Background
George Boulger was the son of Edward Boulger Doctor of Medicine.
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George Boulger
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He was educated at Wellington College and Epsom College and the Middle Temple.
Career
Boulger wrote articles as the Kew Gardens Correspondent of The Times, and other works on botany and natural history. He was a cousin of the sculptor, George Blackall Simonds. At the age of 23 he became Professor of Natural History at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, and after holding the chair for 30 years he was appointed Honorary Professor.
He had also been Lecturer on Botany and Geology at the City of London College, since 1884, and at the Imperial Institute since 1917.
Boulger married Dorothy Henrietta Havers in 1879, the daughter of Thomas Havers, of Thelton Hall, Norfolk. She wrote children"s literature, under the pen name "Theo.
Gift," primarily stories for girls.
Membership
Professor Boulger was an active member of public associations for natural history and botany, the Selborne Society, the Essex Field Club, the South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies.
