Portrait of Charles Vernon Boys
Date
1935
Sitter
Charles Vernon Boys (1855 - 1944, British) , Physicist
Creator
Unknown, Photographer
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 207mm
width (print): 155 mm
width (print): 155 mm
Subject
Description
Formal half portrait of Charles Vernon Boys looking right of the camera as viewed. He wears a white shirt, a tie and a waistcoat underneath a suit jacket.
Possibly taken at a dinner in March 1935 at Jules Restaurant, Jermyn Street, on the occasion of Boys’ eightieth birthday and fortieth year of membership of the Royal Society Club.
Charles Vernon Boys (1855-1944) British physicist and inventor, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1888.
Possibly taken at a dinner in March 1935 at Jules Restaurant, Jermyn Street, on the occasion of Boys’ eightieth birthday and fortieth year of membership of the Royal Society Club.
Charles Vernon Boys (1855-1944) British physicist and inventor, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1888.
Object history
From MS/928, a collection of Boys’ papers donated to the Society by John V Boys in 2018.
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