BOYS, W.J.E.

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A Captain in the army. Recorded in various volumes of the FBI series as having collected Coleoptera in that country. The species Paussus boysi Westwood (1845) and Rhysodes boysi Arrow (1901) are named after him. Smith (1986) notes that Boys sent insects to Hope in 1842, now in the HDO, together with a letter. The HDO also has a cabinet of insects other than Coleoptera purchased by Westwood in 1848, and paintings and transfers of Indian insects and the manuscript of his paper on Mutilla read to the ESL, June 1843. FES 1842-43. (MD 10/01)

BOWRING, John Charles

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Born into a large family of textile merchants long established in Devonshire. He was the eldest of eight children of Sir John Bowring, the politician. There is no information about his upbringing, but by the spring of 1842 he was engaged as a businessman in Hong Kong, where he must have been one of the first British residents. By 1848, and perhaps earlier, he was working for the well-known firm of Jardine, Matheson, and Company, and by 1854 when his father was appointed Governor of Hong Kong, he became a full partner in the company.

BOWHILL, James W.

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The register in the entomological Department at the RSM records the acquisition of a general collection of insects made by Bowhill from his wife in 1931 (1931.29). She lived at Morelands, Grange Loan, Edinburgh. (MD 10/01)

BOWELL, Ernest W.W.

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Published a number of articles on Lepidoptera and two on Coleoptera: 'Agrilus sinuatus in the New Forest' (Entomologist's Rec.J.Var., 2, 1891, 112) and 'Coleoptera in Herefordshire' (ibid, 3, 1892, 86). The New Forest Agrilus are now in the HDO (Smith 1986,105) and the second is a list of Longicornia only. Bowell gives his address at these times as Wadham College, Oxford, and Staplehurst, Kent. (MD 10/01)

BOUSKELL, Frank

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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

BOUCHARD, Peter

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Notes in the Ent.Ann., 1857, 16,  and 1860, 5,  state that Bouchard 'Collects for entomologists and sells'. His address is given as Marling Pitts Cottage, Sutton, Surrey.

BOSWELL (SYME), John Thomas

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At one time known as Boswell Syme. Born in Edinburgh and educated as a Civil Engineer, but gave this up after a time to become a botanist, a subject on which he lectured at the Charing Cross and Middlesex Hospitals. Well known as the concluder of Sowerby's English Botany. On the death of a relative in about 1868 he succeeded to the family estate at Balmuto and it was at this time that he dropped the name Syme.