McGill Library
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Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Boodle, Richard William, approximately 1850-1918
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Description area
Dates of existence
approximately 1850-1918
History
Richard William Boodle was born about 1850, in Chilcompton, Somerset, England.
From 1863 to 1868, he attended Sherborne School in Dorset County, England, where he was a member of the 1st XV (rugby team) in 1868. He went on to Magdalen College in Oxford where he studied classics (1872) and history (1873). From 1886 to 1890 he was the librarian of the Fraser Institute in Montreal, Canada. From 1891-1892 and 1894-1902 he was an assistant at Birmingham Reference Library.
He died on November 17, 1918, in Birmingham, Warwicks, England after being knocked down by a tramcar.