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 would be done by, observing only, by way of application, that if both parties had fulfilled this duty Charles would not have lost his head. In the same year he attacked Butler’s 'Analogy’ [see ]. In 1739 he married Rebecca, daughter of Edmund Britiffe, of Hanworth. In 1743 he published his chief work, ‘An Answer to the Rev. Mr. Warburton's Divine Legation,' &c., in which he censures Warburton for making morality dependent upon the command of a superior being. In 1747 Mr. Harbord presented him to the living of Edgefield, Norfolk, in gratitude for his hindrance of a ‘ridiculous and pernicious match in the family.' His whole ecclesiastical income, however, was only 200l. a year. His health broke in 1750, and he died 23 Sept. 1751 at Norwich. He was a choleric but kindly man, a follower of Hoadly, a friend of Clarke, and a thorough whig. He left one son, Edmund Bott, afterwards of Christchurch, Hampshire, who was a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

 BOTT, THOMAS (1829–1870), china painter, was born near Kidderminster, and brought up to his father's business of making spade handles. Disliking this occupation he took to drawing. His first employment was in a glass factory. He went to Birmingham and managed to subsist for two or three years as a portrait painter. From Birmingham he went in 1852 to Worcester, and became one of the principal artists of the Royal Porcelain Works. ‘In that year Mr. Binns introduced what is known as the Worcester enamel. Mr. Bott made the first trials, and ultimately succeeded in giving the enamel the very important character it has since assumed. The queen and the late prince consort were great patrons of his work, which also was selected or presentation to the Princess of Wales, the Countess of Dudley, and the Countess Beauchamp, on their marriages. There is now in the South Kensington Museum one of his best works .... Mr. Bott was for many years a constant student at the School of Art, and gained many prizes’ (Worcester Journal, 17 Dec. 1870). Mr. Jewitt speaks of his work in terms of the highest praise (Hist. of Ceramic Art in Great Britain, pp. 143–4 and 150). A pair of his vases, he says, still in the hands of the Worcester Company, is valued at 1,500l. For his work in this ‘Worcester enamel’ Bott obtained distinction at Paris in 1855, and in London in 1862. He was attacked with paralysis in the beginning of 1869, and was unable to work from that time till his death on 13 Dec. 1870.

 BOTTETOURT, JOHN (d. 1324), baron and admiral, was governor of St. Brinvel's Castle and warden of the Forest of Dene. In 1294 he commanded the fleet supplied by Yarmouth and the neighbouring coast, and the next year burnt Cherbourg. He served in the expeditions of Edward I to Gascony and Scotland Having married Maud, sister and heiress of Otto, the son and heir of Beatrice Beauchamp, widow of William of Munchensi, lord of Edwardston, he came into the estates of his mother-in-law. In 1304 he received a commission under the great seal to hear and determine the causes of a violent quarrel between the mayor and burgesses of Bristol and Lord Thomas of Berkeley and his son Maurice. He was summoned to parliament from 1305 to 1324. He joined Guy Beauchamp, earl of Warwick, in carrying off Piers Gaveston from the custody of the Earl of Pembroke, and, in common with the other nobles concerned in the death of the favourite, made his peace with the king in 1313. The next year he commanded the fleet employed in the expedition against Scotland. When a new permanent council was appointed in 1318, his name was added in pariiament. to those already ageed upon. He died in 1324, leaving his grandson .lohn his heir, his son Thomas having died before him.

 BOTTISHAM or BOTTLESHAM, WILLIAM (d. 1400), bishop of Rochester, was a Dominican, D.D., and fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and, it would seem, a preacher in high repute with King Richard II. In 1332 he was resent at the council of Blackfriars in London, under the style of ‘episcopus Nanaten[sis],' but the designation is doubtful. Wilkins (Concilia Magnæ Britannicæ, iii. 158) proposed the emendation ‘Landaven[sis],’ which is impossible for chronological reasons. There is considerable confusion about the bishops of Nantes at this time (see, Vitæ Paparum Avenion. i. 943, Paris, 1693); and there is an interval between 1382 and 1384 during which Bottisham may have been bishop: but Dr. Stubbs (Registrum sacrum