Account of the families of Boase or Bowes

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Messrs. Boase, Grenfell, Boase & Co., and J. J. A.'Boase
and his elder brother became at the same time partners
in the Tin smelting firm of Mr. George Grenfell, which then
becamo known as Grenfell and Boase. These two firms
were dissolved by mutual consent 21 Apl. 1838, the business
of the Penzance Union Bank being sold to the Western
District Banking Co., Mr. Boase remaining Manager of the
new Company. This arrangement however did not continue
rnanj 7 years as in 1844 the business was transferred to
Messrs. Ricketts, Bnthoven, Turner, Mason, and James, and
the old name of the Penzance Union Bank was restored ;
another rapid change followed, on the 25 Apl. 1846 the
firm became Messrs. Ricketts, Enthoven, and James, and in
Nov. 1846 the business was dissolved and wound up, and
Mr. Boase who had remained Manager throughout the
various changes finally retired from business.
Mr. Boase was an Assistant of the Old Corporation of
Penzance, which consisted of Aldermen and Assistants, and
when the Municipal Act came into operation in 1835 was
elected a member of the New Town Council for the West
Ward. At the first meeting of the Council he was chosen
one of the Aldermen for the same ward. He has been a
J. P. of the borough for a very long period, having been
appointed in 1836 jointly with Mr. Joseph Carne the first
borough magistrates. He was also in 1838 elected a
Guardian of the Poor for Penzance.
He succeeded the Rev. C. V. Le Grice as President of the
Gentlemen's News Room in January 1859, and held that
position until 1864, when it was converted into the Public
News Room of which Institution he was then elected
President. He was also connected with the Penzance
Public Library for many years and was elected President
in 1858 in the place of Joseph Carne, Esq. On his resig-
nation of the Presidency in 1874 he was unanimously
chosen an Honorary Life Member. Besides the foreign
residence before alluded to, Mr. Boase has travelled a great
deal, and a portion of his leisure time has been devoted to
writing an account of his journies. This work in MS.
occupies twelve volumes folio bound in Russia, and is illus-
trated by several thousand engravings. For an account of
bis contributions to various Literary Journals, see Bibl.
Cornub. i, 30.
For many years he was employed in numismatic researches,
and at one time was the owner of a cabinet consisting of
several thousand coins and medals both ancient and modern,
but in 1860 he parted with the greater portion of his collec-
tion which was sold by Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson in
London, on the fourth of April and the following days.
After the death of Mr. Joseph Carne 12 Oct. 1858, he at the
request of Miss Elizabeth Carne, consented to unite with
her in carrying on the Penzance Bank jointly with Mr.
Philip Marrack and Mr. Thomas Hacker Bodilly, and
having an equal share therein ; but the partnership was
dissolved on the part of Mr. Boase the 30 June 1859.
He m. 4 July 1827 at St. Clement's near Truro, Charlotte
second dau. of Robert Sholl by Mary Beard Milford. She
was b. Rosewin row, Truro, 30 Oct. 1802, and d. Alverton
Vean, Penzance, Wednesday 10 Sep. 1873, bur. the Cemetery
15 Sep. Of his issue we shall now speak of: fa) Charles
William, (i) George Clement, (c) Edward Ley, (rf) Frederic.
fa) Charles William Boase, eldest child of J. J. A. Boase,
was b. Chapel street, Penzance, 6 July 1828 and bapt. by
the Rev. W. W. Harvey at St Mary's 19 Sep. He was
educated at the Grammar School, Penzance, under the Rev.
Geo. Morris, and at the Grammar School, Truro, under the
Rev. Dr. Tancock 1841-46. Here he gained Lord Fal-
mouth's medals 1841 and 1842, Dr. Cardew's Exhibition
prize 1843, and Lord Falmouth's prize of books in the
same year. He next obtained the Elliot Scholarship of the
value of £30 per annum, which he held at Exeter College
for four years 1846-49. He matriculated at Oxford 4
June 1846, and in the following year gained an open
Scholarship at his College tenable for three years 1847-50.
He obtained a second class in the final classical school Trinity
term 1850, took his B.A. degree 18 May 1850, and his M.A.
27 Jan. 1853, was elected Cornish Fellow of his College 30
June 1850, Assistant Tutor 1853, Tutor 1855, Lecturer in
Hebrew 1859-69, and has been Librarian since 1868. He
was ordained 4 Mch. 1855, at Cuddesdon by Bishop S. Wil-
berforce, but has not proceeded to priest's orders. In
1851 he was proxime accessit for the Arnold Historical Essay
on " Carthage," and received a prize of books. He was Master
of the Schools 1856, Examiner in Modern History and Law
1857, 1858, 1865, 1866, 1867, 1869, 1870, in Final Classical
Examination for honors 1S62, 1863, in Modern History
1872 and 1873, for the Pusey and Ellerton Hebrew Scholar-
ship 1861, in the new Combined Examinations for the Pass
Schools 1874, 1875. He is known as being one of the joint
translators and editors of Ranke's History of England for
the Clarendon Press in 1875, and he has contributed
numerous articles to The Act/demy and other literary journals.
The account of the Deeds and Writs 1300-1836 in the
Dawson Collection in the Penzance Public Library was
compiled by C. W. Boase, and is reprinted from The
Cornish Telegraph in the Catalogue of the Books of the
Penzance Public Library (1874) pp. 336-43.
(bj George Clement Boase, second son of J. J. A. Boase
was b. Chapel street, Penzance. 20 Oct 1829, and privately
bapt. by the Rev. W. W. Harvey 18 Nov. He was educa-
ted at Regent's House Academy and the Grammar School
Penzance, and for a short time in 1844 at Bellevue House
Academy, Penryn. At the age of 15 in 1844 he entered as
a clerk in the Western District Banking Co. Penzance, and
continued there when that company was transferred to
Messrs. Ricketts, Enthoven, & Co. In 1847 he went to
London and engaged himself to Mr. Nehemiah Griffiths,
Ship and Insurance Broker, 2 White Hart Court, Lombard
street ; here he remained for more than three years, and at
the end of that period entered the employment of Messrs.
Ransom & Co. Bankers, 1 Pall Mall East. On the 29 Apl.
1854 he sailed from Liverpool in the " Great Britain " and
landed at Melbourne, Australia, where his first employment
was acting as a corrector of the press on " The Age " news-
paper ; after this he proceeded to the Gold Diggings at
Simpson's Ranges, but not meeting with much success and
the season proving too dry to admit of gold washing, he was
for some time engaged in a general store. On returning to
Melbourne he agreed with Thomas Darchy Esq. of Gelam
Station, Murrumbidgee River, New South Wales, to become
tutor to his family. Accordingly in August 1855 he took up
his residence on the Murrumbidgee, and here and on the
Lachlan river where Mr. Darchy also owned stations he con-
tinued to reside until 1864. During the long period of his
residence here his occupation was varied by his acting as
paid correspondent of the "Sydney Morning Herald" in
the Lower Murrumbidgee and Lower Lachlan districts.
In 1864 he sailed from Melbourne in the " Yorkshire "
Capt. Reynell, and landed at Falmouth in a pilot boat on
Midsummer eve in the same year. In 1865 he became
manager for Messrs. 11. M. Whitehead & Co. Australian
Provision Merchants, Loudon, with whom he remained until
Midsummer 1874, when he retired from business and has
since devoted his time to the collection of materials for the
second volume of the " Bibliotheca Cornubiensis, " the first
volume of which in connection with Mr. William Prideaux
Courtney he had brought out in Deo. 1873.
(c) Edward Ley Boase third son of J. J. A. Boase was
b. Chapel street, Penzance, 26 May 1836, bapt S. Mary's
by the Rev. Thomas Vyvyan 22 July, and was educated
at Bath under Mr. Shaw, and at Caen in Normandy in 1853.
He went to Australia with his brother G. C. Boase in 1854
and was first employed in an office in Hobart Town, Tas-
mania. After holding various situations for some years
both in Victoria and New South Wales, including taking