BOOTH, ROBERT, son of Hon. and Very Rev. Robert Booth DD, Dean of Bristol, and his second wife Mary, sister of Charles Hales (qv); b.; adm.; QS (aged 15) 1712; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1716, matr. 8 Jun 1716, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1716 - 1 Jul 1729 (void); BA 1720; MA 1723; adm. Middle Temple 20 Jun 1716, called to bar 7 May 1725; MP Bodmin from 1727; d. 25 Jan 1732/3.

BOREMAN (or BOURMAN), ROBERT, son of William Boreman, East Greenwich, Kent, holder of a position at courts of Queen Elizabeth, James I and Charles I, and brother of Sir William Boreman, Kt., Clerk of the Green Cloth; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1627, scholar 1628; BA 1631/2; MA 1635; BD 1643; DD 9 Aug 1660; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 4 Oct 1633, Major Fellow 10 Mar 1634, Tutor 1636-41; deprived of his Fellowship by the Parliamentary Visitors, but restored to it 1660, remaining Fellow until c. 1669; ordained priest (Peterborough) 18 Feb 1637/8; Rector of Blisworth, Northants., 15 Oct 1660 -3; Rector of St. Giles’s in the Fields, London, from 18 Nov 1663; Prebendary of Westminster from 19 Dec 1667; a pious and learned divine; made an unfounded attack upon Richard Baxter; author, The Countryman’s Catechism or the Churches Plea for Tithes, 1652, and other works; d. unm. 15 Nov 1675. DNB.

BOREMAN, JOHN, son of Joseph Boreman, Kent; b.; adm.; KS (aged 14) in 1650; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1653, adm. pens. 6 Jul 1653, scholar 1655, matr. Mich. 1656; BA 1656/7; MA 1660.

Bottomley, Arthur Cousen, son of A. W. Bottomley, of Weston-super-Mare, Somerset; b. May 8, 1885; adm. as Q.S. Jan. 18, 1900; left (with Triplett) July 1904; Clare Coll. Camb., scholar 1904, matric. Michaelmas 1904; played chess against Oxford 1905-7; B.A. 1907; served in the R. N. V. R. during Great War I.

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.

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.

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.

BOWEN, THOMAS; b.; adm.; KS 1700; left 1701.

BOYD, THOMAS; b.; adm.; QS 1703.

BOYLE, HENRY, 1ST EARL OF SHANNON (I), second son of Lieut. -Col. Hon. Henry Boyle, and Lady Mary O’Brien, d. of Murrough O’Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin (I); b.; adm.; QS 1702; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 5 Mar 1704/5, aged 18; of Castle Martyr, co. Cork; MP (I) Midleton 1707-13, Kilmallock 1713-4, co. Cork 1715-56; successfully resisted the attempt of the government in 1729 to obtain a vote for a continuation of supplies to the Crown for twenty-one years; Privy Councillor (I) 13 Apr 1733; Chancellor of the Exchequer (I) 19 Nov 1733 - Nov 1735, 1739-54, 1755-6; opposed the government proposal for appropriating the Irish surplus, 1753; Speaker of the Irish House of Commons 4 Oct 1733 - 31 Mar 1756; LLD Trinity Coll. Dublin 1735; the parliamentary leader of the Whig party in Ireland; styled by Walpole “the King of the Irish Commons”; acted no less than fifteen times as a Lord Justice in the absence of the Lord Lieutenant; on resigning the Speakership he was granted a government pension and created Earl of Shannon (I) 7 Apr 1756; m. 1st, 1715, Catherine, dau. of Chidley Coote, Kilmallock, co. Limerick; m. 2nd, Sep 1726 Lady Henrietta Boyle, dau. of Charles Boyle, 3rd Earl of Cork (I) and 2nd Earl of Burlington; d. at Dublin 28 Dec 1764. DNB.