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_.