Bolton Corney

Bolton Corney (1784–1870) was an English army officer and official, known as a critic and antiquary.

Life Corney was born at Greenwich on 28 April 1784, and baptised in the parish church of St. Alphage. He obtained in 1803 a commission as ensign in the 28th Foot. Later he was at Greenwich, where he held the post of first clerk in the steward's department at the Royal Hospital. He retired in 1845 or 1846, when he married, and moved to Barnes, Surrey, where he lived to his death on 30 August 1870, surrounded by his books.

Corney was a member of the council of the Shakspere Society and the Camden Society, and an auditor of the Royal Literary Fund. He engaged in controversy with Anthony Panizzi of the British Museum.