Daniel Bolton

Daniel Bolton, born on or about 11 April 1793, at Norwich, Norfolk, England, was the second of thirteen children of John Bolton (1767–1851), an excise officer, and Mary Jodrell (1767–1851), a daughter of the Rev. Daniel Jodrell, Rector of Hingham, Norfolk, and Mary Breeze.{{cite web |title=England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975: Daniel Bolton |website=MyHeritage |date= |url=https://records.myheritagelibraryedition.com/research/record-30042-65498701/daniel-bolton-in-england-births-christenings |access-date= }}{{cite web |title=England Births and Christenings, 1538–1975: Daniel Bolton, 1793 |website=FamilySearch |date=5 February 2023 |url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J31K-7S9 |access-date=6 August 2023}}{{cite book |last=Bolton |title=The Rainbow: Various Pieces on Religious and Other Subjects |publisher=Binns & Goodwin |location=Bath |date=1860 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0N4HAAAAQAAJ}} Bolton's sister mentions dates and the names of a few family members; sufficient to identify the family: Mary, mother; Joanna Sophia Bolton (1798–1884), sister; and daughters of her sister Apollonia, Alice Rosa Muspratt (1844–1895), niece; Isabelle Diana Muspratt (c. 1839–1909), niece; Frances "Fanny" Laetitia Muspratt (1841–1900), niece.{{cite web |title=Mant Web Site |website=MyHeritage |date= |url=https://www.myheritage.com/site-family-tree-230806741/mant?newTree=&rootIndividualID=1500021 |access-date=5 August 2023}}{{cite book |last=Crisp |first=Frederick Arthur |title=Genealogical Memoranda Relating to the Family of Jodrell |publisher=Private |location= |date=1897 |page=11 |url=https://ia800205.us.archive.org/24/items/genealogicalmemo00cris/genealogicalmemo00cris.pdf}} He was baptised at the church of St Peter Parmentergate, Norwich on 14 April 1793.{{cite web |title=England Births and Christenings, 1538–1975: Daniel Bolton, 1793 |website=FamilySearch |date=5 February 2023 |url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J31K-7S9 |access-date=6 August 2023}}

Regarding the family's connection with Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, ancestral records indicate that Daniel Bolton's first cousin once removed, Thomas Bolton, had married Horatio's sister, Susannah Nelson, in 1780.

Daniel Bolton was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the Corps of Royal Engineers, Board of Ordnance, on 14 December 1811, and promoted lieutenant on 1 July 1812.{{rp|20}}

Bolton is said to have been "present, among other actions, at the siege and storm of St Sebastian".{{cite news |title=Obituary |work=Grahamstown Journal |date=22 May 1860 |url=https://www.eggsa.org/newspapers/index.php/grahamstown-journal/1627-grahamstown-journal-1860-2-april-to-june}} The Commanding Royal Engineer, Sir Richard Fletcher, was killed in the final assault of the fortress on 31 August; thereafter the siege was conducted by Lieutenant Colonel John Fox Burgoyne, RE, who was severely wounded in that effort which ended on 8 September 1813.{{cite journal |title=Memoirs: Obituary. Field Marshal Sir John Fox Burgoyne, Bart, GCB, 1782–1871 |journal=Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers |volume=33 |issue=1872 |date=1872 |pages=192–203 |url=https://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/pdf/10.1680/imotp.1872.22894 |doi=10.1680/imotp.1872.22894|url-access=subscription }}{{rp|193}} Elsewhere, Bolton is noted as serving at the Peninsula from October 1813 to the end of the war in 1814.{{cite book |last=Hart |first=Henry George |title=The New Army List |volume=25 |publisher=John Murray |location=London |date=January 1845 |page=190 |url=https://archive.org/details/newarmylist02unkngoog/page/n198/mode/2up}}{{rp|20}}

In May 1815, Bolton was lodged at Ghent, where Louis XVIII resided after quitting Paris in March, but as his superior had left without passing on instructions, he and his fellow engineers had little to do. Sir George Wood, commanding artillery, who had fallen in with them there, communicated their situation to Colonel Carmichael-Smyth. In consequence, Lieutenant John Sperling, RE, took charge from 1 April, with the two engineer officers, an assistant engineer and 250 men, to construct two earthen redoubts to defend the bridge over the river Scheldt and reinstate part of the city's misshapen rampart. The redoubts would burden the enemy with having to build a river crossing, as well as serve as a rallying point for troops retreating from the frontier. When Sperling departed on 10 April, Bolton took charge of the works and now 2000 workmen until the arrival of Captain Harris.{{cite book |last=Porter |first=Whitworth |title=History of the Corps of Royal Engineers |volume=1 |publisher=Longmans, Green, and Co. |location=London |date=1889 |pages=377 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PJQFAAAAMAAJ}}{{cite book |last=Sperling |first=John |title=Letters of an Officer of the Corps of Royal Engineers from the British Army in Holland, Belgium and France, to his Father from the Later End of 1813 to 1816 |publisher=James Nissbet & Co. |location=London |date=1872 |page= |url=https://archive.org/details/lettersanoffice00spergoog/page/n4/mode/2up}}{{rp|116–118}} The Battle of Waterloo was fought on 18 June 1815, some 43 miles away.

Following the Napoleonic Wars and agreements to the Treaty of Paris in November 1815, Bolton served with the army of occupation in France to 1818.{{rp|20}}

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Some five years after France, Bolton left London for Canada on 13 April 1823, landing at Quebec from the brig Susan on 23 May 1823.{{cite web |url=http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/Arrivals/1823a.shtml |title=Susan |website=The Ships List |access-date=21 April 2021}} Under Lieutenant Colonel Elias Walker Durnford, Commanding Royal Engineer, he carried on works from Quebec City to Kingston, Ontario, including Fort Wellington at Prescott.{{cite web |url=http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/passengerlists/1823/qjun01.htm|title=Quebec |website=The Ships List |access-date=21 April 2021}}{{cite web |url=http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/passengerlists/1823/lsjul03.shtml|title=Lady Sherbrooke |website=The Ships List |access-date=21 April 2021}}{{citation |last=Burns |first=Robert J |title=Fort Wellington: A Narrative and Structural History, 1812–38 |publisher= Parks Canada / Parcs Canada |date=1979 |url=http://www.parkscanadahistory.com/series/mrs/296.pdf}} In the course of the works he discovered a new species of trilobite in fossil limestone. It was described by John Jeremiah Bigsby who named it Paradoxus boltoni, "after its discoverer, Lieut. Bolton, Royal Engineers", in 1825. The specimen had been found at Lockport, New York.{{cite journal |last=Bigsby |first=John Jeremiah |title=Description of a New Species of Trilobite |journal=Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia |publisher=Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia |location=Philadelphia |volume=4 |issue=2 |pages=365–368 |date=1825 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/79352#page/379/mode/1up |via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}}

Home again in England, Daniel Bolton married Ann Lawrence Hawkes, daughter of the late Judge John Lawrance of New York, at St Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham, Warwickshire, on Wednesday, 23 February 1825.{{cite news |title=Married |work=Aris's Birmingham Gazette |date=28 February 1825 |page=3 |url= |via=The British Newspaper Archive}} Ann was the widow of George Wright Hawkes (1780–1821) of Dudley, England, who’d settled in New York City in 1798, and mother of Adelaide and Wootton Wright Hawkes.{{citation |title=Hawkes family papers, ca. 1820-ca. 1900 |url=https://bobcat.library.nyu.edu/permalink/f/22u4kq/nyu_aleph001722795 |via=New-York Historical Society Museum & Library}}{{cite magazine |last=Butterfield |first=Roger |title=Wellington's Long-lost Letters: How the McDougall Papers Were Saved |magazine=LIFE |volume=64 |issue=8 |date=23 February 1968 |pages=49–51 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c0oEAAAAMBAJ&dq=Wootton+Wright+Hawkes&pg=PA49}}{{cite book |last=Matthews |first=John |title=Matthews' American Armoury and Blue Book |location=London |publisher=John Matthews |date=1903 |page=117 |url=https://archive.org/details/matthewsamerican1903matt/page/116/mode/2up |via=Internet Archive}}

Soon after, on 7 June 1825, Bolton advanced to the rank of 2nd Captain. Their first child, John Lawrence Bolton, was born on 7 December 1825 at Drumcovitt House in the Parish of Banagher, County Londonderry, Ireland.

Drawn out of retirement, Lieutenant Colonel John By was, on 21 April 1826, appointed Commanding Engineer for the Rideau Canal; the 200 kilometre military canal to be cut through the Canadian wilderness to connect Montreal to Kingston by a more secure route in the event of another American invasion.{{cite web |last=Watson |first=Ken |title=Bye By: The Story of Lieutenant-Colonel John By, R.E. and his fall from grace |url=http://www.rideau-info.com/canal/tales/bye-by.html |website=Rideau Canal: National Historic Site · World Heritage Site |access-date=9 September 2021}} He landed at Quebec City on 30 May 1826, and headed on to Montreal a few days later to make a start on the canal project.

John Mactaggart, a civil engineer recommended by John Rennie for By's Clerk of Works,{{cite book |last=MacTaggart |first=John |title=Three Years in Canada: An Account of the Actual State of the Country in 1826-7-8, Comprehending its Resources, Productions, Improvements and Capabilities, and Including Sketches of the State of Society, Advice to Emigrants, &c. |volume=1 |publisher=Henry Colburn |location=London |date=1829 |url=https://archive.org/details/threeyearsincana01mact/page/n7/mode/2up}}{{rp|iv}} also joined the project. In October, Colonel Durnford at Montreal, recommended that By employ Bolton at Kingston, the canal's proposed terminal,{{cite book |title=Canada Canal Communication. Return to an Address to His Majesty, dated 4 February 1831;—for, Copies of the Correspondence Between the Treasury, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and the Ordnance, on the Canal Communication in Canada |publisher=The House of Commons |date=10 February 1831 |page=42 |url=https://static.torontopubliclibrary.ca/da/pdfs/37131055450084d.pdf}}{{rp|42}} and accordingly Bolton was assigned to By's staff. MacTaggart soon noted Bolton's keen scientific interests: "Boulder Stones of all sorts and sizes, are met with in abundance in Lower Canada: my worthy and scientific friend, Capt. Bolton, R.E. who examined these with the care of mineralogist, expressed himself astonished at the great variety and value. There is little lime, however, in any of them."{{cite book |last=MacTaggart |first=John |title=Three Years in Canada: An Account of the Actual State of the Country in 1826-7-8, Comprehending its Resources, Productions, Improvements and Capabilities, and Including Sketches of the State of Society, Advice to Emigrants, &c. |volume=2 |publisher=Henry Colburn |location=London |date=2010|orig-date=1829 |isbn=9780665368790 |url=https://archive.org/details/cihm_36879/page/n121/mode/2up}}{{rp|106}} Soon after the Natural History Society of Montreal (NHSM) was formed in May 1827, Bolton was elected a founding member on 27 August 1827, along with By, MacTaggart and others that year, and contributed to the Society's programme.{{cite thesis |last=Kuntz |first=Harry |title= Science Culture in English-speaking Montreal, 1815-1842 |type=DPhil |publisher=Concordia University, Montreal |pages=273, 348 |date=July 2010 |url=https://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/id/eprint/979513/1/NR71149.pdf?www.canadiana.org/ECO |access-date=14 July 2022}}

The Boltons' second child, Augusta Bolton, was born at Ontario in 1828.

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Dogged by the unrealistically low estimates formed during the canal's conception before By's appointment, and despite early least-sum estimates at its inception, it was an impossible task to calculate the exact cost to construct the Rideau Canal—"135 miles long, through an uncleared country, with eighteen or twenty miles of excavation, some of which was rock, and deep cutting, with forty-seven locks to surmount, a difference of level of 455 feet, with a variety of extensive dams and waste weirs necessary to regulate the spring torrents of the Rideau River, which is the outlet of several lakes."{{rp|111}} In 1832, the year of the completion of the canal, By was recalled to England to explain construction costs. Bolton took over as Superintending Royal Engineer and moved into By's former Bytown residence.

Bolton was promoted to captain in 10 January 1837.{{cite news |title=War-Office, 17th January 1837 |work=The London Gazette |issue=19458 |date=17 January 1837 |page=118 |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/19458/page/118}} Later that year, 27 September 1837, Charles Daubeny of Oxford University visited Bytown:

"Obtained from Captain Bolton a specimen of Sarracenia purpurea, which grows in the swamps adjacent. He also presented me with several minerals, obtained from boulders, broken during the formation of the Rideau Canal. The rocks found in situ at Bytown and neighbourhood, consist of that dark, fœtid, limestone, loaded with organic remains, which I saw at Quebec and Montreal. The Captain had found in it Trilobites of several species, both large and small, the Huron fossil (orthoceratite), turritellæ, encrinites, common and lily, and several other fossils. The organic remains are very abundant near the Chaudiere falls." {{cite book |last=Daubeny |first=Charles Giles Bridle |title=Journal of a Tour Through the United States, and in Canada, Made During the Years 1837–38 |publisher= |location=Oxford |date=1843 |pages= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4h8CAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22Obtained+from+Captain+Bolton+a+specimen+of+Sarracenia+purpurea%22&pg=PP5}}{{rp|32, 33}}

Bolton advanced to ranks of brevet major on 28 June 1838, major in the army on 3 July 1838{{cite news |title=War-Office, 3 July 1838 |work=The London Gazette |issue=19631 |date=3 July 1838 |page=1491 |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/19631/page/1491}} and lieutenant colonel on 29 March 1839 as Superintendent of the Canal. After more than sixteen-years of service in Canada, Bolton's assignment came to an end in 1843. He was succeeded by Major Francis Ringler Thomson, RE. The family's close connection with Bytown, drew some 300 of its oldest inhabitants to present Bolton and his family with a substantial farewell address on 9 August 1843.{{cite journal |title=Royal Engineers |journal=The Military Annual for 1844 |publisher=Henry Colburn |location=London |date=1844 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ITQFAAAAQAAJ}}{{rp|367–368}}

Back in England Bolton was assigned the role of Commanding Royal Engineer at Harwich, Essex, where in 1846 his office worked on the sea wall and other works.{{cite map |author=Daniel Bolton |title=Essex: Harwich. Section of Sea Wall & Side of Buttress |date=4 August 1846 |id=MFQ 1/41/23 |location=Harwich, Essex |url=https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C9092815 |via=The National Archives (United Kingdom)}}{{cite map |author=Daniel Bolton |title=Norfolk: Great Yarmouth. Map of the entrance to the River Yare, showing also the site of the Royal Arsenal. Reference notes |date=1846 |id=MFQ 1/43/3 |location=Great Yarmouth, Norfolk |url=https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C9092823 |via=The National Archives (United Kingdom)}}{{cite map |author=Daniel Bolton |title=Essex. (14-17 and 19) Trace from the Plan deposited with the Clerk of the Parish of St. Nicholas Harwich |location=Harwich, Essex |date=1846–49 |id=MFQ 1/41/14-19 |url=https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C9092811 |via=The National Archives (United Kingdom)}}

He was promoted to rank of lieutenant colonel on 16 November 1846{{cite news |title=Office of Ordnance, 16th November 1846. Corps of Royal Engineers |work=The London Gazette |issue=20667 |date=17 November 1846 |page=4662 |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/20667/page/4662}} and took on assignment as Commanding Royal Engineer to New Zealand, to relieve Major William Biddlecomb Marlow, CRE, with a detachment of 13 men of the Royal Sappers and Miners in company with Captain William Kenny, the Pioneer Company of the Royal New Zealand Fencible Corps and their families.{{cite news |title=Latest News |work=The Southern Cross and New Zealand Guardian |volume=3 |issue=111 |date=7 August 1847 |page=3 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DSC18470807.2.7}}

Following the 1845 battles at Te Kahika pā and Ōhaeawai pā in New Zealand, Marlow had sent drawings and descriptions of Ōhaeawai pā to England, enabling similar test sections of the pā to be erected on the left of the Chatham Lines in August, September, October and December 1846. Experiments in determining the best mode of breaching them by bags of powder were carried out.{{cite journal |last=Smith |first=Frederick |author-link=Frederick Smith (British Army officer, born 1790) |title=Petard |journal=Aide-mémoire to the Military Sciences |volume=3 |edition=2 |publisher=John Weale; Lockwood & Co. |location=London |date=1862 |pages=108–115 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.278558}}{{rp|111–113}}{{cite journal |last=Collinson |first=Thomas Bernard |author-link=Thomas Bernard Collinson |title=3. Breaching Stockades with Bags of Gunpowder at Chatham: Accompanied by the Records of Experiments made at the Royal Engineer Establishment at Chatham, in 1846-47 |journal=Papers on Subjects Connected with the Duties of the Corp of Royal Engineers |volume=New Series 4 |pages=51–53 |publisher=John Weale |location=London |date=1855 |url=https://www.nzsappers.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/PapersNSVol4.pdf}}{{cite news |title=Military Intelligence |work=The New-Zealander |volume=3 |issue=148 |date=30 October 1847 |page=3 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZ18471030.2.6}} Bolton and the Sappers with Kenny and the Fencibles, settled on board the Ramillies, departed the Port of Tilbury, River Thames, for New Zealand on 14 April 1847.

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After almost seven years abroad, in New Zealand, Bolton arrived home{{cite book |last=Bolton |title=The Rainbow: Various Pieces on Religious and Other Subjects |publisher=Binns & Goodwin |location=Bath |date=1860 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0N4HAAAAQAAJ}}{{rp|37}} to the reality of Britain and France's support for Turkey, and their declarations of war upon Russia in late March 1854. Bolton and his family were not unaffected.{{rp|58}}

Ann signed her will on 1 April 1854{{citation |title=Will of Ann Lawrence Bolton, Wife of Richmond, Surrey |date=12 December 1855 |url=https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D43732 |id=PROB 11/2223/231}} and appears to have left England soon after. As the Crimean campaign invasion force assembled at Varna, Turkey, New York's Evening Post of 5 September 1854 reported from that scene of death—11,000 men from cholera, and more from dysentery and typhus—{{cite journal |last=Merridew |first=C. G. |title=I. K. Brunel's Crimean War Hospital |journal=Anaesthesia and Intensive Care |volume=42 |issue=1 |date=1 July 2014 |pages=13–20 |doi=10.1177/0310057X1404201S02 |pmid=25196954 |doi-access=free }} that Ann Lawrance Bolton, wife of Colonel Bolton, and daughter of the late Judge John Lawrance of New York, had died at Varna on 2 August.{{cite news |title=Died |work=Evening Post (New York) |date=5 September 1854 |page=3 |url=http://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn83030390/1854-09-05/ed-1/seq-3/}} Some nine months later, on 25 May 1855, daughter Augusta married Lieutenant Edward Charles Acheson Gordon, RE, at Constantinople.{{cite book |last1=Skelton |first1=Constance Oliver |last2=Bulloch |first2=John Malcolm |title=Gordons under Arms: A Biographical Muster Roll of Officers named Gordon in the Navies and Armies of Britain, Europe, America and in the Jacobite Risings |location=Aberdeen |publisher=University of Aberdeen |date=1912 |page=94 |url=https://archive.org/details/gordonsunderarms00skel}}{{cite magazine |last=Urban |first=Sylvanus |title=Marriages |magazine=The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review |volume=44 |publisher=John Bowyer Nichols and Sons |location=London |date=July–December 1855 |page=191 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KwQJAAAAIAAJ}} Gordon had served in the campaign since the April 1854 start and, along with Lieutenant Pratt, RE, and a detachment of Sappers and Miners, had landed at Varna on 22 May 1854 from HMS Caradoc to build wooden piers for landing the troops, horses and ordnance in preparation for build-up of forces.{{cite book |last=Robinson |first=Frederick |title=Diary of the Crimean War |publisher=Richard Bentley |location=London |date=1856 |page=71 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rwfEZ514PlgC}}{{cite book |last=Connolly |first=Thomas William John |title=The History of the Royal Sappers and Miners: From the Formation of the Corps in March 1772, to the Date when Its Designation was Changed to that of Royal Engineers, in October 1856 |volume=2 |publisher=Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans |location=London |date=1857 |pages=182–183 |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/59260/59260-h/59260-h.htm}}{{cite book |last=Porter |first=Whitworth |title=History of the Corps of Royal Engineers |volume=1 |publisher=Longmans, Green, and Co. |location=London |date=1889 |pages=414, 416, 422 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PJQFAAAAMAAJ}} Augusta's brother, Captain John Bolton, RA, served in the Crimea from 12 April 1855 and took part in the battle of Sebastopol.

Following leave{{cite news |title=Military |work=Sun |location=London |date=11 December 1854 |page=1 |url= |via=British Newspaper Archive}} and promotion to brevet colonel on 20 June 1854,{{rp|20}} Bolton took assignment to the Cape of Good Hope, largely at the insistence of Sir George Grey, now Lieutenant Governor of Cape Colony. On 13 December he advanced to rank of colonel,{{rp|20}} to relieve Colonel Pennel Cole, RE, as Commanding Royal Engineer.

Stationed upon the frontier at Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, in early 1856 Bolton was elected a member of the newly formed Graham's Town Literary, Scientific and Medical Society{{cite news |title=Literary, Scientific and Medical Society |work=Grahamstown Journal |date=15 March 1856 |page=2}}—founders of the Albany Museum. Bolton advanced to the rank of major general on 20 June 1859,{{rp|20}} in succession to the late Major General Thomas Blanshard, CB.

Bolton carried on collecting botanical specimens throughout the district. During a long ride on 31 December 1859, several months after the Carrington Event, he was overcome by "sun-stroke" and nearly died. Having resigned his command, and whilst moving on toward Cape Town in the expectation of returning home to England, he suffered a second crippling apoplectic fit at Port Elizabeth and died on 16 May 1860, aged 66. In reporting the news to Sir William Hooker in July, Dr William Guybon Atherstone asserted that "he was a great lover of plants and an excellent geologist."{{cite letter |last=Atherstone |first=William Guybon |recipient=William Jackson Hooker |subject=Transportation of plants |language=English |date=16 July 1860 |location=Graham's Town |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew / JSTOR Global Plants |url=http://plants.jstor.org/visual/kadc7020 |id=KADC7020}}

Bolton was buried at St George's burying ground, Cape Town, with full military honours. The services attended by the Lieutenant Governor General Wynyard, CB, Commander of the Forces, Colonel Alexander Gordon, RE, the whole of the garrison troops, officers and men of HMS Brisk, and a large number of civilians and friends.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13042624 |title=Cape of Good Hope |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |volume=41 |issue=6886 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=3 July 1860 |access-date=21 April 2021 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}} The Grahamstown Journal wrote:

In May, 1855, Major-General Bolton came to this country, principally at the insistence of Sir George Grey, after a very short sojourn with his family in England; he was stationed, until with a few weeks of his death, upon the frontier, where his amiable qualities and intelligent mind won for him deservedly the admiration and esteem of all who had the good fortune to be thrown in contact with him. His memory will long hold a high place in the estimation of numerous friends who had the pleasure of cultivating his much-valued acquaintance.{{cite news |title=Obituary |work=Grahamstown Journal |date=22 May 1860 |url=https://www.eggsa.org/newspapers/index.php/grahamstown-journal/1627-grahamstown-journal-1860-2-april-to-june}}{{cite book |last=Bolton |title=The Rainbow: Various Pieces on Religious and Other Subjects |publisher=Binns & Goodwin |location=Bath |date=1860 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0N4HAAAAQAAJ}}{{rp|V-VI}}

That year, Bolton's sister anonymously published a book of personal poetry in his memory, called The Rainbow, which included some of his poems.

Thomas Bernard Collinson, RE, recalling his time in New Zealand, wrote:

My commanding officer was Colonel Bolton, a most kind hearted and agreeable man; who took more interest in his friends than his Engineer duties. Whenever he came to inspect my district, we passed most of our time fishing for shells, some of which, like other animals & plants in N.Z. were of special Biological interest. He could not however tell me the special scientific interest of the "Trochus Imperialis", he was satisfied in its being a beautiful & a valuable shell! and many a splendid specimen we fished up in Cook Strait.{{cite book |last=Collinson |first=Thomas Bernard |title=Seven Years Service on the Borders of the Pacific Ocean, 1843–1850. Written for the Information and Satisfaction of My Children |volume=1 |publisher=unpublished}}

Plant and animal species named after Daniel Bolton:

• Arctinurus boltoni (Paradoxus boltoni), a trilobite described and named by John Jeremiah Bigsby in 1825
• Myadora boltoni, a New Zealand mollusc described and named by Edgar Albert Smith in 1880{{cite journal |last=Smith |first=Edgar Albert |author-link=Edgar Albert Smith |title=4. On the Genus Myodora of Gray: 18. Myodora boltoni, sp. nov. |journal=Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London for the Year 1880 |volume= |issue= |publisher=Messrs. Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer |location=London |date=1880 |pages=585–587 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28522776#page/719/mode/1up |via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}}
• Leioproctus boltoni, a New Zealand bee described and named Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell in 1904{{cite journal |last=Cockerell |first=Theodore Dru Alison |author-link=Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell |title=XXIX.—New and Little-known Bees in the Collection of the British Museum: Leioproctus Boltoni, sp. n. |journal=The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Including Zoology, Botany, and Geology |language=English |volume=14 |issue=81 |publisher=Taylor and Francis |location=London |date=1904 |pages=203–208 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27733930#page/221/mode/1up |doi=10.1080/03745480409442994|via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}}
• Asplenium boltonii, an African fern collected at Grahamstown, Cape of Good Hope, named by Hooker{{cite book |last1=Hooker |first1=William Jackson |last2=Baker |first2=John Gilbert

|title=Synopsis filicum; or, A synopsis of all known ferns, including the Osmundaceæ, Schizæsveæ, Marattiaceæ, and Ophioglossaceæ (chiefly derived from the Kew herbarium) |publisher=Robert Hardwicke |location=London |date=1868 |volume=copy 1 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/73627#page/9/mode/1up | via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}}

• Bonatea boltonii, a southern African orchid named by William Henry Harvey 1860{{cite journal |last=Bolus |first=Harry |author-link=Harry Bolus |title=A List of published Species of Cape Orchideæ |journal=Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society |language=English |volume=19 |issue=122 |pages=335–347 |date=November 1882 |doi=10.1111/j.1095-8339.1882.tb00378.x |url=https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8339.1882.tb00378.x}}

He is remembered in Ottawa in Bolton Street{{cite web |title=Toponymy / Toponymie |website=Ottawa Lowertown |url=https://lowertownottawa.ca/histories/feature3.php |access-date=19 July 2022}}{{cite web |title=Bolton Street |website=Veterans Affairs Canada |date=2022 |url=https://www.veterans.gc.ca/en/remembrance/memorials/national-inventory-canadian-memorials/details/8379}} and Major's Hill Park, a prominent downtown park in Ottawa; site of the former residence of Lieutenant Colonel John By, and Major Daniel Bolton and his family.{{cite thesis |last=Zvonar |first=John E. |title=Major's Hill Park: A Study in Adaptive Rehabilitation |type=MLA |publisher=University of Manitoba |pages= |date=1988 |url=https://mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca/bitstream/handle/1993/22430/Zvonar_Majors_Hill.pdf;jsessionid=5A599170C49B6F8FEEBA27B81E9772FC?sequence=1 |access-date=27 February 2023 |isbn=9780315441590}}{{rp|49, 64}}

• {{cite journal |last=Bolton |first=Daniel |title=X. Account of the Dam Constructed Across the Waste Channel at Long Island, on the Rideau Canal, in 1836 |journal=Papers on Subjects Connected with the Duties of the Corps of Royal Engineers |volume=4 |publisher=John Weale |location=London |date=1840 |pages=131–135 |url=https://www.nzsappers.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/PapersVol4opt.pdf}}
• {{cite book |author=Anonymous: Daniel Bolton's sister |title=The Rainbow: Various Pieces on Religious and Other Subjects |publisher=Binns & Goodwin |location=Bath |date=1860 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0N4HAAAAQAAJ}}

• {{cite magazine |last=Godley |first=Eric John |title=Biographical Notes (52): Daniel Bolton (c. 1793–1860) |magazine=New Zealand Botanical Society Newsletter |issue=74 |pages=14–16 |publisher=New Zealand Botanical Society |location= |date=December 2003 |url=http://www.nzbotanicalsociety.org.nz/newsletter/NZBotSoc-2003-74.pdf}}
• {{cite web |last=Plug |first=C. |url=https://www.s2a3.org.za/bio/Biograph_final.php?serial=280 |title=Bolton, Maj-Gen Daniel (plant collection) |website=S2A3 Biographical Database of Southern African Science |date=2020 |access-date=21 April 2021}}
• {{cite journal |last=Tulloch |first= Judith |title=The Rideau Canal: Defence, Transport and Recreation |journal=History and Archaeology 50 |publisher=Parks Canada |date=1981 |via=digital edition, Friends of the Rideau, Smiths Falls, Ontario, 2009 |url=http://parkscanadahistory.com/series/mrs/177.pdf}}

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