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 son of John Boden of Edmonton lodge, Derbyshire_). _b._ 22 Jany. 1816; ed. at Rugby and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1845; barrister I.T. 30 April 1841, bencher 30 April 1862, treasurer 1876; recorder of Stamford Feb. 1855; recorder of Derby 7 May 1859 to death; Q.C. 6 Feb. 1862. _d._ 7 Queen’s gardens, Hyde park, London 16 Feb. 1880.