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Boys, Rev. H.A.
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fl. 1870-1895
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Rev. H. A. Boys, M.A. appears to have been a member of the clergy based in the village of Easton Mauduit Northampton in the Midlands.
Mr. Boys was English Chaplain at Patras, in Greece, from 1870 to 1875. He was also a chaplain in Algiers.
He was involved in tracking rainfall which he contributed to surveys by the British Meteorological Office, and published several articles on flooding and droughts in the area, including "The Drought of 1895" and "The November Floods, 1894" in the Journal of the Northamptonshire Natural History Society & Field Club.
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Created 2015-10-13 by Anna St.Onge.
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- English
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- Latin
Sources
Rev. H.A. Boys of is listed as one of the reporters of rainfall in British Rainfall. London: Meteorological Office, 1895. See pages 193-194 of https://books.google.ca/books?id=KXYbAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
See: Journal of the Northamptonshire Natural History Society & Field Club, Volume 8, pages 23, 125, 217. https://books.google.ca/books?id=0Q47AQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Rev.+H.+A.+Boys%22+Northampton&source=gbs_navlinks_s .
See: The Foreign Church Chronicle and Review, volumes 13-14. p. 240. https://books.google.ca/books?id=5gsnAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22Rev.+H.+A.+Boys%22+Northampton&source=gbs_navlinks_s .