Beriah Botfield
| Beriah Botfield MP FRS, FSA, FRSUA | |||||||||||
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| Born | 1807 | ||||||||||
| Died | 1863 | ||||||||||
| Residence | 5 Grosvenor Square W [1862] | ||||||||||
| Occupation | political | ||||||||||
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Contents
Notes
Office Notes
ESL Council 1847-48 Member
ESL Council 1852-53 Member
ESL Council 1853-54 Member
ESL Council 1854-55 Member
ESL Council 1856-57 Member
ESL Council 1857-58 Vice President
ESL Council 1858-59 Vice President
ESL Council 1859-60 Vice President
ESL Council 1860-61 Vice President
ESL Council 1861-62 Vice President
ESL Council 1862-63 Vice President
House Notes
1847.05.13 Resolved that the following gentlemen be requested to allow their names to be put in nomination at the forthcoming Anniversary as Members of Council: Beriah Botfield Esq. MP, Sir Alex. Morison MD, Henry Hallam Esq., Colonel Skardon, Robert Ingham Esq., William Spence Esq., J.B. Jukes Esq.
1848.06.29 Resolved that the following gentlemen be recommended to the Anniversary Meeting as the retiring Members from the Council: William Aldam Esq., Samuel Duckworth Esq., Beriah Botfield Esq., MP, William Thiselton Dyer Esq., John Clendinning, MD, J. Beete Jukes Esq., M.A., Colonel Skardon
Notes From Elsewhere
Beriah Botfield (5 March 1807–7 August 1863) was a British Member of Parliament representing Ludlow in Shropshire. He was also a Conservative Party politician
Botfield was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in January 1839.[4] He was president of the British Archaeological Association
Member of the Athenaeum Club from 1847
Publications
External Publications
Beriah was a well known bibliographer who set up a private printing press at his home in Norton Hall, Northamptonshire. Among the works which he printed there was an anonymous Journal of a Tour through the Highlands of Scotland (1830). 'Stemmata Botevilliana.' (1843) was printed for a private collection, then much enlarged and presented to the general public in 1858, as an account of the family of Boteville or Botfield. The issue of Bibliotheca Hearniana—excerpts from the Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Heame (1848) was afterwards reprinted in the Reliquiæ Hearnianæ (1869 ed.)
