Childhood and Family
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”.
Dr. and Mrs. Bodington removed to Canada in the year 1887. Others of the siblings of Oliver Bodington were a brother who lived at Plymouth, England, a brother who lived in England place not specified, a brother who was a physician serving on the Empress liners, a sister Miss Bodington of Winnipeg, a sister Mrs. Hamilton, of Winnipeg and two siblings who were at home at the time of Mrs. Bodington’s death in 1897: Winnie and an unnamed brother.
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