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Authorised form of nameBosville; William (1745 - 1813)
Dates1745 - 1813
Date of birth21 July 1745
Place of deathHis home in Welbeck Street, London
Date of death16 December 1813
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Chancel of St Giles-in-the-Fields, London
ActivityEducation:
Harrow School
Career:
Commission in the Coldstream Guards (1761); Lieutenant (1769); served during the American rebellion; retired from the Army (1779); was a great friend of John Horne Tooke
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election07/06/1792
RelationshipsEldest son of Godfrey Bosvilleof Gunthwaite and his wife Diana, daughter of Sir William Wentworth
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
CodeNA5582
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1792/05Bosville, William: certificate of election to the Royal Society
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