BOISSIER, Roger Humphrey CBE (1930-2018)

[Richard R]

From the Telegraph of 12 June 2018: BOISSIER Roger Humphrey, CBE, died peacefully on 6th June, aged 87 years. Beloved husband of Bridget and much loved father, grandfather and brother. A Service of Thanksgiving will be held at St Oswald’s Church, Kirkoswald, Cumbria on Tuesday 3rd July at 1 p.m.

He was s of Ernest Gabriel BOISSIER DSC (1886-1976), [?scion of the gentry family of that name], and Doris Mary BINGHAM (1891-1958). He m 1965 (Elizabeth) Bridget Rhoda (b 1937) d of Capt Sir Gerald Gordon LEY 3rd Bt TD (1902-80) and Rosemary Catherine MACPHERSON (1905-77), scion of the Scots gentry family of that name of Cluny Macpherson and of the BROOKE OF OAKLEY barons (ext 1944), and had a son and a dau.

[G. Willis]

Vol. 10 of the Visitation of England and Wales (1902) has Ernest Gabriel Boissier (b. 1886) as son of Rev. Frederick Scobell Boissier (b. 1854), vicar of Denby, Derbys. and headmaster of All Saints' Sch., Bloxham 1886-98. He was son of Rev. Peter Henry Boissier (1822-1880), curate of St Paul's, Clifton, who was son of Rev. Peter Edward Boissier (1791-1888), perpetual curate of St Peter's, Malvern Wells, Worcs. 1835-59.

Peter Edward Boissier is stated parenthetically to be son of John Lewis Boissier, of Bath, by his wife Dorothea Howard, dau. of Sir Paul Crosbie of Crosbie Park, co. Wicklow, 4th Bt, thus connecting these Boissiers to the families we treat here in some way. I don't have a copy of BLG 1965, but a search of that volume on Google books shows that Rev. Peter Henry Boissier (as above; alongside his role at St Paul's, Clifton is mentioned his being curate-in-charge at Barcheston, Warwicks.) appears in that pedigree, so we can safely conclude the connection you thought likely, Richard, is indeed the case.

[Richard R]

Many thanks for that additional information. I don't have my books to hand at that moment, so it's useful to see this.

[Richard R]

Now got my BLG (18th Edn) vol 1, page 74, col 1, which confirms all the above. Roger Boissier's BINGHAM mother is a scion of the gentry family of Bingham's Melcombe.