John Theophilus Boileau

Major General John Theophilus Boileau FRS (26 May 1805 – 7 November 1886) was a British army engineer who worked in India.

The cost exceeded the estimates and when he wished to leave the East India Company on furlough in 1834, he was asked to pay thirty thousand rupees as outstanding expenses.

In 1839, Boileau was assigned to set up a magnetic observatory at Simla after being trained by Professor Humphrey Lloyd of Trinity College, Dublin.

He then moved to live at Ambala where weekend dinners included flute played by Boileau and piano by his wife Ann.

The family settled at Notting Hill and he began to work for the wives, widows, and children of soldiers then posted in large numbers in the Crimea.