Bolton Corney

Bolton Corney (1784–1870) was an English army officer and official, known as a critic and antiquary.

Corney was born at Greenwich on 28 April 1784, and baptised in the parish church of St. Alphage.

Later he was at Greenwich, where he held the post of first clerk in the steward's department at the Royal Hospital.

He retired in 1845 or 1846, when he married, and moved to Barnes, Surrey, where he lived to his death on 30 August 1870, surrounded by his books.

He left an only son, Bolton Glanvill Corney, born 1851, of the Royal College of Surgeons, who was appointed government medical officer in Fiji.