A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices/Bovill, Sir William
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BOVILL, Sir WILLIAM.
Judge.
1814—1873.
Admitted 21 January, 1834.
Second son of Benjamin Bovill of Milford Lane, St. Clement Danes. He was born at Allhallows Barking on 26 May, 1814. He studied the law first as a solicitor. He was called to the Bar 15 Jan. 1841. He was made a Queen's Counsel in 1855, and was returned for Guildford in 1857, and was for a short time Solicitor-General before his elevation to the Bench as Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, 1866. He was appointed Reader in 1859, and elected Treasurer of the Inn in 1865. He presided on the Bench at the first Tichborne Trial, and was a member of the Judicature Commission in 1873, He died at Kingston, 1 Nov. of that year.