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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, 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, 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.

BOSWELL, MARMADUKE; b. ; adm. ; Min. Can. 1639.

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.

Bosworth, John Stern, son of Col. William John Bosworth, 5th Batt. Manchester Regt., of Roehampton, Surrey; b. Sept. 18, 1891; adm. May 4, 1906 (R); left Dec. 1907; Sub-Lieut. R. N. V. R. Dec. 7. 1914; Lieut. Dec. 7, 1915; Pilot Officer (A. and S. D.) R.A.F.V.R. Sept. 19, 1939; Flying Officer Sept. 19, 1940; Flight-Lieut. March 1, 1942; m. Feb. 29, 1916, Mrs. Lesmoin Gordon, daughter of Surgeon-General H. J. Rose.

BOTELER, EDMUND; b.; adm. (aged 11) Apr 1725; left 1726. [Doubtless brother of, or close kin to, next]

BOTELER, GREGORY; b.; adm. (aged 13) Apr 1725.