Daniel Bolton
Daniel Bolton | |
|---|---|
| Born | April 1793 Norwich, Norfolk, England |
| Died | 16 May 1860 (aged 67) Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope |
| Buried | St George's cemetery, Cape Town, South Africa |
| Allegiance | United Kingdom |
| Branch | Board of Ordnance British Army |
| Years of service | 1811–1860 |
| Rank | Major General |
| Service number | 459 |
| Unit | Corps of Royal Engineers |
| Commands | CRE, Harwich, 1846–47 CRE, New Zealand, 1847–53 CRE, Cape of Good Hope, 1855–60 |
| Campaigns | |
| Memorials | Major's Hill Park, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Peninsula and Waterloo Campaigns 1808–15 Memorial, Rochester Cathedral, Rochester, Kent |
| Spouse(s) |
Ann Lawrence Hawkes (widow)
(m. 1825–1854) |
| Children | John Lawrence Bolton Augusta Bolton |
| Other work | Member of the Executive Council, Province of New Ulster, New Zealand, 1851– Magistrate for the Islands of New Zealand, 1853 |
Major General Daniel Bolton (1793 – 1860) was an English military engineer of the Corps of Royal Engineers, who served in the Peninsular War (1813–1814), Netherlands Campaign (1814–1815), army of occupation in France (1815–1818), in Canada (1823–1843), particularly as superintending engineer in the construction of the Rideau Canal (1832–1843) and as Commanding Royal Engineer at Harwich (1846–1847), New Zealand (1847–1853) and Cape of Good Hope (1855–1860).
He also collected fossil, plant, insect and seashell specimens, particularly for the scientific collections under Sir William Jackson Hooker and Joseph Dalton Hooker at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, William Henry Harvey at the Herbarium, Trinity College Dublin, and Francis Walker at the British Museum.