Amalric-Frédéric Buscarlet

Amalric-Frédéric Buscarlet (1836–1928). Photographic portrait by Francis de Jongh in 1907

Amalric-Frédéric Buscarlet (1836 in Nice – 19 February 1928 in Pau) worked in Italy, Switzerland and France as a minister of the Church of Scotland.

Biography A branch of the Buscarlet family, originating from Millau in Rouergue Aveyron, France, settled in Geneva during the 18th century. Marc, a glovemaker, came to Geneva in about 1776 and founded the present family line. was son of Jules-[Léonard] (1807–1882), who in 1834 married Frances Eliza, daughter of Robert Bowen of Bristol, in Florence. Having studied theology in Geneva, Jules was ordained minister in 1833 and worked in Florence (1834), in Nice (1835) at the mission of the Genevan Evangelical Society in Pau (Basses-Pyrénées, France), then at the Free Church of Pau (1838–1849), finally in Paris (1849–1858).