Richard Boulton

Richard Boulton (fl. 1697–1724), was a physician and author from England.

Boulton was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, and for some time settled at Chester, was the author of a number of works on the medical and kindred sciences, including: Letter to Dr. Goodal occasioned by his Letter to Dr. Leigh, 1699. The appendix to the previous work had attacked Charles Leigh of Manchester. Thoughts concerning the Unusual Qualities of the Air, 1724.

Boulton fell out with Goodall after the Colbatch pamphlet. Goodall attacked Boulton in a pamphlet, under his footman's name, and asked James Yonge to attack Boulton's ally William Salmon.

In a letter to Sir Hans Sloane, Boulton states that he undertook to write an abridgment of Robert Boyle's works on account of "misfortunes still attending him"; and in another letter he asks Sloane for help. In the preface to the Vindication of the History of Magic he states that he had been for some time out of England.