John Theophilus Boileau
1805–86
Army officer and astronomer. Lieutenant in the Bengal Engineers, 1820; captain, 1846. Served as superintending engineer in the Public Department of Works for the North-West Provinces at Simla, and built three astronomical observatories. Retired with the rank of major-general in 1857. FRS 1840.
Sources
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 47 (1887): 133–5
The Times, 10 November 1886, p. 9
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