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 BOLTON, JAMES JAY (1824–1863), evangelical clergyman, was the fifth son of the Rev. Robert Bolton, rector of Christ-church, Pelham, U.S., his mother being a daughter of the Rev. William Jay of Bath. Bolton was born at Southdown College, near Weymouth, Dorsetshire, 11 Feb. 1824. His early years were spent at Henley-on-Thames, where his father was at the time minister of a dissenting chapel. At the age of twelve he went with his parents to America, where circumstances placed his father in charge of an episcopal congregation. He was educated at Dr. Muhlenburg's, College Point, New York, after staying for some time at Brook Farm, New Rochelle, and Pelham. Thence he returned to England and entered at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he obtained a scholarship in his first year, and took his degree in 1848. From 1849 to 1851 he was curate of Saffron Walden, Essex; afterwards he removed to St. Michael's, Chester Square, Pimlico, as curate to the Rev. J. H. Hamilton, and was appointed later to the incumbency of St. Paul's Episcopal Chapel. Kilburn. Here he married, 30 June 1853, Lydia Louisa, third daughter of the Rev. W. W. Pym, rector of Willian, Hertfordshire. Bolton died, aged 39, at the parsonage, Kilburn, 8 April 1863.

Of Bolton's sermons some were arranged chronologically by his brother, and published, with a brief memoir, three months after his death. A second series of 'Selected Sermons' was published in 1866. As a children's preacher Bolton has perhaps never been surpassed. He contributed largely to the 'Family Treasury,' the 'Sunday Scholars and Teachers' Magazine,' and juvenile publications of a kindred tone. He also published 'The Church Missionary Operations vindicated,' 1854; 'Faith's Report to Mourning Parents, or How it fares with Holy Children when they die,' 1855; 'Our Celestial Guest, or Stirring Thoughts about the Holy Spirit,' 1855; 'Beleaguered but Defiant, an exposition of a precious verse,' 1858; 'Life Lessons,' 1862; 'The Yoke lightened, an address to servants' (a posthumous publication), 1873.

 BOLTON, RICHARD (1570?–1648), lawyer, son of John Bolton, of Fenton, Staffordshire, was born about 1570. He practised for a time as a barrister in England, which he left for Ireland with the object, it has been alleged, of avoiding the results of a censure passed on him by the court of Star-chamber. At the close of 1604 he obtained employment as temporary recorder of Dublin. In the following year he was appointed recorder of that city, 'during good behaviour,' at an annual salary of 25l. Bolton was despatched in 1608 to London as law-agent to the municipality of Dublin in connection with suits relating to their customs and privileges. Sir Arthur Chichester, lord-deputy of Ireland, in a letter dated 15 Oct. 1608, commended Bolton to the Earl of Salisbury. Bolton was admitted to the Society of King's Inns, Dublin, in 1610. Through government influence he was elected in 1613, in opposition to the I Roman catholic candidate, one of the representatives of the city of Dublin in the parliament of which the noted Sir John Davies became the speaker. He resigned the recordership of Dublin in the same year. Bolton received knighthood in 1618 from Sir Oliver St. John, lord-deputy for Ireland. Under privy seal dated Westminster 31 Dec. 1618, and patent of the 10th of the ensuing February, Bolton was appointed solicitor-general for Ireland. In 1621 Bolton published at Dublin, in a folio volume, a selection of statutes passed in parliaments held in Ireland, under the title 'The Statutes of Ireland, beginning the third year of King Edward the Second, and continuing untill the end of the Parliament begunne in the eleventh year of the reign of our most gratious Soveraigne Lord King James and ended in the thirteenth year of his raigne of England, France, and Ireland. Newly perused and examined with the Parliament rolls; and divers statutes imprinted in this booke which were not formerly printed in the old booke.' Bolton dedicated this work to his benefactor, Lord-deputy Sir Oliver St. John, who had encouraged him to undertake it. Bolton became attorney-general to the Court of Wards at Dublin in 1622, and was appointed chief baron of the exchequer in Ireland in 1625. To his printed volume of the statutes an addition containing those of the tenth and eleventh year of Charles I was published in 1635. Bolton published in 1638, at Dublin, a folio volume with the following title: 'A Justice of the Peace for Ireland, consisting of two bookes. The first declaring th' exercise of that office by one or more Justices of Peace out of Session. The second setting forth the forme of proceeding in sessions and the matters to be enquired of and handled therein. Composed by Sir Richard Bolton, Knight, Chief Baron of His Majesties Court of 