John Edward Courtenay Bodley [SEP] date of death
John Edward Courtenay Bodley
John Edward Courtenay Bodley (6 June 1853 – 28 May 1925) was an English civil servant, known for his writings on France.
Life.
He was the son of the pottery owner Edward Fisher Bodley (1815–1881), and his wife Mary Ridgway Bodley, and brother of the pottery owner Edwin James Drew Bodley. He was educated at Mill Hill School and studied at Balliol College, Oxford, from 1873 to 1876. An active Freemason, he approached Oscar Wilde, then also an
under the name E. F. Bodley & Son, of Longport, from c. 1881 until 1898, with mark "E. F. B. & Son". Separately, the Bodley & Son company from 1875, successor to Bodley & Diggory, traded from the Hill Pottery, Burslem.
Family.
Bodley was survived by his second wife Mary Ridgeway, daughter of Joseph Ridgway. John Edward Courtenay Bodley was their son. A further son was Edward Ridgway. The third son Alfred Joseph Ridgway married in 1883 Mary Eleanor Reade, daughter