Palmer, Eve

Mrs. Bousfield was wife of Henry Brougham Bousfield, first Bishop of Pretoria. Henry Bousfield (1832-1902) graduated M.A. at Caius College, Cambridge, held the living at Foxcott, near Andover, and the position of Rural Dean, 1872-1878. In 1878 he sailed to Cape Colony, where he established the Anglican See of Pretoria.

From the guide to the Article concerning diary of Mrs. Bousfield, c1975, (The Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House)