Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-H by Frederic Boase

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. BOWYER, 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 Balaklava 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. BOYD, 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. BOYD, JOHN M’NEILL (_brother of Very Rev. Archibald Boyd_). _b._ Londonderry 1812; entered navy 1825; second captain of Royal George 120 guns 1853–6; served in the Baltic campaign; captain 10 May 1856, captain of Ajax 60 guns coastguard ship at Kingstown 1 Feb. 1858 to death; author of _A manual for naval cadets_ 1857. Drowned while attempting to rescue crew of a vessel wrecked near Kingstown harbour 9 Feb. 1861. _Life in death a sermon preached on board H.M.S. Ajax on Sunday Feb. 17, 1861 by the Lord Bishop of Labuan with a memoir of J. M. Boyd by his brother_ 1861. BOYD, MARK (_4 son of Edward Boyd of Merton hall, Wigtonshire who d. 1846_). _b._ Surrey 1805; director in London of a Scotch Insurance Office; engaged in colonization of Australia and New Zealand 1843–53; author of _Reminiscences of fifty years_ 1871; _Social Gleanings_ 1875. (_m._ 23 Sep. 1848 Emma Anne widow of Robert Coates, better known as Romeo Coates the eccentric actor, she _d._ 1872). _d._ 16 St. George’s place, Hyde park, London 12 Sep. 1879. BOYD, MOSSEM. Entered Bengal army 1795; lieut. col. commandant 65 N.I. 13 May 1825; colonel of 5 N.I.; colonel of 53 N.I. to death; general 9 April 1856. _d._ 6 Dawson place Bayswater, London 8 April 1865 aged 84. BOYD, PERCY. Great friend of Dickens and Thackeray; author of _A book of ballads from the German_ 1848. _d._ London 1 Jany. 1876. BOYD, ROBERT. M.R.C.S. 1830, M.D. Edin. 1831, L.R.C.P. 1836, F.R.C.P. 1852; resident phys. at Marylebone workhouse infirmary; phys. and superintendent of Somerset county lunatic asylum; proprietor and manager of Southall Park private asylum; pres. of Med. Psychol. Assoc. 1870; contributed 16 papers to the _Journal of Mental Science_ and papers to _Royal medical and chirurgical transactions, Edinburgh Medical Journal_ and the _Lancet_; lost his life in a fire which destroyed his asylum at Southall Park 14 Aug. 1883. _Lancet ii_, 352–3 (1883); _Medical times and gazette ii_, 249–50 (1883). BOYD, WILLIAM. Called to Irish bar 1818; Q.C. 7 Feb. 1849; recorder of Londonderry to death. _d._ 1855. BOYD, WILLIAM (_3 son of Richard Keown of Downpatrick_). _b._ Dublin March 1816; sheriff of co. Down 1849; M.P. for Downpatrick 5 Aug. 1867 to 26 Jany. 1874; assumed name of Boyd 1873. _d._ Carrowdore castle, co. Down 19 Jany. 1877. BOYES, JOHN FREDERICK (_son of Benjamin Boyes of Charterhouse sq. London_). _b._ 10 Feb. 1811; entered Merchant Taylors’ school Oct. 1819; scholar of Linc. coll. Ox. 1828; Andrews’ civil law exhibitioner at St. John’s coll. 1829, B.A. 1833, M.A. 1835; second master of proprietary school Walthamstow, then head master; author of _Illustrations of tragedies of Æschylus and Sophocles from the Greek, Latin and English poets_ 1844; _English repetitions in prose and verse_ 1849; _Life and Books, a record of thought and reading_ 1859; _Lacon in council_ 1865. _d._ 10 St. James’s terrace, Harrow road, London 26 May 1879. _Preface and appendix to Sermon by Rev. J. G. Tanner_ 1879. BOYLE, ALEXANDER (_2 son of David Boyle lord chief justice of Scotland_). _b._ 9 March 1810; entered navy 4 Sep. 1823; commander of Thunderbolt steam sloop at Cape of Good Hope 27 Dec. 1845, lost his ship in Algoa Bay Feb. 1847 for which he was dismissed service 4 May 1847 but restored Jany. 1849; captain 8 Aug. 1857; retired V.A. 2 Aug. 1879. _d._ 17 Prince’s Gardens London 8 June 1884. BOYLE, CAROLINE COURTENAY. _b._ 26 May 1803; maid of honour to Queen Adelaide many years; granted civil list pension of £100, 30 Oct.