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 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.

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 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.

BOURKE, JOHN, son of John Bourke, Limerick, and Lucia Parker; b.; adm.; Min. Can. (aged 12) 1754; KS (Capt. ) 1755; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 22 Feb 1758; of Dromsally, co. Limerick, and St. Anne’s, Dublin; m. Sep 1774 Anne, dau. of Edmund Ryan, Dublin and Roscabell, co. Tipperary; d. 1795.

BOURKE, JOHN NICHOLAS, son of Thomas Bourke, Jamaica; b.; at school 1796; in school list 1797; KS (aged 13) 1800; probably the “Bourke” who played cricket against Eton 31 Jul 1801; m. 25 Mar 1809 Susan Wood Elliot, St. Paul, Covent Garden. [presumably John Nicholas Bourke, Capt. 3rd Yorkshire West Riding Militia, Army List 1808]

BOURCHER, JOHN; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1632, adm. scholar 1633, matr. Easter 1633; BA 1635/6; MA 1639; Fellow of Trinity Coll. 1637-44, when ejected by the Parliamentary Visitors; Tutor 1639-41. [Not Rector of Biscathorpe, Lincs., as stated in Record; the John Bourcher who was incumbent there was an older man, instituted in 1632]

BOUQUETT, PHILIP, son of Thomas Bouquett, La Rochelle, France; b.; adm.; KS 1683; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1689, adm. pens. 12 Jun 1689, aged 18, scholar 2 May 1690; BA 1692/3; MA 1696; BD 1706; DD 1711; Major Fellow, Trinity Coll., 3 Jul 1696, a Senior Fellow from 1722; ordained priest (Lincoln) 14 Mar 1702/3; Regius Professor of Hebrew, Cambridge, 1704-5 and from 24 Aug 1712; refused to sign the petition against Bentley; much ridiculed for his oddities and way of living; d. 12 Feb 1747/8; buried in Trinity Coll. Chapel. DNB.

Boulter, Benjamin Consitt, second son of the Rev. Walter Consitt Boulter, Vicar of Norton, Worcs., by Hannah Maria, daughter of Nathaniel Easton, of Torquay, Devon; b. May 6, 1876; adm. as Q.S. Jan. 16, 1890; left (with a Triplett gratuity) July 1895; Brasenose Coll. Oxon., matric. Oct. 1895; Junior Hulme Exhibitioner 1895; B.A. 1900; M.A. 1902; assist. master at the Mercers' School from 1901; illustrated several books and was author of Relics or Realities? (1919) and other works; m. May 8, 1913, Bertha, younger daughter of Charles Tressler, of Godalming, Surrey; d. March 26, 1960.