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BORLASE, EDMUND.
Historian and Physician.
d. about 1682.

Admitted 27 August, 1638.

Third son of Sir John Borlase, of Dublin (Lord Justice in Ireland, 1640—3). He was educated at Dublin and Leyden, where he took the degree of Doctor in Physic in 1650. He subsequently practised in Chester, where he wrote a treatise on Latham Spa in Lancashire and the Cures Affected by it, published in 1670; but the work by which he is best known is The Reduction of Ireland to the Crown of England, and A Brief Account of the Rebellion of 1641, with the Original of the Universitie of Dublin and the Colledge of Physicians, published in London in 1675. In it he introduces an account of the diseases prevalent in Ireland, and their remedies. There is no record of Borlase's death, but he was alive in 1682.


BOSCAWEN, WILLIAM.
Author.
1752—1811.

Admitted 2 February, 1769.

Second son of General George Boscawen, and nephew of the Admiral Edward Boscawen. Born 28 Aug. 1752. He was educated at Eton and Oxford. He became a Commissioner in Bankruptcy, and in 1785 a Commissioner of the Victualling Office. He was the author of a work on Convictions on Penal Statutes (1792), but he found time to devote to literature, and published a Translation of Horace into English Verse (1793—8); The Progress of Satire (1798); and Original Poems (1801). He died 8 May, 1811.


BOVILL, Sir WILLIAM.
Judge.
1814—1873.

Admitted 21 January, 1834.

Second son of Benjamin Bovill of Milford Lane, St. Clement Danes. He was born at Allhallows Barking on 26 May, 1814. He studied the law first as a solicitor. He was called to the Bar 15 Jan. 1841. He was made a Queen's Counsel in 1855, and was returned for Guildford in 1857, and was for a short time Solicitor-General before his elevation to the Bench as Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, 1866. He was appointed Reader in 1859, and elected Treasurer of the Inn in 1865. He presided on the Bench at the first Tichborne Trial, and was a member of the Judicature Commission in 1873, He died at Kingston, 1 Nov. of that year.


BOWEN, CHARLES SYNGE CHRISTOPHER, first BARON BOWEN of COLWOOD.
Judge.
1835—1894.

Admitted 18 November, 1873.

Eldest son of the Rev. Christopher Bowen, of Winchester. He was educated at Balliol College, Oxford. He began his law studies at Lincoln's Inn, where he was admitted 16 April, 1857, and called to the Bar 26 Jan. 1861. He was a Justice of the Queen's Bench Division from 1879 to 1883, when he became a Judge of Appeal. In 1893 he was appointed a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, receiving at the same time a Life Peerage. He died 10 April, 1894.


BOWES, Sir JEROME.
Ambassador.
d. 1616.

Admitted 12 August, 1606.

His parentage is not given in the Register, but he belonged to a Durham family of repute. He served in the expedition to avenge the fall of Calais in 1558, but was subsequently expelled from Court for "slanderous speech"