# Protestant Exiles from France/Volume 2 - Book Third - Chapter 25 - Bosanquet

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​Bosanquet. — The Bosanquet family (see chapter xx.) have cultivated literature with no inconsiderable success. The British Museum Library Catalogue contains a long list of their publications. The Bosanquets of Rock, in Northumberland, are represented in three generations. Colonel Charles Bosanquet published a “Letter on West India Property” (1807), “Thoughts on Commerce and our Colonial Trade” (1808), and “Observations as to Bullion” (2nd edit., 1801). His eldest son and successor, Rev. Robert William Bosanquet, published “Objections to Dr. Pusey’s Sermon on the Holy Eucharist” (1843), reprinted at Edinburgh (1844), and “The Sacrament of Baptism” (1850). A younger son, Rev. George Henry Bosanquet, ​depicted “The Sorrows of Deafness,” printed in 1839. In the third generation, the heir-apparent, Charles Bertie Pulleine Bosanquet, Esq., Secretary of the Society for Organising Charitable Relief, published “London; some account of its growth, charitable agencies, and wants, with a clue map” (1868). We next come to Samuel Richard Bosanquet, Esq. of Dingestow; he was a thoughtful and serviceable observer of the times in which he lived. His first works were elucidatory of “The Tithes Commutation Act” (1837), “The Poor Law Amendment Act” (1839), “Rules of Pleading, and Logic” (1839). He also published “The Rights of the Poor and Christian Almsgiving Vindicated” (1841); “Principia, a series of Essays on the Principles of Evil manifesting themselves in the last times in religion, politics, and philosophy” (1843); “Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, its argument examined and exposed” (2nd edit, 1845); “The late Papal Agression,” and “The Sacramental and the Mediatorial Systems contrasted” (1851); “Excelsior” (1865); “The Bible, its superiority in character, composition, information, and authority to all uninspired literature” (1866); “Eirenicon” (1867); “The Successive Visions of the Cherubim, distinguished and newly interpreted, showing the progressive revelation through them of the Doctrine of the Incarnation, and of the Gospel of Redemption and Sanctification” (1871) [The preface opens thus:— “At the conclusion of the second edition of my ‘New System of Logic,’ I added that my next, and perhaps final work, would be a treatise on Exegesis, or the right method of interpreting Scripture. That treatise will take long time and much labour to complete. In the meantime, therefore, having had occasion to draw out into form my views respecting the cherubim, I think it right to publish them. And I put them forward partly as an example of my method of interpretation”]; “Interpretation, being rules and principles assisting to the reading and understanding of the Holy Scriptures” (1874); “An exposition of the first twenty chapters of Exodus; with an introduction on the nature and style of the Mosaic and Scripture Symbolism” (1876); “The Prophecies of Zechariah interpreted and applied” (1877); “The Interpreter; some selected interpretations of Scripture” (1878); “Hindu Chronology and Antediluvian History,” pp. 59 (1880).
James Whatman Bosanquet, an eminent London banker, and brother of the above, wrote on the Currency (1842), and on the Bank Charter (1857); he was also an author on Biblical researches — “Chronology of the Times of Daniel, Ezra, and Nehemiah” (1848); “The Fall of Nineveh and the Reign of Sennacherib chronologically considered” (1853); “Messiah the Prince, or the Inspiration of Daniel,” also “Sabbatical Years and Jubilees” (1866), and “Hebrew Chronology, from Solomon to the Birth of Christ” (1867). A third brother, William Henry Francis Bosanquet, published a translation from the Anglo-Saxon of Caedmon’s “Fall of Man” (i860).
Rev. Edwin Bosanquet, youngest son of the late William Bosanquet, Esq., and Charlotte Elizabeth Ives, is the author of “A Sermon before the University of Oxford, on Psalm ii. I” (1843), and “A Verbal Paraphrase of the Epistle to the Romans, with brief illustrations” (1840). But we must not omit the lady whom the Catalogue describes as Mary Bosanquet (afterwards De la Flechère), author of “An Aunt’s Advice to a Niece” (to which is added a correspondence with the late Rev. Dr. Dodd during his imprisonment), and “A Letter to the Rev. Mr. Wesley on the death of the Rev. Mr. Fletcher.”
Mary Bosanquet was the younger daughter of Samuel Bosanquet (the first) of Forest House; she was born on the 1st September 1739, at Leytonstone, in Essex. In 1763 she went to her native village, where she had some property. There she founded an Industrial Home, which was afterwards transferred to Cross Hall, Yorkshire. She was in later life married to the Rev. John William de la Flechère, vicar of Madeley. He died on 14th August 1785; she died at the age of seventy-five, on 9th December 1814.