in 82 year.
BOYS, HENRY, _b._ 1806; composed a few glees and songs, best known
being _Friar Tuck_ a glee for 3 voices 1842. _d._ Margate 1851.
BOYS, REV. RICHARD (_brother of Edward Boys 1785–1866_). _b._ 1783;
ed. at King’s school Canterbury and C.C. coll. Cam., B.A. 1807,
M.A. 1818; chaplain at St. Helena 1811–29; P.C. of Platt, Kent
1849–54; P.C. of Loose, Kent 1854 to death; author of _Elements of
Christian knowledge_ 1838; _Primitive obliquities_ 1851. _d._
Loose 13 Feb. 1866.
BOYS, REV. THOMAS (_son of Thomas Boys of Sandwich, Kent, rear
admiral R.N._) _b._ Sandwich 1792; ed. at Tonbridge gr. sch. and
Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1813, M.A. 1817; attached to the military
chest in the Peninsula under Wellington 1813; wounded in 3 places
at battle of Toulouse 10 April 1814; teacher of Hebrew to Jews at
Hackney college 1830–2; professor of Hebrew at Missionary college
Islington 1836; Inc. of Holy Trinity, Hoxton 22 Feb. 1848 to
death; translated the Bible into Portugese 1813, his version has
been adopted both by Protestants and Roman Catholics; author of
_Tactica Sacra_ 1824; _Plain exposition of the New Testament_