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being the eldest son of Commodore William Boyes, R.N., 
Lieutenant-Governor of Greenwich Hospital. About 1755 
he was practising as a surgeon at Sandwich, where he devoted 
his spare hours to antiquarian researches, and is said to have 
spent much time investigating the antiquities of Richborough. 
In 1784 appeared his Testacea Uariora , published by George 
Walker. The first part of his Sandwich appeared in 1788 , 
but the second part was not issued until 1792 . He died of 
apoplexy, March 15 , 1803 , and was buried in St. Clement’s 
Church, Sandwich. Boys observed and added to the British 
list both the Kentish Plover and the Sandwich Tern at 
Sandwich, and sent specimens to Hr. Latham, who described 
them in his General Synopsis , naming the latter species Sterna 
boysii in his honour. 
1788-92. Collections | for an | History of Sandwich | in Kent. | with | 
Notices | of the other | Cinque Ports and Members, | and of 
Richborough. | by William Boys, Esq., E.A.S. | Canterbury : | 
Printed for the Author by Simmons, Kirkby and Jones, | 
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Collation — 1 vol. 4to, half-title, title, list of subscribers, pp. iv, 
list ph, etc., and preface pp. viii + pp. 1-877 + index 2 11. and errata 
1 1., with 52 pi. List of birds at pp. 849-54, with plates of Sand- 
wich Tern and Pigmy Curlew. 
Bradburn (J. Denham), viv. ? 
This author, a medical man, appears to have been President 
of the Coventry Ornithological Society. His work is quite 
of an avicultural order. 
[1891.] British Birds : their Successful Management in Captivity. 
London : n.d. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. iv un. -fpp. 120 + pp. iv un. 
Brand (John), 1668 (?)-1738 
The Rev. John Brand, who was educated at Edinburgh 
University, where he graduated M.A. in 1688 , was in 1694-95 
ordained Minister of Borrowstounness, Linlithgowshire, and 
in February of 1700-1 appointed by the General Assembly 
one of a deputation to visit Shetland, and, if convenient, 
