Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-HBoase, Frederic
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Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-H
Boase, Frederic
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BLOXAM, CHARLES JOHN. Admitted solicitor Trinity term 1821;
practised in London to death, probably oldest solicitor in
practice on the rolls; senior member of court of Clothworkers’
Company, served as master when the new hall was opened by Prince
Albert 27 March 1860. _d._ 16 Bedford place, Russell sq. London 25
Feb. 1885 in 85 year.
BLOXAM, REV. RICHARD ROWLAND (_elder brother of Rev. A. Bloxam_).
_b._ Jany. 1798; ed. at Rugby and Worcester coll. Ox., B.A. 1819;
master of Guilsborough gr. sch. 1821–24; chaplain of Pembroke
dockyard 1845; domestic chaplain to Earl Ferrers 1848; R. of
Harlaston, Tamworth 1850 to death; author of _A voyage to the
Sandwich Islands in H.M.S. Blonde_. _d._ Leamington 23 Jany. 1877.
BLOXAM, THOMAS. _b._ London 1836; ed. at city of London school and
King’s college; chemist to Industrial museum of Scotland 1860 to
date when office was abolished; lecturer on chemistry at St.
George’s hospital London; lecturer in experimental and natural
science at Cheltenham college 1862 to death; F.C.S. 1859, F.G.S.
1869. _d._ London July 1872. _Cheltenham College Mag. iii_, 258–59
(1872).
BLUNDELL, FREDERICK. Second lieutenant Madras artillery 1813,
colonel 4 May 1858 to death; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854.
_d._ Cheltenham 5 July 1860 aged 62.
BLUNDELL, JAMES. _b._ London 27 Dec. 1790; ed. at United Borough
hospitals and Univ. of Edin., M.D. 24 June 1813; physician in
London 1813 to death; L.R.C.P. 25 June 1818, F.R.C.P. 6 Aug. 1838;
lecturer at Guy’s hospital 1819 to 1836; his class on Midwifery
was largest in London; author of _Researches, physiological and
pathological_ 1825; _Principles and practice of Obstetricy_ 1834;
_Observations on some of the more important diseases of women_
1837; _d._ 80 Piccadilly, London 15 Jany. 1878. Personalty sworn
under £350,000, 9 Feb. 1878. _Pettigrew’s Medical portrait gallery
vol. 1_ (1840), _portrait_; _W. C. Taylor’s National portrait
gallery ii_, 59 (1846), _portrait_; _Medical Circular i_, 283
(1852).
BLUNT, JOHN ELIJAH. Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822;
barrister L.I. 24 June 1822; a comr. in lunacy 1833–42; master in
chancery 26 Nov. 1849 to death; author of _A history of the
establishment and residence of the Jews in England with an enquiry
into their civil disabilities_ 1830. _d._ 45 Dover st. Piccadilly,
London 28 June 1856 aged 59.
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