James Bovell (1817–1880) was a prominent Canadian physician, microscopist, educator,[1] theologian and minister.
There, he was related to Sir Astley Cooper and had Richard Bright and Thomas Addison among his professors, and Robert Graves and William Stokes among his colleagues.
He studied at schools in Edinburgh and Glasgow and later was elected a member of the Royal College of Physicians.
He is known for his rejection of the Darwinian theory of evolution and Lyell's geology, believing instead in the Book of Genesis on the side of the early Louis Agassiz and John Hunter.
In a book published in 1860 he wrote to the Diocese of Huron "with the hope that the explanations given may remove erroneous impressions" at the Church in Canada.