Henry Samuel Boase

Henry Samuel Boase FRS (2 September 1799 – 5 May 1883) was a 19th-century British geologist and author.

Henry Boase, the son, was educated at Blundell's School in Tiverton and then in Dublin, where he studied chemistry.

He then worked for some years as a medical practitioner at Penzance; there geology engaged his particular attention, and he became secretary of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, and a committee member of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society.

He died at Seafield House on Magdalen Place in Dundee, close to the River Tay,[8] on 5 May 1883.

[11] His grandson Captain Edgar Leslie Boase was killed at High Wood in the First World War serving with the 4th battalion Black Watch.