Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 26 - Boileau

2913760Protestant Exiles from France — Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 26 - BoileauDavid Carnegie Andrew Agnew

Boileau, Baronet. — John Peter Boileau, Esq. (born 1747, died 1837), fourth son of Simeon, married in 1790 Henrietta, daughter and co-heir of Rev. George Pollen. She was succeeded in her inheritance by their second son, George Pollen Boileau Pollen, Esq., of Little Bookham. The eldest son and heir was Sir John Peter Boileau, Bart, (so created, July 1838), of Tacolnestone Hall, Norfolk, and of Kettering Park in the same county. Sir John was a Fellow of the Royal Society, and Vice-President of the Society of Antiquaries, also President of the Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society. His services in the walks of science, antiquities, and agricultural improvement are detailed in The Register, 1869, vol. i. He was also a Director of the French Hospital in London. He was born on 2nd September 1794, and married in 1825 Lady Catherine Sarah Elliot, daughter of the Earl of Minto. Sir John died 9th March 1869. Lady Catherine Boileau had predeceased him (in 1862), and in her memory he added the Catherine Ward to the County Hospital. His successor, the eldest surviving son, is Sir Francis George Manningham Boileau, Bart.