A solicitor who lived and died at Market Boswell in Leicestershire and is reported to have ‘brought an old world fragrance to the profession of the law by invariably wearing a buttonhole flower’ (obituary in Leicester Evening Mail, 2 February 1952. He is listed in the Naturalist's Directory, 1904-5 at Market Bosworth, Nuneaton and in the same periodical in 1906-7 at Sandown Road, Knighton, Leicestershire
His work on Coleoptera in Leicestershire between 1885 and 1907 is discussed by Lott in the chapter titled ‘1893-1907 Bouskell and friends’ (19-24). Bouskell was the first secretary of the newly formed Leicester Entomological Club whose Chairman was Frederick Bates. The numerous records listed in the annual reports of the Club’s outings, which appeared in the Trans. of the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society, were compiled and written, at least in the beginning, largely by the two men. From small beginnings the Club expanded quickly. Local excursions were organised three or four times a year together with an annual four-day visit to the New Forest at Whitsun and a weekend at Wicken Fen in August. When the first conversazione was held in 1895 it attracted 150 people. Several members were acquired from out of county including Bertram Rye, Sir Thomas Hudson Beare, Tutt and Donisthorpe. In a contribution to the last’s obituary Bouskell described Donisthorpe who had been born in Leicestershire, as ‘his oldest friend’. The success of the Club was attributed in large measure to Bouskell who remained as hon. Secretary until 1905 and as chairman or vice-chairman until 1912.
His first published entomological note was on the Lepidoptera, but by 1893 when he wrote 'Oberea oculata (L) at Wicken' in ERJV, 4, 1893, 272, his attention appears to have turned mainly to the Coleoptera, although he did retain his interest in butterflies. Subsequently, he published a number of other articles in this periodical, in one of which he mentions collecting with Donisthorpe and Headley (10, 1898,19-22) and in another with the Reverend Birkenhead near Market Harborough, Leicestershire. (15, 1903, 288). Other notes refer to collecting in the New Forest. He also published one article on parthenogenesis in Transactions Leicester Literary Philosophical Society, 4, 1897, 418-27, the periodical which includes most of his other published material, and the section on insects in the VCH of Rutland, 1907, 64-94. Lott notes of this last that ‘it has many gaps represented by common species that were presumably meant to be taken as read and considered too uninteresting to enumerate... unfortunately, the main manuscript on which it was based has been lost together with previous lists by Matthews and Bates that provided a foundation. This loss probably happened during a house fire at Bouskell’s home’. It was probably this fire that Donisthorpe reported as having destroyed Bouskell’s collection. Lott (2009) lists some of his publications relating to Leicestershire.
Pedersen (2002), 119, records that there is correspondence dated 1893 with C.J. Wainwright in the RES.
Surprisingly no obituary notices of him a[party from the one mentioned above are recorded. (MD 10/01, 11/09)