Jacob Boys
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| Born | 1796 | ||||||||
| Died | 1884 | ||||||||
| Residence | Grand Parade, Brighton | ||||||||
| Occupation | legal | ||||||||
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Jacob Boys (1796-1884) was born at Ashcombe in Lewes St Anne Without, almost certainly the son of John Boys and his wife Charlotte, five of whose children had been baptised at the Lewes Unitarian Meeting between 1786 and 1793. In 1823 Boys, then of Ashcombe, entered a seven-year partnership as a solicitor with John Webb Woollgar of The Cliffe, Lewes (HIL 1/1), but was in practice in Brighton in 1834 (PAR 372/32/4/6) and by 1838 had joined forces with Charles Bellingham (see above). He maintained his links with Lewes, becoming a trustee of the Westgate Meeting in 1836, a position from which he retired in 1874 (NU 1/9/14). In every available census he was enumerated at either 60 or 59 Grand Parade, Brighton, which was possibly the same house; the property was sold by his executors to Brighton Corporation for the site of the Brighton School of Art (R/C/4/92/1). Boys's first wife, Harriet, was living with him in 1841 and 1851; in 1861, at Kensington, he married Elizabeth Barrack, almost 30 years his junior; by 1881 the couple had at least two daughters. Boys died at 59 Grand Parade on 16 March 1883 at the age of 87, and his will was proved by his nephew Charles Leeson Prince of Uckfield, surgeon, Henry Perceval Hart of Lewes, esq and John Colbatch Clark of Brighton, solicitor, on 2 May 1883. The practice had certainly been formed by 1838 and was still subsisting in 1854 (PAR 269/4/2/4). Among many clients who can be identified perhaps the most valuable was Wigney's Brewery, of which both men were trustees, and to which Charles Bellingham lent £20,000 on mortgage in 1841 (SAS/N776-777). It seems likely that the practice passed to John Colbatch Clark, who acted as executor to the wills of both Boys and Bellingham.
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