, Rev. John. Educ. at Sid. Sus. coll. Cam., B.A. 1809, M.A. 1813; V. of Warwick 1815–72; hon. canon of Worcester 1852 to death; author of Plain and practical sermons 1818; Attendance on daily public worship the Christian’s duty 1854; Congregational psalmody and church choirs 1857; The two holy sacraments of the Christian church necessary to salvation 1859. d. 7 Nov. 1874 aged 88.

BOUGH, Samuel (3 child of Mr. Bough of Carlisle, shoemaker). b. Carlisle 8 Jany. 1822; executed the illustrations to Jefferson’s History of Cumberland 2 vols. 1840–2; assistant scene painter in T.R. Manchester about 1845; exhibited pictures at Manchester Institute, where Heywood gold medal was awarded him; principal scene painter at T.R. Glasgow 1848; A.R.S.A. 1856, R.S.A. 10 Feb. 1875; a collection of his works was exhibited at Glasgow Institute 1880 and another at Edinburgh 3481884. d. Edinburgh 19 Nov. 1878. Portfolio x, 114 (1878); Academy 30 Nov. 1878 and 5 July 1884.

BOUGHEY, Sir Thomas Fletcher Fenton, 3 Baronet. b. Betley, Staffs. 22 Jany. 1809; succeeded 27 June 1823; sheriff of Staffs. 1832. d. Aqualate, Newport, Staffs. 6 Oct. 1880.

BOUGHTON, Sir William Edward Rose, 10 and 2 Baronet (only son of Sir Charles Wm. Rose Boughton, 9 and 1 Baronet who d 26 Feb. 1821). b. Lower Grosvenor st. London 14 Sep. 1788; F.R.S. 5 May 1814; M.P. for Evesham 6 March 1820 to 2 June 1826. d. Downton hall near Ludlow 22 May 1856.

BOULT, Swinton. b. 1809; local agent in Liverpool for insurance offices 1831; founded Liverpool fire and life insurance company 1836 which became largest fire insurance office in the world, it was renamed in 1848 Liverpool and London insurance office and in 1864 Liverpool, London and Globe, secretary 1836–65, managing director 1865 to death; originated Liverpool Salvage committee, first combination of the kind ever introduced; devised a uniform policy for tariff offices; author of Law and practice relating to assurance, banking and other joint-stock companies 1841; Trade and partnership 1855. d. suddenly in the Aigburth road, Liverpool 8 July 1876. C. Walford’s Insurance Cyclopædia i, 353–5 (1871).

BOULTBEE, Frederick Moore. Entered navy 17 March 1811; captain 23 Nov. 1841; admiral on h.p. 30 July 1875; chief constable for Bedfordshire. d. Emery Down, Lyndhurst 23 Nov. 1876.

BOULTBEE, Rev. Thomas Pownall (eld. son of Rev. Thomas Boultbee, V. of Bidford, Warwickshire who d. 23 March 1883). b. 7 Aug. 1818; ed. at Uppingham school 1833–7, captain 1836–7; exhibitioner at St. John’s coll. Cam. 1837, 5 wrangler 1841, B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844, LLD. 1872; fellow of his college March 1842; C. of St. Mary’s Cheltenham, and then of St. Luke’s; theological tutor of Cheltenham college 1853–63; principal of London College of divinity at Kilburn 1863, and at St. John’s hall Highbury 1865 to death; preb. of St. Paul’s cathedral Oct. 1883; author of A commentary on the Thirty nine articles 1871; A history of the Church of England, pre-reformation period 1879. d. Bournemouth 30 Jany. 1884. Quiet strength, a memorial sketch of the life and works of the late Rev. T. P. Boultbee by Rev. Gordon Calthrop (1884).

349BOURCHIER, Claud Thomas. 2 Lieutenant Rifle brigade 10 April 1849, major 4 Aug. 1865 to 20 May 1868 when placed on h.p.; aide-de-camp to the Queen 30 April 1869 to 1876; V.C. 26 June 1856. d. 38 Brunswick road, Brighton 19 Nov. 1877 aged 46.

BOURCHIER, Henry. Entered navy 28 Aug. 1797, Captain 22 Aug. 1811, superintendent of quarantine establishment at Milford Jany. 1827 to 1 Oct. 1846, retired R.A. 1 Oct. 1846. d. Lille, France 14 Oct. 1852.

BOURCHIER, James Claud. Cornet 28 Dragoons 28 Sep. 1797; major 11 Dragoons 5 Nov. 1818 to 25 Sep. 1820, when placed on h.p.; colonel 3 Dragoon Guards 9 Jany. 1851 to death; L.G. 20 June 1854. d. Buxton vicarage, Norfolk 12 Feb. 1859 aged 78.

BOURDILLON, James Dewar (2 son of Rev. Thomas Bourdillon, V. of Fenstanton, Hunts. who d. 11 March 1854 aged 82). b. 1811; ed. at Ramsgate and Haileybury college; writer in Madras civil service 1829; secretary to Board of revenue 1843; third member of Board of revenue 1855; secretary to Government revenue department 1859–60 when he became an annuitant on the Fund, resigned the service 1861; wrote report of commission which reported upon system of public works in Madras presidency; author of A short account of the measures proposed by the late Colonel J. T. Smith for the restoration of the Indian exchanges by an Ex-Madras civilian 1882. d. Tunbridge Wells 21 May 1883.

BOURKE, Oliver Paget. b. 1817; Ensign 17 Foot 11 Dec. 1835, lieut. col. 7 Sep. 1855 to 10 Nov. 1856, when placed on h.p.; Exon of yeomen of the guard 17 July 1862 to Nov. 1873; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877. d. 3 Breffin terrace, Kingstown near Dublin 28 April 1880.

BOURKE, Sir Richard (only son of John Bourke of Dromsally, Ireland). b. Dublin 4 May 1777; ed. at Westminster and Ch. Ch. Ox.; ensign 1 Foot 22 Nov. 1798; captain 1 Garrison battalion 5 Dec. 1805; quartermaster general South America 1806; served in the Peninsula 1809–14; governor of eastern district of Cape of Good Hope 1825, conducted the government of the colony to Nov. 1829; governor of New South Wales 3 Dec. 1831 to 5 Dec. 1837; colonel 64 Foot 29 Nov. 1837 to death; general 11 Nov. 1851; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 26 Jany. 1835; sheriff of Limerick 1839; edited with 350Earl Fitzwilliam The correspondence of Edmund Burke 1829. d. Thornfield, Castle Connell, co. Limerick 12 Aug. 1855. R. Therry’s Reminiscences, 2 ed. (1863) 129–89.

Note.—The people of New South Wales erected a magnificent bronze statue by Westmacott to his memory in the Domain Sydney, which was unveiled 11 April 1842, this was the first statue in New South Wales.

BOURKE, Walter (eld. son of Joseph Bourke of Carrowkeel, co. Mayo who d. 1820). b. 1808; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1824; called to Irish bar 1827; Q.C. 7 Feb. 1849. d. Carrowkeel 26 Dec. 1870.

BOURKE, Walter McWilliam (2 son of Isidore Bourke of Curraghleagh Claremorris, co. Mayo, a crown solicitor for Ireland who d. 1866). b. 1838; ed. at Stonyhurst and Clongowes Wood colleges and Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1859, M.A. 1863; called to Irish bar 1858, practised in Dublin and then in high court at Calcutta; purchased Rahassane park, co. Galway 1880; contributed to Dublin literary magazines; published a volume of Indian law reports; assassinated at Castle Taylor near Ardrahan, co. Galway 8 June 1882. Irish law times xvi, 298 (1882).

BOURNE, Hugh (son of Joseph Bourne of Fordhays farm in parish of Stoke-upon-Trent, farmer). b. Fordhays farm 3 April 1772; a carpenter and builder at Bemersley, Staffs.; joined Wesleyan methodists June 1799; built a chapel at Harrisehead 1802; held a camp meeting on the mountain at Mowcop near Harrisehead 31 May 1807, first of many held in Staffordshire; expelled from Wesleyan Methodist Society 27 June 1808; formed first class of a new community at Standley near Bemersley 14 March 1810, first general meeting was held at Tunstall 26 July 1811, name Primitive Methodist was finally adopted 13 Feb. 1812, first annual conference was held at Hull May 1820, and a deed poll of the Primitive Methodist was enrolled in Court of Chancery 10 Feb. 1830; purchased land and built at Tunstall their first chapel 1811; travelled in United States 1844–6; author of Remarks on the ministery of women 1808; History of the Primitive Methodist 1823; A treatise on Baptism 1823; edited The Primitive Methodist Magazine 1824 to about 1844. d. Bemersley 11 Oct. 1852. bur. at Englesea Brook, Cheshire. J. Walford’s Memoirs of H. Bourne 1855, portrait; J. Petty’s Primitive Methodist connexion 1864, portrait; Simpson’s Recollections of H. Bourne 1859.

351BOURNE, James. b. Dalby near Spilsby, Lincolnshire 1773; teacher of drawing in London; made numerous sketches in Cumberland and in Devon and Cornwall; Huntingtonian minister at Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire May 1845 to death. d. Sutton Coldfield 11 June 1854 in 82 year. W. Benson’s Life and letters of J. Bourne 1875, portrait.

BOURNE, James (brother of Hugh Bourne). b. Feb. 1781; joined Wesleyan Methodists 1799; co-operated with his brother in establishment of Camp meetings 1807; the first general book steward of Primitive Methodist connexion 1820; chairman at the annual conferences many times. d. Bemersley, Staffs. Jany. 1860. J. Petty’s History of Primitive Methodist connexion, (new ed. 1864).

BOURNE, Sir James, 1 Baronet (2 son of Peter Bourne of Hackinsall, Lancs. 1783–1846). b. 8 Oct. 1812; ed. at Shrewsbury; lieut. col. commandant royal Lancashire artillery 13 April 1863 to 27 July 1881, hon. col. 27 July 1881 to death; M.P. for Evesham 12 July 1865 to 24 March 1880; created baronet 10 May 1880; C.B. 24 May 1881. d. Heathfield house, Wavertree near Liverpool 14 March 1882.

BOURNE, Sir James Dyson, 2 Baronet (eld. child of the preceding). b. 29 July 1842; cornet 5 Dragoon guards 21 Dec. 1860, lieut. col. 1 July 1881 to 1883. d. Brook st. Grosvenor sq. London 11 Nov. 1883.

BOURNE, Stephen. Edited the World newspaper which was incorporated with the Patriot 1831; an active promoter of the Protestant Society, of the Ecclesiastical Knowledge Society, and of the Test and Corporation agitation; stipendiary magistrate in Jamaica; registrar of Berbice; a cotton grower in Jamaica. d. Brixton, London 29 March 1868 aged 76.

BOUSFIELD, Nathaniel George Philips. b. Dublin 1829; M.P. for Bath 4 Feb. 1874 to 24 March 1880. d. Grosvenor place, London 21 May 1883.

BOUTELL, Rev. Charles (son of Rev. Charles Boutell, P.C. of Repps, Norfolk who d. 26 July 1855 in 84 year). b. St. Mary Pulham, Norfolk 1 Aug. 1812; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1834, incorp. at Trin. coll. Ox. 1836, M.A. 1836; R. of Downham Market, Norfolk 1847–50; V. of Wiggenhall, St. Mary, Norfolk 1847–55; Reader at St. Luke’s Lower Norwood, Surrey 1860–67; assistant minister at St. Stephen’s Portland town London 1872–73; one of founders of London 352and Middlesex Archæological society 14 Dec. 1855, sec. 23 July 1857 to 27 Nov. 1857; sec. of St. Alban’s Architectural Society; author of Monumental brasses and slabs of the Middle ages 1847; A manual of British Archæology 1858; A manual of heraldry historical and popular 1863, 3 ed. 1864; English heraldry, illustrated 1867, 4 ed. 1879; A Bible Dictionary 1871, republished as Haydn’s Bible Dictionary 1879. d. 18 Portsdown road, London 31 July 1877. London and Middlesex Arch. Soc. Trans. i, 209, 316.

BOUTFLOWER, Rev. Henry Crewe (son of John Johnson Boutflower of Salford, Manchester, surgeon). b. Salford 25 Oct. 1796; ed. at Manchester school 1807–15, and St. John’s coll. Cam., Hulsean theological prizeman 1816, B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; C. of Elmdon near Birmingham 15 April 1821; head master of Bury sch. Lancs. 6 May 1823 to 1857; P.C. of St. John’s Bury 1832–57; R. of Elmdon 1857 to death; author of The doctrine of atonement is agreeable to reason 1817, and of sermons; collected materials for a history of Bury. d. West Felton vicarage, Salop 4 June 1863. Admission register of Manchester school iii, 13–15 (1874).

BOUTFLOWER, Venerable Samuel Peach (eld. son of Charles Boutflower of Colchester, surgeon). b. 1815; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., scholar, 22 wrangler 1838, B.A. 1838, M.A. 1841; P.C. of Brathay 1839–42 and 1856–67; C. of Seaforth 1842–56; V. of St. Lawrence Appleby 1867 to death; archdeacon and canon res. of Carlisle 1867 to death. d. The Abbey, Carlisle 22 Dec. 1882.

BOUVERIE, Rev. Edward (2 son of hon. Bartholomew Bouverie 1753–1835, M.P. for Downton). b. 15 Aug. 1783; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807; V. of Coleshill, Berks. 1808 to death; chaplain in ord. to the Sovereign 1819 to death; preb. of Preston in Sarum cathedral 16 Feb. 1826 to death. d. Coleshill vicarage 22 July 1874.

BOUVERIE, Everard William (eld. son of Edward Bouverie of Delapré abbey near Northampton 1767–1858). b. 13 Oct. 1789; ed. at Harrow and St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1812, M.A. 1816; cornet Royal horse guards 2 April 1812, lieut. col. 16 Sep. 1845 to Sep. 1853 when placed on h.p.; colonel 15 Hussars 17 July 1859 to death; general 9 April 1868; author of The horse-buyer’s guide, shewing the tricks of dealers 1853. d. Delapré abbey 18 Nov. 1871. Annual Register (1862) 149–53.

353BOUVERIE, Rev. Frederick William Bryon. Educ. at College Bourbon, Paris 1844; C. of St. Peter Port. Guernsey 1850–57; Incumb. of St. Paul, Aberdeen 1858–69; Incumb. of French Anglican church of St. John, Bloomsbury st. London 1869 to death; author of Force et Faiblesse 1859; Life and its lessons, a tale 1859; Six short stories for short people 1861, new ed. 1868; Herbert Lovell 1862. d. 1884.

BOUVERIE, Sir Henry Frederick (youngest son of Edward Bouverie 1738–1810, M.P. for New Sarum). b. 11 July 1783; ed. at Eton; ensign 2 Foot Guards 23 Oct. 1799, major 18 Jany. 1820 to 27 May 1825; assistant adjutant general to 4 division of the army 1810; governor of Malta 1 Oct. 1836 to 14 June 1843; L.G. 28 June 1838; col. of 1 West India regiment 13 May 1842 and of 97 Foot 21 Nov. 1843 to death; K.C.B. 5 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 6 April 1852, G.C.M.G. 28 Sep. 1836. d. Woolbeding house near Midhurst, Sussex 14 Nov. 1852.

BOUVERIE, Venerable William Arundell (brother of Rev. Edward Bouverie). b. 6 Feb. 1797; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1817, M.A. 1820, B.D. 1829; fellow of Merton coll.; R. of West Tytherley, Hants. 1829–39; R. of Denton, Norfolk 1839 to death; hon. canon of Norwich 1847 to death; archdeacon of Norfolk 20 Dec. 1850 to 1869. d. Denton rectory 23 Sep. 1877.

BOUVIER, Augustus Jules (son of Jules Bouvier of London, painter 1800–67). Painter of figure subjects in water colours in London; member of New Society of Painters in water colours 1853; exhibited 55 pictures at Suffolk st. gallery 1845–65. d. 56 Alexandra road, St. John’s Wood, London 20 Jany. 1881 aged 54.

BOVILL, George Hinton (son of Benjamin Bovill of Durnsford lodge, Wimbledon who d. 1864). b. London 1821; member of firm of Swayne and Co. of Millwall, makers of railway wheels and machinery; introduced important improvements in grinding of corn by use of an air blast and exhaust between the millstones 1849; connected with Millwall iron works; constructed the iron forts at Plymouth; took out a patent dated 5 June 1849 for ‘Improvements in the manufacture of flour,’ there was a very long litigation about this patent which lasted 12 years 1856–68 and cost £60,000, the judges not being able to settle meaning of the words “my invention relates only to sucking away the 354plenum of dusty air forced through the stones.” d. Malvern 9 May 1868. W. W. Wynne’s The Bovill patent 1873.

BOVILL, Sir William (brother of the preceding). b. Allhallows, Barking, London 26 May 1814; articled in office of Willis and Co. solicitors Tokenhouse yard; pupil of Wm. Fry Channell; practised as special pleader; barrister M.T. 15 Jany. 1841, bencher 1855, treasurer 1866; went the Home circuit; largely engaged in commercial cases in which he was unsurpassed; Q.C. 1855; M.P. for Guildford 28 March 1857 to 29 Nov. 1866; Petition of right act 23 and 24 Vict. cap. 34 and Partnership law amendment act 28 and 29 Vict. cap. 86 are known as Bovill’s acts; solicitor general 10 July 1866; knighted at Osborne 26 July 1866; serjeant at law 29 Nov. 1866; lord chief justice of Court of Common Pleas 29 Nov. 1866 to death; P.C. 28 Dec. 1866; F.R.S. 9 May 1867; hon. D.C.L. Ox. 1870; tried ejectment case of Tichborne v. Lushington 11 May 1871 to 6 March 1872 when he ordered the plaintiff to be indicted for perjury; he is one of the three clerks drawn by John Oxenford in his first dramatic piece My fellow clerks 1835. d. Combe house, near Kingston on Thames 1 Nov. 1873. I.L.N. xlix, 569 (1866), portrait, lxiii, 447, 614 (1873).

BOVILL, William John (only son of Wm. Bovill of Upper Tooting, Surrey, solicitor.) b. Dec. 1810; solicitor at Upper Tooting 1833–5 and at 24 Essex st. Strand, London 1835–46; barrister M.T. 29 Jany. 1847; admitted ad eundem at L.I. 31 Jany. 1850; Q.C. 8 Feb. 1872; bencher of L.I. 8 May 1872. d. Bath 3 March 1882.

BOWATER, Sir Edward (only son of Edward Bowater of Hampton Court Middlesex, admiral R.N.) b. St. James’s palace, London 13 July 1787; ed. at Harrow; ensign 3 Foot Guards 31 March 1804, major 12 Oct. 1826 to 10 Jany. 1837; served in Peninsula and at Waterloo; equerry to William iv, 1831–37; equerry to Prince Albert 1840–46; groom in waiting in ordinary to the Queen 3 March 1846; colonel 49 Foot 24 April 1846 to death; general 20 June 1854, K.C.H. 1837. d. Cannes, France 14 Dec. 1861. Miscellanea geneal. et herald. n.s. ii, 177–9; Martin’s Life of the Prince Consort v, 405, 417.

BOWDEN, Hannah (dau. of John Finch Marsh of Croydon). b. London 1823; wrote poetry in The Peace Advocate. (m. Sep. 1857 James Bowden, recording clerk of Society of 355Friends). d. Croydon 3 July 1859. Poetical remains of Hannah Bowden edited by her sister [Priscilla Marsh] 1860.

BOWDEN, Rev. John Edward (eld. son of John Wm. Bowden, of Wimbledon, Surrey who d. 15 Sep. 1844 aged 46). b. London 24 April 1829; ed. at Eton 1841–6 and Trin. coll. Ox.; joined Church of Rome 1848; novice at Oratory of St. Wilfrid’s Cotton hall, Staffs. 2 Feb. 1849, went to King Wm. st. Strand, London with the other Fathers May 1849; ordained priest 1852; edited Notes on doctrinal and spiritual subjects by F. W. Faber 2 vols. 1866; The spiritual works of Louis of Blois 1871; author of The life and letters of Frederick Wm. Faber 1869. d. the Oratory, Brompton, London 14 Dec. 1874.

BOWDICH, Edward Hope Smith (son of Thomas Edward Bowdich, African traveller 1791–1824). b. 16 Feb. 1822; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school 1829–38; entered Bombay army 1838; served in Persian campaign under Sir James Outram 1856–7, and Indian mutiny 1857–9; commandant 7 Bombay N.I. 1 Jany. 1862 to 31 Dec. 1874 when he retired on full pay; M.G. 23 Jany. 1875. d. 58 Harley st. London 5 Feb. 1882.

BOWDLER, Henry. Entered Madras army 1797; col. 21 N.I. 24 Dec. 1835 to death; M.G. 28 June 1838. d. Dublin 6 June 1851.

BOWDLER, Rev. Thomas (eld. son of John Bowdler of Eltham, Kent 1746–1823). b. 13 March 1780; ed. at Hyde Abbey sch. near Winchester and St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1803, M.A. 1806; C. of Leyton, Essex 1803–6; Incumbent of Hopton-Wafers, Salop 1806, of Ash, Kent 1809, of Ridley, Kent 1809, of Addington, Kent to 1832, and of St. Bartholomews, Sydenham 1832–43; sec. to Incorporated Church building society 1846 to death; preb. of St. Paul’s 7 Dec. 1849 to death; author of A pastor’s address to his flock 1818, 4 ed. 1822; Sermons on the nature, offices and character of Jesus Christ 2 vols. 1818–20; Quid Romæ faciam 1841, 2 ed. 1842; Sermons on the privileges, responsibilities and duties of members of the Gospel covenant 2 vols. 1845–46. d. 2 Onslow sq. Brompton, London 11 Nov. 1856. An account of a memorial to the late Rev. T. Bowdler with memoir 1858; G.M. ii, 241–2 (1857).

BOWEN, Francis Nathaniel Burton (son of Edward Bowen, chief justice of Canada). b. Canada 1822; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.B. 1854; assistant surgeon Coldstream Guards 35622 Dec. 1854 to 2 Dec. 1859 when placed on h.p.; surgeon in Military school Dublin; practised in London 1862 to death; assisted Spencer Wells in his private practice; published some interesting papers 1866 on Cancer of the Peritoneum and Fatty degeneration of the walls of Ovarian Cysts. d. 28 Oct. 1868.

BOWEN, Herbert. Entered Bengal army 1795; lieut. col. commandant 51 N.I. 28 Nov. 1826; col. 34 N.I. 5 Jany. 1829 to 2 April 1834; col. 55 N.I. 2 April 1834 to 1842 and col. 19 N.I. 1842 to death; M.G. 28 June 1838; C.B. 20 July 1838. d. Montagu sq. London 16 Oct. 1851 aged 70.

BOWEN, Rev. Jeremiah. Educ. at All Souls’ coll. Ox., B.A. 1825; R. of West Lynn, Norfolk 1830–63; R. of Walton-Lewes, Norfolk 24 Feb. 1863 to death; author of The Resurrection defended against the objections of the Mental improvement society 1838; The war abroad and the Church at home 1854; Starlight and other poems by Walton Lewes pseud. 1869; St. Cross and other poems by Walton Lewes 1872. d. 1875.

BOWEN, Right Rev. John (son of Thomas Bowen, captain 85 Foot who d. 1844.) b. Court near Fishguard, Pembrokeshire 21 Nov. 1815; ed. at Haverfordwest; went to Canada April 1835; farmed land at Dunville on shores of Lake Erie 1835–42; entered at Trin. coll. Dublin Jany. 1843, B.A. 1847, LL.B. and LLD. 1857; ordained deacon in Ripon Cathedral 20 Sep. 1846, and priest 19 Sep. 1847; C. of Knaresborough 1848–50; R. of Orton Longueville, Hunts. 1853–57; Bishop of Sierra Leone 10 Aug. 1857 to death; consecrated at Lambeth 21 Sep. 1857; sailed for his diocese 26 Nov. 1857. d. Freetown, Sierra Leone 28 May 1859. Memorials of John Bowen compiled from his letters and journals by his sister 1862; G. M. vii, 187–8 (1859).

BOWER, George Henry Kerr. b. 1817; entered navy March 1828; commanded the Osborne yacht 1856–64; master attendant Gosport victualling yard 1 Dec. 1864 to 1869; retired captain 15 June 1870; knight of the Legion of Honour; C.B. 13 March 1867; author of Drops from the ocean, or life under the Pennant 1879. d. York crescent Lower Norwood 26 Aug. 1883.

BOWER, Harold Elyott. Paris correspondent of Morning Post 1848 to 1852 and of Morning Advertiser 1852 to death; killed Saville Morton, Paris correspondent of Morning Advertiser by stabbing him in Paris 3571 Oct. 1852, tried in Paris for murder 27 Dec. 1852 when acquitted. d. 142 Rue de la Tour, Passy, Paris 8 Dec. 1884 aged 69. Annual Register (1852) 402–407.

BOWER, Joshua. Crown and bottle glass manufacturer at Hunslet near Leeds; one of the largest toll farmers in England, having at one time nearly all turnpikes between Leeds and London besides numerous others; took a conspicuous part in most of the political movements of his time; contested Leeds 17 Feb. 1834; a member of Leeds town council 1835 to death, and alderman Nov. 1844 to death; proprietor of extensive coal mines. d. Hillidge house Hunslet 7 Sep. 1855 aged 82.

BOWERBANK, James Scott (son of Edward Bowerbank of Bishopsgate, London, rectifying distiller). b. Bishopsgate July 1797; rectifying distiller in Bishopsgate 1817–47; a founder of London Clay Club 1836, Microscopical Society 1839, Ray Society 1844 and Palæontographical Society 1847; F.R.S. 17 Nov. 1842; built a museum at Highbury 1846; his magnificent natural history collection was sold to British Museum 1864; author of A history of the fossil fruits and seeds of the London clay 1840; A monograph of the British Spongiadæ 3 vols. 1864, and of 45 papers in scientific periodicals. d. 2 East Ascent, St. Leonards-on-Sea 9 March 1877. Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xxxviii, 144–7 (1878).

BOWERS. Charles Robert. Cornet 13 Dragoons 18 Jany. 1810; captain 23 Foot 30 Dec. 1818 to 5 April 1820 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 10 March 1866. d. Little Tew Lodge, Oxfordshire 9 Oct. 1870.

BOWERS, Very Rev. George Hull (son of Francis Bowers). b. Staffordshire 1794; ed. at Pembroke gr. sch. and Clare coll. Cam., B.A. 1819, B.D. 1829, D.D. 1849; P.C. of Elstow Beds. 1819–32; select preacher to Univ. of Cam. 1830; R. of St. Paul’s Covent Garden, London 1831–47; joint founder with Rev. Charles Eaton Plater of Marlborough college 1843; dean of Manchester 19 June 1847 to 24 Sep. 1872; author of Sermons preached before the University of Cambridge 1830; A scheme for the foundation of schools for the sons of clergymen and others 1842; Pew rents injurious to the Church 1865. d. Leamington 27 Dec. 1872 in 79 year. R. Parkinson’s Old church clock 5 ed. 1880 p. lxxiv.

BOWERS, Rev. John. b. Chester 19 July 1796; Wesleyan minister in London 1834–40; a chief founder of Theological college at 358Didsbury near Manchester 1842, and governor 1843–64: Pres. of Wesleyan conference 1858–59. d. Southport 30 May 1866. Wesl. Meth. Mag. lxxxix, pt. 2, 942–3 (1866); J. Evan’s Lancashire authors (1850) 38–42.

BOWERYEM, George. b. England; went to United States 1854; a correspondent of The Tribune at Charleston and subsequently of Philadelphia Press with the army of the Potomac; published melodies of considerable merit; drowned near Newport News 12 July 1864 aged about 33.

BOWES, James Stuart. Edited Galignani’s Messenger in Paris 40 years; wrote Deeds of dreadful note and many other dramatic pieces for the London stage under pseudonym of Alfred Dubois. d. Paris 24 May 1864 aged 75.

BOWES, John (son of John Bowes of Swineside Coverdale, parish of Coverham, Yorkshire 1779–1853). b. Swineside 12 June 1804; joined Wesleyan Methodists 1817, and Primitive Methodists Dec. 1821; went from town to town preaching in the open air; pastor of the first church of Christian Mission in Dundee 20 April 1831; one of English representatives at Brussels peace congress 20–21 Sep. 1848; published two monthly magazines entitled The Christian Magazine and The truth promoter; author of Treatise on Christian Union 1835; The New Testament translated from the purest Greek 1870, and 220 Gospel and other tracts to instruct Christians. d. Westfield house, Dundee 23 Sep. 1874. The autobiography or history of the life of John Bowes 1872, portrait.

BOWES, John (natural son of John Bowes-Lyon 10 Earl of Strathmore 1769–1820). b. 19 July 1811; ed. at Eton; M.P. for South Durham 24 Dec. 1832 to 23 July 1847; began racing 1834, won Derby with Mundig 1835, gaining £19,000 besides stakes of £6,000, won Two thousand guineas with Meteor 1842, same race and Derby with Cotherstone 1843, Derby with Daniel O’Rourke 1852, and Two thousand guineas Derby and St. Leger with West Australian 1853, won Ascot cup with same horse 1854; the luckiest man on the turf and one of best judges of yearlings; oldest member of Jockey club; sheriff of Durham 1854; erected at Barnard Castle, Durham in memory of his first wife the “Josephine and John Bowes museum and park” at cost of £80,000 and gave art treasures to the museum, (m. (1) 1872 Josephine Benoite, Countess of Montalbo who d. 1874, m. (2) 1877 Alphonsina Marie de St. Amand, 359Comtesse de Courten of the Valais, Switzerland). d. Streatlam Castle near Gateshead 9 Oct. 1885. Sporting Review xl, 114–8 (1858); Illust. sp. and dr. news xxiv, 107, 114 (1885).

BOWES, Robert Aitken (son of John Bowes 1804–74). Editor of the Bolton Guardian. d. 7 Nov. 1879 aged 42.

BOWIE, James, b. London; entered service of Royal gardens, Kew 1810; botanical collector to the gardens 1814; collected plants and seeds in Brazil 1815–17, and in South Africa 1817–23; enriched gardens of Europe with greater variety of succulent plants than had ever been discovered by any traveller; gardener to Baron Ludwig of Ludwigsberg, Cape of Good Hope about 1829–41; made journeys into interior of South Africa to collect plants for sale. d. 1853.

BOWLBY, Thomas William (eld. child of Thomas Bowlby, captain R.A.) b. Gibraltar about 1817; articled to Russell Bowlby of Sunderland solicitor; member of firm of Lawrence, Crowdy and Bowlby solicitors 25 Old Fish st. Doctors Commons London 1846–54; arranged performances abroad for L. G. Jullien the musician; special correspondent of Times at Berlin 1848 and in China 1860 to death; shipwrecked in the Malabar at Point de Galle 22 May 1860; went with Admiral Hope to Tang-chow Aug. 1860; captured by Tartar general Sanko-lin-sin 18 Sep. 1860; died from effects of torture inflicted by Chinese, 22 Sep. 1860. bur. in Russian cemetery outside Antin gate of Pekin 17 Oct. Boulger’s History of China iii, 499–521 (1884); I.L.N. xxxvii, 615–6 (1860), portrait.

BOWLER, Thomas William b. in the Vale of Aylesbury; assistant astronomer under Sir T. Maclear at Cape Town 1833–7; an artist and teacher of drawing at Cape Town; painted a panorama of the district; made a number of drawings in Mauritius 1866; published Four views of Cape Town 1844; South African sketches 1854; The Kafir wars a series of 20 views 1865. d. England 24 Oct. 1869. Art Journal ix, 107 (1870).

BOWLES, Sir George (2 son of Wm. Bowles of Heale house, Wilts.) b. Heale house 1787; Ensign Coldstream Guards 20 Dec. 1804, major 31 Dec. 1839 to 30 May 1843 when placed on h.p.; served in the Peninsula 1808–14, in Flanders and France 1814–18, in the West Indies 1820–25, and in Canada 1837–43; 360commanded the troops in Lower Canada during rebellion of 1838; comptroller of household of Viceroy of Ireland 1843–5; master of the Queen’s household 4 April 1845 to July 1851; lieutenant of Tower of London 16 July 1851 to death; K.C.B. 22 July 1851, G.C.B. 24 May 1873; col. of 1 West India regiment 9 Sep. 1855 to death; general 9 Nov. 1862. d. 9 Berkeley St. Piccadilly London 24 May 1876. I.L.N. lxviii, 551 (1876), lxix, 255.

BOWLES, Rev. Henry Matthew John. Educ. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1846, M.A. 1851, M.A. Ox. 1856; C. of St. John Cheltenham 1851–54; R. of Framilode Gloucs. 21 Sep. 1854 to 1867; R. of St. Aldate’s Gloucester 15 April 1867 to death; author of Prayers for the dead 1873; Fasting communion 1873; Lawlessness 1874. d. Cathedral house, College gardens, Gloucester 6 Jany. 1884.

BOWLES, Rev. Joseph. Educ. at Magd. hall Ox., B.A. 1835, M.A. 1836, LLD. 1837, D.D. 1841; R. of Woodstock 1841–7; V. of Stanton-Lacey, Shropshire 1847 to death; author of Elegy on the death of the Princess Charlotte; Monody on the death of Sir John Throckmorton; Letters in vindication of the appointment of the Bishop of Hereford. d. 1879.

BOWLES, Sir William (eld. son of Wm. Bowles of Heale house, Wilts.) b. Heale house 1780; entered navy 9 Sep. 1796, captain 13 Oct. 1807; commander in chief on South American station 1816–20; comptroller general of the Coastguard July 1822 to Nov. 1841; a lord of the Admiralty 13 May 1844 to 13 July 1846; M.P. for Launceston 20 May 1844 to 1 July 1852; admiral 28 Nov. 1857; commander in chief at Portsmouth 1 March 1859 to 1 March 1860; admiral of the fleet 15 Jany. 1869 to death; C.B. 18 April 1839, K.C.B. 10 Nov. 1862, F.R.G.S. 1833; author of Thoughts on national defence; Considerations on the late naval war 1856. d. 8 Hill st. Berkeley sq. London 2 July 1869. Journal of Royal Geog. Soc. xl, pp. cxl-cxlii, (1870).

BOWLEY, Robert Kanzow (son of Mr. Bowley of Charing Cross, London, bootmaker). b. 13 May 1813; brought up to the bootmaking business; conductor of Benevolent society of musical amateurs; organist of an independent chapel near Leicester sq. about 1834; joined the Sacred harmonic society 1834, librarian 1837–54, treasurer 1854–70: originated in 1856 plan of the gigantic Handel festivals which have been held every three years at 361Crystal Palace since 1857; general manager of Crystal Palace 8 April 1858 to death; committed suicide by jumping into the Thames from a steamboat at Greenwich 25 Aug. 1870.

BOWLY, Samuel (son of Mr. Bowly of Bibury, Gloucs., miller). b. Cirencester 23 March 1802; a cheese factor at Gloucester 1829; chairman of many local companies; took a prominent part in agitation against the corn laws and against slavery; a founder of British and ragged schools in Gloucester; formed a teetotal society at Gloucester 30 Dec. 1835; pres. of National temperance league. d. Gloucester 23 March 1884. Sessions’s Life of S. Bowly 1884, portrait; The Public Good, Sep. and Oct. 1851, portrait.

BOWMAN, Eddowes (eld. son of John Eddowes Bowman of Wrexham, bank manager 1785–1841). b. Nantwich 12 Nov. 1810; ed. at Hazelwood near Birmingham; sub-manager of Varteg iron works near Pontypool about 1835–40; studied in Univ. of Glasgow and at Berlin; professor of classical literature and history in Manchester New College 1846 to 1853 when college was removed to London as a purely theological institution; F.R.A.S. 1864; built an observatory at Manchester; author of Arguments against the divine authority of the Sabbath considered and shown to be inconclusive 1842; On the Roman governors of Syria at the time of the birth of Christ 1855 and of many papers in the Christian Reformer. d. Victoria park, Manchester 10 July 1869. Unitarian Herald 16 July 1869; Hall’s History of Nantwich (1883) 505.

BOWMAN, Henrietta (dau. of Rev. John Bowman, P.C. of Burscough near Ormskirk Lancs.) b. Cumberland 1838; taught Bible classes for young ladies at Clifton and Southport; author of Life, its duty and discipline 1859; Christian daily life 1860, new ed. 1877; Our village girls 1863; Thoughts for workers and sufferers 1868; The autobiography of Elsie Ellis 1869, in which she describes her own childhood and girlhood; Lily Hope and her friends 1885. d. Southport 13 Feb. 1872. Songs amid the shadows by the late Hetty Bowman 2 ed. 1872; Woman’s Work in the great harvest field i, 137–40 (1872).

BOWMAN, John Eddowes (brother of Eddowes Bowman 1810–69). b. Welchpool 7 July 1819; ed. at King’s college London; demonstrator of chemistry at the college 1845 and professor of practical chemistry there 1851 to death; one of founders of Chemical society of London 1841; author of A lecture on steam 362boiler explosions 1845; An introduction to practical Chemistry 1848, 6 ed. 1871; A practical Handbook of medical chemistry 1850, 4 ed. 1862. d. 10 Feb. 1854. Chem. Soc. Journ. ix, 159 (1857).

BOWNESS, William. b. Kendal 1809; portrait and figure painter in London 1830; exhibited his ‘Keepsake’ at Royal Academy 1836 and about one picture annually until his death; exhibited 26 pictures at British Institution and 86 pictures at Suffolk st. gallery; author of Rustic studies in the Westmoreland dialect with other scraps from the sketch-book of an artist 1868. d. Charlotte st. Fitzroy sq. London 27 Dec. 1867.

BOWRING, Algernon Charles. b. Hackney, London 19 March 1828; ed. at London Univ. and Trin. coll. Cam.; joined Church of Rome 1850; entered Society of Jesus at Hodder 24 March 1850; professor of rhetoric at Stonyhurst college 1854; studied theology at St. Beuno’s college and then in the Roman college at Rome 1855 to death. d. the Roman College 18 Nov. 1857.

BOWRING, Sir John (eld. son of Charles Bowring of Larkbear Devon, serge manufacturer). b. Exeter 17 Oct. 1792; set up in business in London 1815; travelled abroad 1819–20; joint editor of Westminster Review 1824 and then sole editor; examined and reported on public accounts of Holland 1828 and France 1831; LLD. Univ. of Groningen 31 Jany. 1829; sec. to Commission for inspecting accounts of United Kingdom 1831; contested Blackburn 1832, M.P. for Kilmarnock 1835–37 and for Bolton 1841–49; British consul at Canton 10 Jany. 1849; plenipotentiary to China 24 Dec. 1853 to 17 April 1857; governor of Hong Kong 10 Jany. 1854; sent on special mission to Siam 12 March 1855; retired on a superannuation allowance 17 July 1859; knighted at Buckingham Palace 16 Feb. 1854; F.R.S. 5 June 1856; one of greatest linguists on record; author of Specimens of the Russian poets translated 1820; Minor morals for young people illustrated in tales and travels 2 vols. 1834–35; The kingdom and people of Siam 2 vols. 1857; The Oak, original tales and sketches 1869 and many other books. d. Claremont near Exeter 23 Nov. 1872. Bowring, Cobden and China a memoir by L. Moor 1857; Autobiographical recollections of Sir J. Bowring with a brief memoir by L. B. Bowring 1877; Sir J. Bowring’s The kingdom and people of Siam ii, 248–340 (1857), portrait; Illustrated Review i, 161–65, portrait; Dict. of Nat. Biog. vi, 76–80 (1886).

363BOWSTEAD, Rev. John. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1832, M.A. 1835; V. of Messingham, Lincs. 1840–62; R. of St. Olave’s Southwark, London 1862 to death; author of The village wake 1846; Practical sermons 2 vols. 1856; Regeneration not salvation, a letter to Mr. Spurgeon 1864. d. 29 Jany. 1875 aged 64.

BOWYER, Cornelius. Entered Bengal army 1799, lieut. col. 9 July 1825, retired 20 May 1829; C.B. 26 Dec. 1826. d. Ostend 12 Feb. 1855.

BOWYER, Sir George, 6 and 2 Baronet. b. Radley house near Abingdon, Berkshire March 1783; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1804, M.A. 1807; succeeded his father 6 Dec. 1799; M.P. for Malmesbury 8 May 1807 to Jany. 1810, for Abingdon 24 June 1811 to 10 June 1818; author of The resolution of the House of Commons in the last session of the late Parliament relative to the adjustment of the claims of the Roman Catholics considered 1813. d. Dresden 1 July 1860.

BOWYER, Sir George, 7 and 3 Baronet (eld. son of the preceding). b. Radley house 8 Oct. 1811; barrister M.T. 7 June 1839, reader 1850; hon. M.A. Ox. 1839, hon. D.C.L. 1844; contested Reading 1849; M.P. for Dundalk 1852–68, and for co. Wexford 1874–80; expelled from Reform Club by a vote of two-thirds at a general meeting 23 June 1876 for his frequent voting against Liberal party; joined Church of Rome 1850; chamberlain to Pope Pius ix; built church of St. John of Jerusalem Great Ormond st. Bloomsbury, London; a knight of Malta; knight grand cross of order of St. Gregory the Great; author of A dissertation on the statutes of the cities of Italy 1838; Commentaries on the modern civil law 1848; Lombardy, the Pope and Austria 1848; Commentaries on universal public law 1854; Friends of Ireland in council—Sir George Bowyer, W. H. Wilberforce, J. P. Hennessey 1864; Introduction to the study and use of the civil law 1874; found dead in his bed at 13 King’s Bench Walk Temple, London 7 June 1883. Rev. T. Mozley’s Reminiscences ii, 231–5 (1882); I.L.N. xxxvi, 548 (1860), portrait.

BOWYER, Henry George (brother of the preceding). b. 3 Jany. 1813; inspector of schools 28 Sep. 1847. d. Leamington 26 Sep. 1883.

BOWYER, James. Member of many private clubs in London such as the Blenheim, the Socials, the Watsonians’ and the Hollywoods’; a well known whist player of the very old school. d. 17 Tavistock sq. London 11 Jany. 1871 aged 72.

364BOWYER, John. b. Mitcham, Surrey 18 June 1790; a print cutter at Mitcham where he lived all his life; came out as a professional cricketer in the match Surrey against England at Lords 16–18 July 1810 where he played in many great matches till 1828; played in 6 matches of England against an eleven whose names all began with B.; played at Mitcham till 1838. d. Mitcham 3 Feb. 1880. F. Gale’s Echoes from old cricket fields (1871) 20–29; Illust. sporting and dramatic news ix, 483 (1878), portrait.

BOWYER, William Bohun. b. 1 Aug. 1789; entered navy 9 May 1803; inspecting commander in coast guard 14 Feb. 1817 to April 1828; captain 17 Feb. 1830; retired R.A. 9 July 1855. d. Southampton 8 Oct. 1859.

BOX, Thomas. b. Ardingly, Sussex 7 Feb. 1809; played cricket 1825–54, 30 seasons; first played at Lords 25 June 1832 in Sussex against England; played in 43 great matches 1851; the best wicket keeper in England; kept the Hanover Arms and Ground in Lewes road Brighton, then the Egremont hotel in Western road Brighton, then Brunswick cricket ground and hotel at Hove; ground keeper at Prince’s cricket ground London from date of formation of that club to death. d. suddenly on Prince’s cricket ground 12 July 1876. W. Denison’s Cricket (1846) 16–17; I.L.N. iii, 45 (1843), portrait.

BOXALL, Sir William (son of Thomas Boxall of Oxford, Clerk to the Collector of Excise). b. Oxford 29 June 1800; ed. at Abingdon gr. sch. and Royal Academy 1819–27; lived in Italy 1827–9; exhibited 86 pictures at R.A. 1823–80; designed several illustrations for Waverley novels; painted portraits of many literary and artistic celebrities; many of his portraits of females were engraved in art publications; A.R.A. 1851, R.A. 1863; director of National Gallery Dec. 1865 to Feb. 1874; knighted at Windsor Castle 24 March 1871. d. 14 Welbeck st. Cavendish sq. London 6 Dec. 1879. Fortnightly Review xxvii, 177–89 (1880); Waagen’s Galleries of art (1857) 196–8; I.L.N. xliii, 80, 94 (1863), portrait.

BOXER, Edward. b. Dover 1784; entered navy 1 July 1798; captain 23 June 1823; C.B. 18 Dec. 1840; agent for transports and harbour master at Quebec 24 Aug. 1843 to 5 March 1853; R.A. 5 March 1853; admiral superintendent in the Bosphorus 7 April 1854 and at Balaklava 18 Dec. 1854 to death; gazetted K.C.B. 10 July 1855. d. of cholera on Board H.M.S. Jason outside harbour of 365Balaklava 4 June 1855 in 72 year. I.L.N. xxvi, 644 (1855).

BOYCE, Rev. James. b. Ardagh, co. Longford; ed. at St. John’s coll. Fordham New York, ordained priest 1854; pastor of St. Mary’s Roman Catholic church N.Y. 1854–63 and of St. Teresa’s church 21 June 1863 to death; founded St. Teresa’s Male academy at 10 Rutgers st. N.Y. 1865 and established a convent for girls at 139 Henry st. 1872. d. New York 9 July 1876 aged 50. J. G. Shea’s Catholic churches of New York city (1878) 674–8.

BOYCE, Joseph (3 son of James Boyce of Kilcason, Ferns, co. Wexford). b. 1795; a merchant at Dublin; lord mayor of Dublin 1855; sheriff of city and county of Dublin 1865. d. 1875.

BOYD, Very Rev. Archibald (son of Archibald Boyd of Gortlee and Derry, treasurer of Donegal). b. Londonderry 1803; ed. at diocesan college Londonderry and Trin. coll. Dub., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1832, B.D. and D.D. 1868; C. and preacher in Derry Cathedral 1827–42; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Cheltenham 1842–59; hon. canon of Gloucester cath. 1857–67; P.C. of Paddington 1859–67; rural dean 1860–67; dean of Exeter 11 Nov. 1867 to death; author of Sermons on the Church 1838; Episcopacy and Presbytery 1841; The history of the Book of Common Prayer 1850; Turkey and the Turks 1853; Baptism and baptismal regeneration 1865. d. the deanery Exeter 11 July 1883. Bequeathed nearly £40,000 to societies and institutions in diocese of Exeter. A golden decade of a favoured town by Contem Ignotus (1884) 70–102.

BOYD, Benjamin (2 son of Edward Boyd of Merton hall, Wigtonshire who d. 1846). b. about 1796; a stockbroker in City of London 1824–39; went out to Sydney to organise various branches of Royal Banking Company of Australia 1840–41; speculated largely in whaling also in shipping cattle to Tasmania and New Zealand; founded Boyd Town, Twofold Bay N.S.W.; the largest squatter in Australia having in 1847 estates of his own amounting to 381,000 acres; went to California 1850; murdered by the natives at Gaudalcanar one of the islands in the Solomon Group 1851. Heads of the people i, 21 (1847), portrait; J. H. Heaton’s Australian dictionary of dates (1879) 23–4.

BOYD, Charles. Commissioner of customs in Ireland; surveyor general of customs for the United Kingdom 1840 to 1855. d. Brixton, London 7 May 1857 aged 76.

366BOYD, David. Superintending surgeon Madras army 8 Dec. 1837, surgeon genl. 19 Aug. 1846 to 1 Aug. 1850 when he retired. d. 26 Drummond place, Edin. 25 Oct. 1854 aged 61.

BOYD, Sir Harley Hugh, 5 Baronet. b. Drumawillen house, co. Antrim 2 Nov. 1853; succeeded 7 Aug. 1857. d. 2 June 1876.

BOYD, Rev. James (son of Mr. Boyd of Paisley, glover). b. Paisley 24 Dec. 1795; ed. at Paisley and Univ. of Glasgow; licensed to preach by Presbytery of Dumbarton May 1822; House Governor of Heriot’s hospital Edinburgh 1825 to 29 Aug. 1829; one of Classical masters in high sch. Edin. 19 Aug. 1829 to death; sec. to Edinburgh Society of teachers many years. d. George sq. Edinburgh 18 Aug. 1856. W. S. Dalgleish’s Memorials of the high school of Edinburgh (1857) 31, 46–7, portrait; History of Dr. Boyd’s fourth High school class with biographical sketch of Dr. Boyd by James Colston, 2 ed. 1873.

BOYD, Rev. James. Licensed by Presbytery of Edinburgh 28 June 1815; ordained 11 Feb. 1818; minister of Auchinleck 24 Nov. 1818, of Ochiltree 27 March 1833 and of Tron church Glasgow 28 March 1844 to death; D.D. Glasgow 1845. d. 27 March 1865 in 79 year. Our Scottish Clergy, (2 series 1849) 51–58.

BOYD, James. b. Drogheda, Ireland; proprietor and editor of the Panama Star and Herald 1865 to death. d. Panama 25 April 1882 aged 43.

BOYD, Sir John, 3 Baronet. b. 5 June 1786; ensign 5 Foot 8 July 1808; lieut. 1 Garrison battalion 1811–1814 when placed on h.p.; succeeded 30 May 1815. d. Boulogne 19 Jany. 1855.

BOYD, John (son of John Boyd of Belle Isle, co. Antrim). b. Rose-yard, co. Antrim 1789; M.P. for Coleraine 18 Feb. 1843 to March 1852 and 30 March 1857 to death. d. 2 Jany. 1862.

BOYD, Sir John Augustus Hugh, 4 Baronet. b. 30 July 1819; succeeded 19 Jany. 1855. d. 7 Aug. 1857.