Demetrius Charles Boulger

Born on 14 July 1853, Demetrius Charles de Kavanagh Boulger was a British author who wrote extensively on India, China, Egypt, Turkey, and Central Asia. Reference works from his own era say he was educated at Kensington Grammar School and privately, and that he began contributing to leading journals on these international questions from 1876.

Boulger is especially remembered for books such as England and Russia in Central Asia, The Life of Yakub Beg of Kashgar, The Life of Gordon, The Life of Sir Stamford Raffles, The History of China, and The Story of India. He also helped found the Asiatic Quarterly Review with Sir Lepel Griffin in 1885 and edited it during its early years, showing how active he was not only as an author but also as a public commentator.

He died on 15 December 1928. Today, his work is mainly valued as a window into how a well-read British historian and journalist interpreted Asian history and imperial politics in his own time.