Frederic Boase
Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H
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; wrote 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.
BORROWS, 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.
BOSANQUET, 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 to 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.
BOTFIELD, 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 train 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 1884. 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).
BOURCHIER, 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 Earl 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.
BOURNE, 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 and 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.
BOUVERIE, 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 plenum 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 Friends). d. Croydon 3 July 1859. Poetical remains of Hannah Bowden edited by her sister [Priscilla Marsh] 1860.