David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ This must suffice as to the Boileau representatives of the Huguenot refugee. As to other descendants, Anne Charlotte Boileau, eldest married daughter of Simeon, was married to Peter Fried, whose daughter, Henrietta, became Mrs. M‘Leod; and the grandson of the latter is Major-General James John M‘Leod Innes, who is decorated with the Victoria Cross. Bonne Boileau, another daughter of Simeon was the wife of Lestock Wilson, and her daughter, Alicia Magdalene (died 1834) , was married, in 1812, to the Hydrographer of the Admiralty, Rear-Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort, K.C.B. (born 1774, died 1857) . ”

“ The eldest brother was the late Thomas Ebenezer John Boileau, Esq., whose daughter, Ellen Leah, is the wife of Reginald John Graham, Esq. of Edmond Castle, near Carlisle, and Mother of Thomas Henry Boileau Graham and other children. ”

“ He was promoted to the rank of Major in 1875, and he was in the Afghan War of 1878-9, serving in both the Bazar Valley Expeditions, for which he received a medal and promotion to the brevet rank of Lieut.-Colonel, He is now in service as Lieut.-Colonel of the Bengal Staff Corps, and has the rank of Colonel in the army, dated 2nd March 1885. ”