BONOMI, JOSEPH (_son of Giuseppe Bonomi of London, architect 1739–1808_). _b._ 76 Great Titchfield st. London 9 Oct. 1796; ed. at Carshalton, Surrey; studied drawing at Royal Academy and sculpture under Nollekens; fellow Student with John Gibson in Rome; lived in Egypt and Syria 1824–32 and 1842–44; went to the Holy Land 1833; illustrated the Egyptological works of Wilkinson and Birch and nearly all those of Samuel Sharpe; curator of Sir John Soane’s Museum, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London 1861 to death; F.R.A.S, 8 Feb. 1861; author of _Nineveh and its palaces_ 1852, _new ed._ 1869. _d._ The Camels, Wimbledon park, Surrey 3 March 1878. _Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xxx_, 216–19 (1879); _The Proportions of the human figure by J. Bonomi, 5 ed._ 1880, _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxii_, 245 (1878), _portrait_. BONTEIN, JAMES (_younger son of John Pitt Bontein, captain 1 Life guards_). Groom of the privy chamber 1874 to death. _d._ Ambassadors’ court, St. James’s palace 16 Oct. 1884 aged 63. BOOKER, THOMAS (_son of Thomas Booker of 56 New Bond st. London, publisher who d. 26 Feb. 1826_). Printer at 37 Ranelagh st. Liverpool 1840; printer and publisher at 9 Rupert st. Leicester sq. London 1848, and at 75 Great Queen st. to death; published _The weekly register_ 4 Aug. 1849 to 26 Jany. 1850; _The Catholic register and magazine_ 1850; _Booker’s Pocket-Book directory_. _d._ Richmond 9 Nov. 1859 aged 37. BOOKER-BLAKEMORE, THOMAS WILLIAM (_son of Rev. Luke Booker 1762–1836, V. of Dudley_). _b._ Dudley 28 Sep. 1801; ed. at Hartlebury, Worcs.; tin plate manufacturer; took out patents for tin plate making 1837 and for manufacturing iron 1841; sheriff of Glamorganshire 1848; M.P. for Herefordshire 18 Oct. 1850 to death; took an active part on protectionist side in free trade controversy; A.I.C.E. 1850; assumed by r.l. additional name of Blakemore Sep. 1855; author of _Treatise on the mineral basin of South Wales_ 1848. _d._ Kingston-upon-Thames 7 Nov. 1858.