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Edward John Bolus (born 5 May 1879) was a poet and writer, civil servant, and clergyman. He spent his civil service career in India, which appears prominently in his writing. ==Life== Born May 5, 1879 to Harriet S. Bolus and her husband Edward, a schoolmaster in Stoke Newington,〔William Baker, ''Merchant Taylors' School Register, 1871–1900'' (London: Clay, 1907), p. 368 https://archive.org/details/merchanttaylors00schogoog.〕 John studied at the Merchant Taylors' School,〔''The India List and Office List'' (London: India Office, 1905), p. 444.〕 before matriculating for a BA in Classics at The Queen's College, Oxford, in 1898.〔John Richard Magrath, ''The Queen's College'', 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon, 1921), II, 357, 376, https://archive.org/details/queenscollege02magr.〕 In 1902 he took the civil service examination, and in 14 November 1903 arrived in India, where he served in Bombay and in due course Puna as 'ass()t coll()r and mag()'.〔 By 1905 he was a second assistant in Land Revenue and General Administration,〔''The India List and Office List'' (London: India Office, 1905), p. 95.〕 and by 1 October 1915 an 'Assistant Collector', based in Puna.〔''Oral Evidence of Witnesses Examined by the Committee Appointed by the Government of Bombay to Consider and Report on the Question of the Extension of the Principles of Local Self-Government in Regard to Local Boards: Volume II. Bombay Presidency'' (Bombay: British India Press, 1916), p. 95. dspace.gipe.ac.in/jspui/bitstream/10973/3700/3/GIPE-059446.pdf.〕 He was mobilised in 1914, and his highest acting rank was Capt. 26th (Sind) Bn. I.D.F. India.〔 While in India, Bolus sustained his Classical interests and was an active member of the (apparently short-lived) Bombay Branch of the Classical Association, 'which owed its existence mainly to the enthusiasm of a learned Jesuit, Father Ailinger'.〔Samuel Townsend Sheppard, ''Bombay'' (Bombay: Times of India Press, 1932), p. 158.〕 On 6 April 1911 he gave a lecture to the Branch on 'Plato as a Literary Artist'.〔''Classical Association Proceedings'', 9 (January 1912), pp. 134, 200.〕 It was no doubt his activities here that gave rise to his 1920 publication ''Bombaia'', a long description of Bombay in Latin verse. Around 1926 Bolus left the Civil Service and in that year was ordained a priest in the Church of England.〔Lewis Sydney Steward O'Malley, ''The Indian Civil Service, 1601–1930'' (London: Murray, 1931), p. 284.〕 By 1930 he was priest to Pamber and Monk Sherborne (which were in the gift of The Queen's College and were merged in that year).〔''Crockford's Clerical Directory (1930), p. 125 (Bolus, Edward John ), https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YMgWAQAAIAAJ&dq; ''Hants & Berks Gazette'', 18 October 1930, http://www.pamberheatharchives.org.uk/events3.htm.〕 He remained the resident curate at Pamber Heath into the 1940s.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Events (1930-1969) )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edward John Bolus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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