Frederick Boyle (1841–1914) was an English author, journalist, barrister, and orchid fancier.
[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13] In 1866 he donated to the British Museum a large number of archeological artefacts he had collected while travelling in Nicaragua.
[15][16][17][18][19][20][21] and a variety of articles in journals [22][23][24][25][26][27][28] He described himself as a barrister and journalist in census records from 1871 to 1901; in 1911 he just did 'literary work'.
He was a newspaper correspondent in the Russo-Turkish war,[29] and was a regular contributor to the Daily Telegraph, the Pall Mall Gazette and periodicals such as All the Year Round, Blackwood's, Cornhill, The Illustrated London News, Temple Bar, The New Review, and The Nineteenth Century.
He collaborated with Ashmore Russan on three titles serialised in the Boy's Own Paper and later published as books.