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Authorised form of name	Bovey; Henry Taylor (1850 - 1912); engineer
Dates	1850 - 1912
Nationality	British
Place of birth	Devon, England
Date of birth	07 March 1850
Place of death	Eastbourne, East Sussex, England
Date of death	02/02/1912
Occupation	Engineer
Research field	Hydraulics
	Mechanics
	Engineering
Activity	Education: Queen's College, Cambridge (BA); McGill and Queen's University, Canada (MA; DCL) Career: Began working at the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board in Liverpool and became an assistant engineer; professor of civil engineering and applied mechanics at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and developed the Engineering Faculty (1877); Rector of Imperial College (1907-1909). Memberships: MICE; MIME; FRSC
Membership category	Fellow
Date of election	05/06/1902
Age at election	52
Proposer	William Grylls Adams; John Perry; Alfred George Greenhill; George Francis Fitzgerald; William Ramsay; William Mitchinson Hicks; James Thomson Bottomley; [William Thomson] Kelvin; Silvanus Phillips Thompson; George Carey Foster; William Henry Preece
Relationships	Parents: Mr. Edward Bovey, of Torquay. Spouse: Emily Jane Bonar, daughter of Mr. John Redpath, of Montreal. Children: Two sons and three daughters.
OtherInfo	Authored treatises on Hydraulics and on the Theory of Structures and Strength of Materials.
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Source	Sources: Bulloch's Roll; Grace's Guides [URL; https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Henry_Taylor_Bovey last accessed: 01/05/2024] Obituaries: Proc Roy Soc Series A 1913 vol 88 pp x-xi signed by W M H References: R W Home, 'The Royal Society and the Empire: the colonial and Commonwealth Fellowship. Part 2. After 1847' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 47-84 F C Moon, 'Robert Willis and Franz Reuleaux: pioneers in the theory of machines' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 209-230
Code	NA1341

Archives associated with this Fellow

RefNo	Title	Date
EC/1902/04	Bovey, Henry Taylor: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/Maull/000459	Bovey, Henry Taylor	nd
NLB/25/198	Copy letter from [Theodore E James], to Mr [Henry Taylor] Bovey, [Fellow of the Royal Society]	18 September 1902
NLB/26/363	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to, Henry Taylor Bovey, [Fellow of the Royal Society], Dean, McGill University, Montreal	6 March 1903
NLB/37/797	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to Harrison & Sons	15 May 1908
NLB/30/254	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Henry Taylor Bovey, Fellow of the Royal Society, McGill University, Montreal	20 February 1905
NLB/33/46	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Henry Taylor Bovey, Fellow of the Royal Society, care of A T Taylor, 21 Lyndhurst Road, Hampstead, N.W.	20 June 1906
NLB/38/434	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Henry Taylor Bovey, Fellow of the Royal Society, Hotel Curzon, Curzon Street, W.	4 August 1908
NLB/41/593	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Henry Taylor Bovey, Fellow of the Royal Society	20 January 1910
NLB/36/632	Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor Hugh Longbourne Callendar, Fellow of the Royal Society	22 November 1907
MC/27/170	Letter from [William Mitchinson] Hicks, Leamhurst, Ivy Park Road, Sheffield, to [Robert] Harrison, [Royal Society]	21 February 1912
MC/21/42	Letter from Henry [Taylor] Bovey, 46 Threadneedle Street, to Professor [Joseph] Larmor	17 June 1906
MC/21	Volume 21 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society	1906

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