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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BOLTON, JOHN HENRY. _b._ Dec. 1795; in the commissariat department;
solicitor at 1 New sq. Lincoln’s Inn, London 1828 to death;
president of Incorporated law society 1868–69. _d._ Lee terrace,
Blackheath, Kent 13 Oct. 1873.
BOLTON, REV. WILLIAM JAY. Educ. at Caius coll. Cam., Hulsean
prizeman 1852, B.A. 1853, M. A. 1857; V. of St. John’s Stratford,
Essex 1866–81; V. of St. James’s, Bath 1881 to death; author of
_Evidences of Christianity from the early Fathers_ 1853; _Fireside
preaching_ 1856; _Footsteps of the flock_ 1860; _The great
Anti-Christ_ 1870. _d._ Pelham, Oldfield park, Bath 28 May 1884 in
68 year.
BONAPARTE, JEROME NAPOLEON (_elder son of Jerome Bonaparte
1784–1860, king of Westphalia_). _b._ Camberwell, London 7 July
1805. _d._ Baltimore 17 June 1870. _Bingham’s Marriages of the
Bonapartes ii_, 191–94 (1881).
BONAPARTE, NAPOLEON EUGÈNE LOUIS JEAN JOSEPH (_only child of Charles
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte 1808–73, Napoleon iii Emperor of
France_). _b._ Palace of the Tuileries, Paris 16 March 1856; went
with his father to the seat of war 1870, present at capture of
Saarbrück 2 Aug. 1870; landed at Dover 8 Sep. 1870; lived at
Camden house, Chislehurst, Kent 10 Dec. 1870 to 12 Oct. 1871 and
1874–79; a cadet at Royal military college Woolwich 12 Oct. 1871
to 1874 where a statue of him by Count Gleichen was unveiled 13
Jany 1883; left Southampton 27 Feb. 1879; killed by Zulus in
valley of Ityolyozi, Zululand 1 June 1879, buried in St. Mary’s
church Chislehurst 12 July 1879. _Life of the Prince Imperial of
France by Ellen Barlee_ 1880, _portrait_; _Graphic xix_, 633, 637,
644 (1879), _3 portraits, xxvii_, 53 (1883); _I.L.N. 16 July 1879,
portrait_; _The life of Napoleon iii by Blanchard Jerrold iv_, 427
(1882), 2 _portraits_.
BONAR, REV. JOHN (_son of Rev. Archibald Bonar of Cramond,
Midlothian_). _b._ Cramond; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; licensed by
presbytery of Edin. 30 April 1823; ordained 11 July 1826; minister
of Larbert and Dunipace March 1826 to 24 May 1843 when he joined
in the free secession; Convener of committee for colonial and
continental missions in the Free church 1846; minister at Aberdeen
Dec. 1846 and at the Renfield st. church, Glasgow 1848–54; D.D.
Edin. 1857; author of _The established church of Scotland as it
was and as it is_ 1845. _d._ Edinburgh 20 Dec. 1863 in 63 year.
_Our Scottish Clergy, second series_ (1849) 149–55.
BONAR, WILLIAM (_3 son of Andrew Bonar of Edinburgh, banker_). _b._
Edin. 3 Jany. 1798; ed. at high school and Univ. Edin.; a partner
in bank of Ramsay, Bonar and Co. 1817 to date when bank was merged
in Bank of Scotland; employed a missionary to look after the
ignorant and neglected poor in Edin.; F.R.S. Edin. 1822; author of
several religious tracts. _d._ Chatsworth house, Malvern 9 Nov.
1866.
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