BLYTH, EDWARD, _b._ London 23 Dec. 1810; a druggist at Tooting 1832; contributed to _Magazine of natural history_ from 1833; curator of museum of Asiatic Society of Bengal at Calcutta Sep. 1841 to 1862; contributed to the _Indian Field_, _India sporting review_ and _Calcutta Review_; contributed to _Land and Water_ and the _Field_ under nom de plume of Zoophilus; 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.