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BOUGHTON, HENRY, son of Rev. Le Neve Boughton, Rector of Offord Cluny, Hunts., and Minor Canon of Windsor; b.; adm. (aged 14) Jan 1717/8, having previously been at Sedbergh Sch. five years; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. sizar 22 Feb 1720/1, matr. 1721; BA 1724/5; ordained deacon 21 Feb 1724/5, priest 24 Dec 1727 (both Lincoln); Minor Canon of Windsor 5 Jul 1725 – c. Jul 1728; Curate, Offord Cluny, Hunts., 1727-8; Rector of Barrow, Suffolk, from 20 Apr 1728; Minor Canon of St. Paul’s 14 Nov 1739 [successor appointed 31 Oct 1740]; m. 29 Jul 1729 Joanna Wyat; d. 1739.

BOUGHTON, JAMES, son of Thomas Boughton, King’s Cliffe, Northants., attorney; bapt. King’s Cliffe, Northants 13 Sep 1738 (IGI); adm. (aged 11) Feb 1750/1; in school lists 1751 (as Boulton), 1754; went to Oakham Sch.; St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 22 Jul 1758, matr. Mich. 1759; BA 1763; ordained deacon 23 Dec 1764 (Lincoln, lit. dim. from Peterborough), priest (Lincoln) 25 May 1766; Curate, Great Gidding, Hunts., and Coveney, Cambs.; Rector of Thornton-le-Moor, Lincs., 7 Feb 1781-93.

BOUGHTON, WILLIAM EDWARD ROUSE, 2nd Bart.; only son of Sir Charles Rouse Boughton, 1st Bart. and Catherine Pearce Hall; b. 14 Sept. 1788; in school list May 1803 as 'Boughton' (see Betham, Baronetage of England, 1804, vol. iv, 225, where it is stated that William Edward Boughton, as he then was, is “now at Westminster School”); left 1805; Christ Church, Oxford; Member of Parliament (Evesham); m. Charlotte, dau. of Thomas Knight, horticulturalist; d. 22 May 1856.

BOULGER, JOHN, son of John Boulger, St. Martin’s, Chester, and Mary Holland (IGI); nephew of Howell Holland Edwards (qv); b.; adm.; left 1808; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 12 May 1808, aged 18; BA 1812; MA 1816; ordained deacon 1813, priest 1814 (both Chester); Curate, Wallasey, Cheshire, 1813-4, Little Budworth, Cheshire, 1814-22, Llanrwst, Denbighshire, 1822-30; still in Crockford 1876.

BOULGER, WILLIAM, son of William Boulger, Bradfield, Berks.; b. 12 Feb 1808; adm. 18 Sep 1816 (Du Brieux's); Queen’s Coll. Oxford, matr. 1 Dec 1825.

Boult, Sir Adrian Cedric, only son of Cedric Randal Bault, of Blundellsands, near Liverpool, by Katherine Florence, daughter of Harry Dawson Barman, of Blackheath, Kent; b. April 8, 1889; adm. April 26, 1901 (G); left July 1908; Ch. Ch. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1908; B.A. and Mus. Bae. 1912; M.A. 1915; studied in Leipzig; on the musical staff, Royal Opera, 1914; served during Great War I in the War Office, and on Commission Internationale de Ravitaillement; conducted for the Royal Philharmonic and the Liverpool Philharmonic Societies, the London Symphony, Queen's Hall, and Albert Hall orchestras; joined the teaching staff of the Royal College of Music 1919; conductor of Patron's Fund 1919-24; Musical Director of the Birmingham City Orchestra 1924-30 and 1959-60; Director of Music of the B. B.C. 1930-42; Conductor of the B. B.C. Orchestra 1930-51, and of the London Philharmonic Orchestra 1951-7; Mus.D. Oxon. 1921; Hon. LL.D. Birmingham 1930; F.R.C.M.; Hon. Mus.D. Edinburgh 1933; knighted 1937; Hon. Student of Ch. Ch. Oxon. 1939; Hon. LL.D. Liverpool 1947; Hon. Mus. Doc. Cambridge 1953; a Busby Trustee 1946; author of A Handbook on the Technique of Conducting; m. July 1, 1933, Ann, daughter of Capt. F.A. Bowles, R.N., of Sittingbourne, Kent; d. 22 Feb. 1983.

BOULTE, ---; in under school list 1715.

BOULTE, SIMON, son of Simon Boulte, St. Margaret’s, Westminster, Deputy Teller of the Exchequer, and Elizabeth, dau. of John Clayton, The Stable Yard, Westminster; stepson of Richard Russell (qv); bapt. Westminster Abbey 6 Jul 1705; in school list 1715; Min. Can. (aged 12) 1718; KS 1719; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1723, but went to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 24 May 1723; BCL 1747 [check]; ordained deacon (Oxford) 16 Jun 1728, priest (Ely) 21 Dec 1729; Rector of Deane, Hants., from 21 Dec 1729; Vicar of Kingsclere, Hants., from 30 Jan 1747/8; m. Oct 1734 Elizabeth Harwood, Deane, Hampshire; buried Deane, Hampshire 25 Jan 1752.

Boulter, Basil Seaton, brother of Benjamin Consitt Boulter (q.v.); b. April 20, 1878; adm. as Q.S. Jan. 15, 1891; elected to Trin. Coll. Camb. (with Triplett and junior Samwaies) July 1897 (adm. sub-sizar Oct. 1, 1897, classical exhibitioner, 1900); matric. Michaelmas 1897; B.A. 1900; 1st class clerk in the War Office 1901-19; served with the Royal Berks Regt. in France 1916-9; abroad in Jugoslavia; m. Aug. 10, 1919, Ida Marie, daughter of Edward Schaefer, of Vienna.