RS25 Boyes: Diaries and letters of G.T.W.B. Boyes The Royal Society of Tasmania Library Collection : University of Tasmania Library Special and Rare Collections
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2020-04-16 Generated by Access to Memory (AtoM) 2.6.1 2026-05-16 21:10 UTC English Boyes: Diaries and letters of G.T.W.B. Boyes RS25 1823-1858 13 diaries + microfilm & 3 files The Royal Society of Tasmania Library Collection : University of Tasmania Library Special and Rare Collections
Level 5, Morris Miller Library, Sandy Bay Campus, University of Tasmania Tasmania Australia 7005 Telephone: +613 6226 2243 Email: RSTLibrary.Collections@utas.edu.au http://www.utas.edu.au/library/research/special-and-rare-collections
George Thomas William Blamey Boyes

George Thomas William Blamey Boyes (1787-1853), public servant and diarist, was born probably at Stubbington, Hampshire, England, the son of George Thomas Boyes of Winchester. After education by various private tutors, in 1809 he took his first public post in the Commissariat Department of the army. From 1810 to 1815 he served under Wellington in the Peninsular war.In 1818 Boyes married Mary Ediss. In 1823 the Treasury appointed him deputy assistant commissary general in New South Wales. For more information see : http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/boyes-george-thomas-1817

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Collection consists of handwritten diaries and personal family correspondence. The Boyes diaries are detailed and include waspish comment on his contemporaries. His letters to his wife are also informative.

 Diaries

Presented to the Royal Society of Tasmania j by C.E. Boyes 1941-6.

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W. D. Hudspeth, Hudspeth Memorial Volume: An Introduction to the Diaries of the Rev. Robert Knopwood, A.M., and G.T.W.B. Boyes (Hob, 1954) - http://encore.lib.utas.edu.au/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1116016

R. Crossland, ‘The Boyes Diaries’, Papers and Proceedings (Tasmanian Historical Research Association), vol 3, no 3, May 1954, pp 46-51

The diaries and letters of G.T.W.B. Boyes. Volume 1. 1820-1832 / edited by Peter Chapman. http://encore.lib.utas.edu.au/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1162271

G. T. W. B. Boyes letters (State Library of New South Wales).

 Index to RS25

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