St.John Boultbee (1843 - 1898)

Born 30 Apr 1843 in Bedford, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom

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Died 4 Sep 1898 at age 55 in Thanet, Kent, England, United Kingdom

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Biography

St. John Boultbee was born in 1843. He was M.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge. After tutoring and Army coaching posts, he became a schoolmaster in Tasmania. In 1875 he married Ada Fanny Barber (born 1853 and died 1933). They had three sons of whom the two younger were Army officers and both died of enteric fever while serving in South Africa during the second Boer War. St. John died in 1900. The sons were:- Arthur Watkin St. John born in 1876. He went out to Canada and became a rancher in Alberta. He married firstly, in 1906, Beatrice Alice Jowett in Calgary. She died in 1907. They had one daughter, Dorothy Grace who was born in 1907 and died in 1908. He married secondly Mabel Ellen Springer of Vancouver, British Columbia in 1912. From correspondence between him and Jack Gardner Boultbee of Canada he was still alive in 1940 and living in France, and with some evidence that he had been an Army officer in the 1914-18 War.

Archibald St. John was born in 1878 and died in 1905 at Bloemfontein, South Africa, while serving in the 81st Battery, Royal Field Artillery. He married Winifred Brand. There were no children.

Philip Duncan born in 1879. He did not marry and died in 1901 at Aliwal North, South Africa, while serving in the 22nd Imperial Yeomanry.

St John was a first class cricketer playing for Surrey on a small number of occasions during the 1867 season. He averaged 14.25 with the bat and 31.33 with the ball.

Sources

• Boultbee Family History, Patrick, Elizabeth & Ditch Boultbee, https://boultbee.info/bfh/v.htm#p60
• ESPNCricinfo : https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/st-john-boultbee-9886
• Wikipedia : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_John_Boultbee