OBITUARY NOTICE. 



Mr C. B. P. Bosanquet of Rock. 

 By John Crawford Hodgson, F.S.A., Alnwick. 



In the Huguenot emigration which followed the Revocation 

 of the Edict of Nantes, two of the sons of Pierre Bosanquet 

 of Lunel in Languedoc made their escape. David Bosanquet 

 — one of the two — having tied first to Geneva, jeached England 

 in 1686, and in the following year was naturalised b}' warrant. 

 His great grandson, Mr Charles Bosanquet, a member of the 

 firm of Manning, Anderdon & Company, merchants in London, 

 having married a daughter of Mr Peter Holford of Weston- 

 birt, CO. (xloucester, a master in Chancery, acquired in 1804, 

 by arrangement with his wife's brother, Mr Robert Holford, 

 the beautiful estate of Rock, in the parish of Embleton, 

 Northumberland. Mr Charles Bosanquet died in 1850, being 

 succeeded by his eldest surviving son, the Rev. Robert William 

 Bosanquet, sometime rector of Bolingbroke in Lincolnshire, 

 who, dying in 1880, was succeeded by his eldest son, Mr 

 C. B. P. Bosanquet. 



Charles Bertie Pulleine Bosanquet was born 27th December 

 1834, educated at Eton and at Balliol College, Oxford, where 

 he matriculated 14th March 1853, and graduated B.A. in 

 1857, and M.A. in 1859. He was admitted to Lincoln's Inn 

 15th January 1858, and, after leaving Oxford, resided some 

 years in London, where he was one of the founders of the 

 Charity Organization Society, and its first secretary. He was 



