Bowen, Geoffrey Adcock, brother of Sir John Poland Bowen (q.v.); b. Sept. 29, 1889, adm. Sept. 25, 1902 (A); left July 1905; d. at Alexandria, Egypt, Sept. 29, 1912.
BOWDLER, SAMUEL, fourth son of William Bowdler, Hereford, and his first wife Jane, dau. of Samuel Fell (qv); b.; adm.; KS 1670; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1673, matr. 31 May 1673, but not adm. as Westminster Student; d. 1678.
Bovill, William John, son of Edward Bovill (q.v.); b. May 14, 1885; adm. Sept. 28, 1899 (R); left April 1900; 2nd Lieut. Yorkshire Regt. March 2, 1904, Indian Army Feb. 6, 19o6; Lieut. June 2, 1906; Capt. March 2, 1913; Major March 2, 1919; Lieut.-Col.; commanded the 6th Batt. Baluchi Regt.; served in Arab Rebellion 1920; Chief Infantry Adviser to King Feisal I 1922-6; retired 1933; O.B.E. 1920; lived after retirement in Egypt and Tasmania; m. June 20, 1932, Constance Anne Caroline, daughter of Alfred Jordan, of Bournemouth; d. in Tasmania Oct. 1944.
BOVILL, WILLIAM EDWARD, eldest son of William John Bovill QC, James Street, Buckingham Gate, London, Bencher Lincoln’s Inn, and Emma --- (IGI); b. 9 Aug 1839; adm. 3 Feb 1852; QS 1854; left Whitsun 1858; London Univ.; became a civil engineer; Assistant Master and Bursar Jan 1869 – May 1883 ; House Master of Homeboarders at 1 Dean’s Yard Sep 1880 – Aug 1882, of Ashburnham Sep 1882 – May 1883.; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 24 Jan 1873; emigrated to Western Australia, where he became a fruit farmer, later moving to Tasmania; m. 9 Aug 1883 Persis, youngest dau. of John Percy Baumgartner, Milton, Cambs.; d. at Thornhill, Devonport East, Tasmania, 22 Apr 1916.
BOVILL, SIR ELLIOT CHARLES, brother of William Edward Bovill (qv); b. 23 Apr 1848; adm. 28 Jan 1857 [check]; QS 1863; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1867, matr. 12 Jun 1867; BA 1871; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 23 Apr 1869, called to bar 27 Jan 1873; equity draughtsman and conveyancer; hon. sec., Elizabethan Club, 1873-9; Assist. Judicial Commissioner, Cyprus, 1879-81, Judicial Commissioner 1881-3, Chief Justice 1883-92; knighted 11 Aug 1884; Chief Justice of the Straits Settlements from 13 Aug 1892 ; m. 27 Jul 1876 Anna, younger dau. of Rev. John Tahourdin White DD, Rector of St. Martin’s, Ludgate, London; d. at Singapore 24 Mar 1893.
Bovey, Quentin Christopher Drummond, son of Henry Taylor Bovey, F.R.S., of Chelsea, Rector of the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, by Emily Jane Boner, daughter of John Redpath, of Montreal, Canada; b. Sept. 11, 1895; adm. from St. John's School, Montreal, Sept. 24, 1908 (R); non-resident K.S. 1910; left July 1913; Ch. Ch. Oxon., matric. Michaelmas 1913; B.A. 1919; seconded from the Canadian Militia and attached to 8th Batt. Gordon Highlanders, temp. Lieut. Sept. 8, 1914; Capt. July 20, 1915; wounded in Sept. 1915; attached to Headquarters Eastern Command Sept. 1916; A.D.C. to G. O. C.-in-C. Forces on the Rhine April - June 1919; mentioned in despatches; Supervisor, Exchange Dept., Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada, since Feb. 1923; m. Sept. 15, 1921, Elizabeth Maude, daughter of Charles A. Kennedy, of Montreal; d. 3 Aug. 1987.
BOURNE, VINCENT, son of Andrew Bourne, St. Martins in the Fields, Westminster, wig maker, and Ann --- (IGI); bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 22 Jul 1694 (IGI); adm.; Min. Can. (aged 14) 1709; QS 1710; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1714, adm. pens. 27 May 1714, scholar 13 May 1715, matr. 1715; BA 1717/8; MA 1721; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll., 6 Sep 1720, Major Fellow 5 Jul 1721; an Usher at the School 1720 - Sep 1747; kept a boarding house in Cowley Street 1731-40 and in College Street 1741 to death 2 Dec 1747, where he was succeeded by Mrs.Porten. First of thirty-one recorded boarders adm. Jan.1735/6, last recorded boarder adm. Oct 1745. Five further boarders, adm. between Jun 1749 and Jan 1751/2, are described in Dr.Nicoll’s admission book as boarding with “Bourne”, and it may be that these were boarders with Bourne’s widow Lucia, presumably at a different address from that in College Street; Housekeeper and Deputy Serjeant-at-Arms, House of Commons, Nov 1734; an indolent teacher and a lax disciplinarian; William Cowper (qv), who loved “the memory of Vinny Bourne” and translated a number of his old master’s Latin poems into English verse, relates seeing the Duke of Richmond “set fire to his greasy locks and box his ears to put it out again” (Southey, Life and Works of William Cowper, iv, 98); a Latin poet of great charm, “sucking from every flower, making a flower of everything, his diction all Latin and his thoughts all English” (Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1905, vi, 457); published his Poemata, Latine partim reddita partim scripta, 1734; m. 25 Mar 1727 Lucia, widow of George Jewell (qv); d. 2 Dec 1747. DNB.
BOURNE, ROBERT, son of Robert Burr Bourne (qv); b. 3 Jul 1832; adm. 4 Feb 1848 (Scott's); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 12 Jun 1851; Ensign, 2nd West India Regt., 11 Nov 1853; Lieut., 15 Feb 1855; Capt., 7 Dec 1855; 54th Foot, 5 Sep 1856; retd. 5 Jun 1857; Hon. Lieut. -Col., Worcestershire Volunteers, 1873-82; DL Worcestershire, JP (1861) Worcs.; High Sheriff, Herefordshire, 1890, JP Herefordshire; of Cowarne Court, Herefs.; m. 6 Jan 1857 Anna Eliza, youngest dau. of Samuel Baker, Lypiatt Park, Gloucs.; d. 30 Jun 1915.
BOURNE, ROBERT BURR, son of Robert Bourne MD FRCP, Professor of Clinical Medicine, Oxford Univ., and Mary, dau. of James Burr, Ditchley, Oxfordshire, Steward to George Henry Lee, 3rd Earl of Lichfield (qv); b.; adm. 13 Sep 1809; KS 1812; Capt. of the School 1816; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1817, matr. 22 May 1817, Westminster Student; BA 1821; MA 1823; adm. Inner Temple 1821; an Usher at the School 1822-9; ordained deacon 1826, priest 1827; Rector of St. Paul’s Cray, Kent, 21 Oct 1836-52; Curate, Grimley, Worcs., 1849-56; Rector of Donhead St. Andrew, Wilts., 1856-77; m. 14 Dec 1830 Eliza Jane, dau. of John Johnston, Danson Park, Kent; d. 30 Jan 1885, aged 86.
BOURNE, CHARLES JOHNSTON, son of Robert Burr Bourne (qv); b. 24 Aug 1835; adm. 4 Feb 1848 (Scott's); Min. Can. 1850; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 8 Jun 1854; BA 1859; ordained; Curate, Crawley, Hants.; d. at Nice 15 Feb 1861.