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Boss, ---, fl. ca. 1797
GB-2014-WSA-03551 · Person · fl. ca. 1797

BOSS, ---; b.; in school list Feb 1797.

GB-2014-WSA-03552 · Person · 1931-2016

Bostock, Edmund Anthony Cornish, son of Brig. Charles Mendelssohn Bostock REME, MIMechE AMICE, and Marie Loveys, d. of Alfred John Coade Cornish of Stanley, Liverpool; b. 18 July 1931; adm. Sept. 1945 (G); left Dec. 1948; adm. solicitor March 1954; BBC solicitor’s dept.; m. 17 June 1967 Anna Elizabeth, d. of Maj. John Allan Maitland-Titterton TD RA; d. Aug. 2016.

Bostock, Samuel, 1764-1833
GB-2014-WSA-03553 · Person · 1764-1833

BOSTOCK, SAMUEL, son of Samuel Bostock, St. Saviour, Southwark, Surrey, cheesemonger; bapt. 22 Dec 1764; adm. 27 May 1777; KS (aged 13) 1778; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1782, adm. pens. 29 May 1782, scholar 2 May 1783; BA 1786; m.; d. 8 Dec 1833.

Bosvile, Godfrey, 1717-1784
GB-2014-WSA-03554 · Person · 1717-1784

BOSVILE, GODFREY, son of William Bosvile, Gunthwaite, Yorks., and Bridget, dau. of John Wheatley, Royston, Herts.; bapt. 20 May 1717; adm. (aged 14) Oct 1731; left 1734; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 25 Nov 1734, matr. 1735; adm. Inner Temple 22 Jan 1736/7; of Gunthwaite and Thorpe, Yorks.; travelling in Italy 1743-4; a genial Yorkshire squire, of radical views; m. 30 Oct 1739 Diana, eldest dau. of Sir William Wentworth, Bart.; d. 25 Jan 1784.

Bosvile, John, ca. 1569-?
GB-2014-WSA-03555 · Person · ca. 1569-?

BOSVILE, JOHN, third son of Ralph Bosvile, Brabourne, Kent, Clerk of Court of Wards and Liveries, and his second wife Bennett, dau. of Anthony Skynner, St. Bride’s, London, and Shelfield, Staffs.; b.; at school (aged 13) 2 Jul 1582 (Chapter Muniments 43050); a Roman Catholic priest; obtained doctorate at Sorbonne, Paris.

Boswell, James, 1778-1822
GB-2014-WSA-03556 · Person · 1778-1822

BOSWELL, JAMES, second surviving son of James Boswell, Auchinleck, Ayrshire, advocate, the biographer of Dr Johnson, and Margaret, dau. of David Montgomerie, Lainshaw, Ayrshire; b. 15 Sep 1778; adm. 1790; in sixth form list 1796; Brasenose Coll. Oxford, matr. 14 Jan 1797; BA 1801; MA 1806; Vinerian Scholar 1803, Vinerian Fellow 1812; adm. Inner Temple 21 Jan 1799, called to bar 24 May 1805; a Commissioner of Bankrupts (occurs in annual lists 1819 to death); one of the earliest members of the Roxburghe Club; completed the second edition of Malone’s Shakespeare; edited the third variorum edition of Shakespeare in 21 vols., 1821; d. unm. 24 Feb 1822. DNB.

GB-2014-WSA-03557 · Person · ca. 1798-1852

BOSWELL, THOMAS ALEXANDER, only son of Thomas David Boswell, St. Marylebone, London, and Ann Catherine, sister of Christopher Green (qv); b.; adm. Christmas 1811; left Whitsun 1815; Brasenose Coll. Oxford, matr. 14 Jan 1815, aged 17; BA 1818; MA 1823; of Crawley Grange, Bucks.; author, Recollections of a Pedestrian, 1826; m. 20 May 1841 Jane Maria, dau. of John Barker, Cadogan Place, Chelsea; d. 24 Mar 1852.