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DR. HERBERT BOLTON, director of the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery from 1898 until 1930, died on January 18 at Reading, whence he retired in 1931. Dr. Bolton was born at Bacup, Lancashire, in 1863 and started life as a boy in the mills. He applied himself to the rigid discipline of self-education through the medium of the old-fashioned night schools, and eventually proceeded to the Royal College of Science, South Kensington, where he was a fellow student with H. G. Wells and Morley Davies. He afterwards went to Owens College, Manchester, and in 1890 was appointed to an assistant keepership in the Manchester Museum.
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WALLIS, F. Dr. Herbert Bolton. Nature 137, 263–264 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137263a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/137263a0