Frederick Boyle (1841–1914) was an English author, journalist, barrister, and orchid fancier.
Early life and travels
editBorn in Stoke-on-Trent, Boyle was a nephew of Joseph Meyer. He matriculated in 1859 as an undergraduate at Brasenose College, Oxford,[1] and was called to the bar in 1866.[2] In 1863, he went to Sarawak with his brother: this visit provided material for a book,[3] and chapters in several other volumes of travel accounts from Asia, South Africa, and Central and South America.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13] In 1866 he donated to the British Museum a large number of archeological artefacts he had collected while travelling in Nicaragua.[14]
Writer
editHe also published a number of novels.[15][16][17][18][19][20][21] and a variety of articles in journals [22][23][24][25][26][27][28]
He described himself as a barrister and journalist in census records from 1871 to 1901; in 1911 he just did 'literary work'. He was a newspaper correspondent in the Russo-Turkish war,[29] and was a regular contributor to the Daily Telegraph, the Pall Mall Gazette and periodicals such as All the Year Round, Blackwood's, Cornhill, The Illustrated London News, Temple Bar, The New Review, and The Nineteenth Century. He collaborated with Ashmore Russan on three titles serialised in the Boy's Own Paper and later published as books.[30][31][32]
Later life
editIn later life he wrote a number of books about orchids, which he kept as a hobby.[33][34][35] He committed suicide in Bayswater Road, Westminster, London, in April, 1914, when 'much depressed'.[36]
References
edit- ^ s:Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Boyle, Frederick
- ^ s:Men-at-the-Bar/Boyle, Frederick
- ^ Adventures among the Dyaks of Borneo (1865)
- ^ A ride across a continent: a personal narrative of wanderings through Nicaragua and Costa Rica (1868)
- ^ To the Cape for diamonds (1873)
- ^ Through Fanteeland to Coomassie: a diary of the Ashantee expedition (1874)
- ^ Camp Notes (1874)
- ^ The Savage Life (1876)
- ^ Chronicles of No-man's land (1880)
- ^ Legends of my bungalow (1882)
- ^ Camp Notes (2nd ed., 1882)
- ^ On the borderland (1884)
- ^ From the Frontier (1894)
- ^ British Museum collection
- ^ Fools of Fortune, 1877
- ^ The Golden Prime, 1882
- ^ A Good Hater, 1885
- ^ An English Vendetta, 1887
- ^ Her Evil Genius, 1887 (there was an argument with Wilkie Collins about the title)
- ^ The Treasure of Thorburns, 1892
- ^ The Prophet John. A romance, 1894
- ^ Memoirs of Thomas Dodd, William Upcott, and George Stubbs, R.A 1879 The memoir of Thomas Dodd was first published in Temple Bar, July 1876 under title: The last of the grand school of connoisseurs; that of William Upcott in May 1876 under title: The father of fashion; and "George Stubbs," in December 1876 of the same magazine.
- ^ A Thanksgiving for Orchids, The Nineteenth Century, Oct 1892
- ^ The Gardening and Forestry Exhibition, The National Observer, 1893
- ^ A Fetish City, Tales from Blackwood Vol 9
- ^ Contemporary Human Gods, The New Review, 1897
- ^ The Capacity of Savages, Macmillan's Magazine, 1899
- ^ Our National Complexion, Cornhill Magazine, 1913
- ^ The narrative of an expelled correspondent. London: Richard Bentley & Son. 1877. Retrieved 26 July 2018 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ The Orchid Seekers (1893)
- ^ Through Forest and Plain (1895)
- ^ The Riders (1896)
- ^ About Orchids (1893)
- ^ The Woodlands Orchids (1901)
- ^ The culture of greenhouse orchids (1902)
- ^ Former War Correspondent's Death, Manchester Evening News, 2 May 1914
External links
edit- Works by Frederick Boyle at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Frederick Boyle at the Internet Archive
- Works by Frederick Boyle at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
