Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H. Frederic Boase

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СКАЧАТЬ one of the first zoologists of his time, and founder of the study of that science in India, d. 27 Dec. 1873. Memoir prefixed to Catalogue of mammals and birds of Burma by E. Blyth in Journal of Asiatic Society of Bengal extra number Aug. 1875, portrait.

      BLYTHE, David (son of Charles Blythe of Yetholm, Roxburghshire, king of the gipsies who d. 1861). b. Wooler, Northumberland 1795; king of the gipsies at Yetholm 1861 to death. d. 17 Feb. 1883. bur. in Chirnside churchyard. David Blythe the gipsy king, a character sketch by Charles Stuart, M.D. 1883, portrait; All the year round vi, 69–72 (1861).

      BLYTHE, John Dean (son of Peter Dean Blythe of Ashton-under-Lyne). b. Ashton-under-Lyne 12 April 1842; worked in a factory; reporter on a local paper; learned Latin, French and Spanish; edited a manuscript magazine circulated amongst members of a self-improvement society at Manchester; killed by accidental discharge of a revolver 5 Feb. 1869. A sketch of the life and a selection from the writings of J. D. Blythe 1870.

      BOAG, John. b. Highgate in parish of Beith, Ayrshire 7 Jany. 1775; matric. at Univ. of Glasgow 1797; joined the body of independents or congregationalists who in 1812 formed themselves into Congregational Union of Scotland; held small charges in Isle of Man and Helensburgh; pastor in village of Blackburn, Linlithgowshire; author of A popular and complete English dictionary 2 vols. 1848; The imperial lexicon of the English language 2 vols. 1853, and of a number of pamphlets on questions of the day. d. Craigton house, Linlithgowshire 15 Sep. 1863.

      BOAG, Sir Robert (son of the preceding). b. 22 Aug. 1809; alderman of Belfast; knighted at Dublin Castle 30 Jany. 1877. (m. 1834 Violet only dau. of John Stevens of Glasgow). d. Glenorchy house, Newington, Edinburgh 7 Nov. 1877.

      BOASE, Charles William (3 son of Henry Boase 1763–1827, managing partner in banking house of Ransom, Morland and Co. Pall Mall, London). b. 6 Knightsbridge, London 8 June 1804; ed. at Helston gr. sch.; entered Dundee New Bank 1821, manager 1828; cashier of Dundee Banking company 13 March 1838, manager 1840 to 20 Feb. 1864 when it was merged in Royal bank of Scotland, managed the branch to 21 Dec. 1867 when he retired on a pension; secretary and treasurer of Watt Institution Dundee 1824–36, founded the museum to which he largely contributed; received freedom of Dundee 1 Sep. 1831 for his exertions in aiding to procure it a liberal constitution; one of the trustees elected by the creditors when town of Dundee became bankrupt 1842; a member of the Catholic Apostolic or Irvingite church 1836, erected a little chapel in Bell st. Dundee which the congregation used until 30 Nov. 1867 when church in Constitution road was opened; ordained to the priesthood Oct. 1836 and to the Episcopate Aug. 1851; had charge of the Evangelistic work throughout Scotland Dec. 1867 to death; author of Tithes and Offerings 1865; A century of banking in Dundee 1867; The Elijah ministry 1868; Notes on doctrine and ecclesiastical facts 1868; Physical a part of theological science, 2 ed. 1874. d. Albury, Surrey 7 June 1872. W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities (1873) 397–99; An account of the families of Boase or Bowes privately printed (1876) 13–14.

      BOASE, George Clement (brother of the preceding). b. 127 Sloane St. Chelsea 25 Aug. 1810; ed. at Exeter gr. sch. and Queen’s coll. Cam. 1828–29; cashier of Dundee Banking company April 1840 to Feb. 1864; sub-manager of Dundee branch of Royal Bank of Scotland Feb. 1864 to 21 Dec. 1867 when he retired on a pension; a member of the Catholic Apostolic church 1836, ordained to the priesthood Oct. 1836, had charge of the church at Brighton 1868 to death; author of To husbands, fathers and brothers specially those of the labouring classes being a warning against prevailing delusions by a Brother [G. C. Boase] 1848; The restoration of Apostles 1867; Thoughts and memories in verse by G. C. B[oase] 1876. d. Fairlie house, Bridge of Allan near Stirling 23 July 1880. An account of the families of Boase 15–16.

      BOASE, Henry Samuel (brother of the preceding). b. 6 Knightsbridge, London 2 Sep. 1799; ed. at Tiverton gr. sch.; studied chemistry in Dublin 1815–17 and medicine in Univ. of Edin. 1817–21, M.D. 1821; sec. to Royal Geological Society of Cornwall at Penzance 1822 to 1829; collected from every part of Cornwall specimens of the rocks 1829–31 which were deposited in Geological Museum at Penzance; a partner in the Penzance Union Bank 1823 to April 1838 when bank was dissolved; lived in Burton crescent, London 1837–38; F.R.S. 4 May 1837; managing partner in firm of Turnbull Brothers of the Claverhouse Bleachfield, Dundee June 1838, this firm became Boase & Co.; took out a patent for ‘improvements in the process of drying organic substances’ 17 July 1855; author of A treatise on primary geology 1834; The philosophy of nature 1860; An essay on human nature 1865; The second Adam, the seed of the woman. Anon. 1876; A few words on evolution and creation 1883; wrote a minute geological account of each parish in The parochial history of Cornwall by D. Gilbert 4 vols. 1837. d. 5 Magdalen place, Dundee 5 May 1883. Dict. of Nat. Biog. v, 282–3 (1886); An account of the families of Boase 8–10.

      BOATE, Edward Wellington (eld. son of George Boate of Waterford). Edited the Waterford Chronicle and Wexford Guardian; a reporter for the Times in the House of Commons; went to New York; worked on the Irish American, Evening Express, and other journals; joined the 42nd New York Volunteers 1863; taken prisoner at battle of Bristo station and sent to Belle Island; comr. and chairman of delegation of 95,000 men to negotiate with Abraham Lincoln for an exchange of prisoners; a reporter on the Sunday Mercury to Sep. 1871. d. King’s county hospital, Flatbush, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia 4 Oct. 1871 aged 49.

      BOAZ, Thomas (eld. son of Richard Boaz of Scarborough, ship-carpenter). b. Scarborough 10 Aug. 1806; studied at Theological seminary Newport Pagnel 1829–33; ordained at Manchester 18 June 1834; Congregational minister of Union chapel Calcutta Dec. 1834 to Dec. 1858; LLD. King’s college Aberdeen 1849; sole editor and proprietor of Calcutta Christian Advocate, May 1839 to 1853; one of editors of Calcutta Christian Observer 1835–47. d. 6 Priory grove, West Brompton, London 13 Oct. 1861. The Mission pastor, memorials of Rev. T. Boaz by his widow (1862), portrait.

      BOCHSA, Robert Nicolas Charles. b. Montmédi, France 9 Aug. 1789; harpist to Emperor Napoleon 1813; may fairly be said to have revolutionised harp playing; fled to London having been detected in extensive forgeries 1817; tried in his absence and condemned to 12 years imprisonment; joint manager with Sir G. Smart of the Lent Oratorios 1822, sole manager 1823; professor of the harp and general sec. at R.A. of Music 24 March 1824 to 1827; conductor at the King’s theatre 1826–32; ran away with Sir H. R. Bishop’s wife 1839; visited every country in Europe except France; went to United States 1847; appeared at Prince of Wales’s theatre Sydney 22 Dec. 1855; wrote an oratorio called Le déluge universel, 8 operas, a Method and many solo pieces, d. Sydney 7 Jany. 1856.

      BODDAM, Edward Tudor. Entered Madras army 11 Dec. 1841; lieut. col. staff corps 11 Dec. 1867; M.G. 16 June 1876. d. 12 Feb. 1880 aged 55.

      BODDINGTON, Henry John (2 son of Edward Williams of London, artist), b. London 1811; exhibited pictures at the R.A. 1837 to death; member of Society of British artists 1842, exhibited about 10 pictures every year at their gallery in Suffolk st. 1842 to death, his paintings are mostly taken from quiet English country life. (m. 1832 Clara Boddington whose name he adopted). d. Barnes, Surrey 11 April 1865.

      BODE, Rev. John Ernest (son of Wm. Bode of the General Post Office, London). b. 1816; ed. at Eton, the Charterhouse and Ch. Ch. Ox., Hertford scholar (the first) 1835, B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840; student and tutor of his college 1841–47, censor 1844; R. of Westwell Oxon. 1847–60; select preacher 1848; surrogate 1850–60; Bampton lecturer 1855; contested chair of poetry in Univ. of Ox. 1857; R. of Castle Camps, Cambridge 1860 to death; author of Ballads from Herodotus 1853, 2 ed. 1854; Lecture on the English formularies 1855; Short occasional poems 1858; Hymns from the Gospel of the day 1860. d. Castle Camps rectory 6 Oct. 1874.

      BODEN, George (youngest СКАЧАТЬ