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Borradaile, William Guy, son of Oswell Robert Borradaile (q.v.); b. July 23, 1892; adm. Jan. 18, 1906 (G); left Dec. 1907; a coal merchant; served in Great War I; Lieut. R. N. V. R. Nov. 8, 1917; m. Sept. 28, 1920, Mary Isabella, youngest daughter of Illtyd Isaac Redwood, of Belvedere, Kent; d. July 10, 1957.

BOSANQUET, JAMES WHATMAN, brother of Samuel Richard Bosanquet (qv); b. 26 Jan 1804; adm. (G) 22 Sep 1814; left Christmas 1817; entered his father’s bank in Lombard Street, of which he became a partner; one of HM Lieutenants, City of London; JP Middlesex; author, Chronology of the times of Daniel, Ezra and Nehemiah, 1848, and other works on biblical and Assyrian chronology; m. 1st, 16 May 1840 Merelina, only dau. of Right Hon. Sir Nicholas Conyngham Tindal PC, Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas; m. 2nd, 15 Jul 1854 Frances Georgiana Elizabeth, elder dau. of Lord John Thomas Henry Somerset (qv); m. 3rd, 25 Aug 1864 Emily Dorothy, dau. of Lieut. -Col. James Best, Park House, Boxley, Kent; d. 22 Dec 1877. DNB.

Bosanquet, Peter Henry, son of Vivian Henry Courthope Bosanquet, sometime HM Consul­ Gen. Frankfurt, and Dorothy Mary, d. of Charles Walter Moule, President of Corp. Christi Coll. Camb.; b. 28 Nov. 1919; adm. Sept. 1933 (G); left July 1938; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1938, BA 1941, MA 1948; RNVR 1940-5 (Lieut.); Architectural Assn 1946-8, ARIBA 1948, FRIBA 1970; lecturer Birmingham Sch. of Architecture 1950-2; in practice in Oxford 1953-8; principal Peter Bosanquet & Partners 1958-84; retd 1984; m. 17 Mar. 1951 Mary Catharine, d. of Rev. Gilbert Arthur Barclay, Rector of Langley, Kent; d. Dec. 2005

BOSANQUET, WILLIAM HENRY FRANCIS, brother of Samuel Richard Bosanquet (qv); b. 5 Feb 1805; adm. (G) 19 Jun 1816; adm. Inner Temple 13 May 1825, called to bar Trinity 1836; equity draughtsman and conveyancer; of Knockane and Kilmagemogue, co. Waterford; m. 6 May 1861 Amelia Mary Georgiana, eldest dau. of John Sherlock, Kilmagemogue, co. Waterford; d. 29 Sep 1878. .

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.

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.

Boulter, Reginald Stanley Lewis, eldest son of Stanley Boulter, of Godstone, Surrey, barrister at-law; b. March 8, 1876; adm. Sept. 22, 1887 (G); left June 1889; at Eton 1889-92; Trin. Hall, Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1892; a member of the London Stock Exchange; temp. Lieut. R. A. S. C. Oct. 16, 1915; Capt. April 1, 1917; Staff appointment Jan. 1, 1918; m. Oct. 26, 1910, Ivy Armine Douglas, elder daughter of H. Douglas Rowley, of Marlay Grange, co. Dublin; d. April 5, 1929.

BOWER, GEORGE HENRY, brother of Robert Bower (qv); b. 12 Jan 1802; adm. (G) 17 Jan 1816; left Whitsun 1819; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 12 Feb 1821, matr. Mich. 1821; BA 1826; MA 1829; ordained deacon 2 Jul 1826, priest 22 Jul 1827 (both York); Rector of Rossington, Yorks., from 8 Oct 1833; d. 1874.

BOWER, THOMAS BOWYER, elder son of Thomas Bowyer Bower (qv); b. 1 Jul 1803; adm. (G) 17 Oct 1815; left Christmas 1817; Ensign, 61st Foot 28 Aug 1823; Lieut., 4 Feb 1826; Capt., 12 Feb 1826, retd. half-pay; of Iwerne House, Dorset; JP Dorset, High Sheriff 1847; m. 9 Aug 1828 Eliza, only dau. of William Creed, Ballygrennan Castle, co. Limerick; d. 8 Sep 1868.

BOWKER, ALEXANDER GEORGE, eldest son of Alexander Bowker, King’s Lynn, Norfolk, and Charlotte Martha Smith; b. 25 Jan 1866; adm. (H/G) 22 Jan 1880; left Dec 1882; farmed in USA and Canada; m. 18 Dec 1896 Sarah Louisa, second dau. of James Gunn, Woodstock, Ontario, Canada.