Oliver Bodington

Oliver Eaton Bodington (1859 – 1936), barrister at law of the Inner Temple, Licensee en Droit, University of Paris, Member of the United States Federal Bar and President of the British Chamber of Commerce, was born March 6, 1859 in Kingsford, Staffordshire, the son of George Fowler Bodington (September 22, 1829 - May 8, 1902), a physician, and his wife Caroline Mary Eaton (born 1825). He was baptised on Mary 4, 1859 in Kenilworth, Warwickshire. Bodington attended the Giggleswick School and graduated from the University of London (1878). In 1885 he lived at Ashford House, Kingswinford, near Dudley. He was known for a Paris-based legal practice and from his office at 6 Blve. Des Capuchins, he specialized in international law and practice concerning domicile, marriage, inheritance, wills and foreign companies and firms doing business in Paris.

Bodington was the grandson of British physician George Bodington and one of eight children of George Fowler Bodington. G. F. Bodington was a British physician who rose to the position of Medical Superintendent of the Provincial Asylum for the Insane in New Westminster, British Columbia. Oliver Bodington’s mother having died, his father remarried; his second wife, Alice Brooke Bodington (1840-1897) became a leading researcher and writer in the field of biology and evolution. Alice Bodington was a frequent contributor to scholarly journals including “The American Naturalist”.

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