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Barcroft Boake

Barcroft Boake was born in 1866 at Balmain. Boake died in 1892 at Sydney. Barcroft Boake was recorded as poet.

Also recorded as Barcroft Henry Thomas Boake

Portrait of Australian poet Barcroft Boake

George Lambert · File:Where_the_Dead_Men_Lie.djvu · Public domain

Biography

Barcroft Boake was born in 1866 at Balmain.

Barcroft Boake died in 1892 at Sydney.

Barcroft Boake is recorded as poet.

The recorded working language is English.

Portraits of Australian poet Barcroft Boake and Matilda Kate Rout, retained in a locket by Rout, along with four lines of verse from Boake concealed behind his portrait, until her death.

Portraits of Australian poet Barcroft Boake and Matilda Kate Rout, retained in a locket by Rout, along with four lines of verse from Boake concealed behind his portrait, until her death.

Uncertain, possibly Barcroft Capel Boake · State Library of New South Wales

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  • Sydney
Death or burial
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  • Balmain

    Birth place

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