Barcroft Henry Thomas Boake (March 26, 1866 - found dead May 10, 1892) was an Australian poet.

Born in Sydney, Boake worked as a surveyor and a boundary rider in New South Wales and Queensland, but is best remembered for his poetry, a volume of which was published five years after his death. A sufferer of bipolar disorder, he is believed to have committed suicide. His body was found hanging by the neck eight days after he disappeared on May 2, 1892, from a stockwhip at Middle Harbour in Sydney.

Bibliography

• Where the Dead Men Lie: and Other Poems (1897)

External Links

• Barcroft Henry Boake
• Barcroft Boake (1866-1892)