Frederic Boase (7 October 1843 – 23 December 1916) was a Cornish[1][2] librarian and biographer.
He was born at Lariggan, Penzance, Cornwall to John Josias Arthur Boase (1801–1896), banker, and his wife, Charlotte née Scholl (1802–1873).
He was admitted a solicitor on 31 January 1867, and went into practice at Exmouth, Devon.
In 1877 he was appointed as librarian to the Incorporated Law Society, retiring in September 1903.
[5] The work eventually contained 30,000 biographies of people dying in the period 1851 to 1900.