Bolingbroke is the name of:
- Henry IV of England, also known as Henry of Bolingbroke
- Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678–1751), a Tory party Jacobite grandee and British statesman
- other Lords Bolingbroke bearing the title Earl of Bolingbroke or Viscount Bolingbroke
- Roger Bolingbroke (died 18 November 1441), a 15th-century English cleric, astronomer, astrologer, magister and alleged necromancer
Bolingbroke may be a place:
- Bolingbroke, Lincolnshire, Old Bolingbroke, a village where Bolingbroke Castle is located
- New Bolingbroke, Lincolnshire, a different village
- Bolingbroke, Georgia
- In fiction:
- Bolingbroke, Nova Scotia, fictional birthplace of Anne Shirley of the Anne of Green Gables series of books (based on New London, Prince Edward Island, the author's actual birthplace)
Bolingbroke may also mean:
- Bristol Bolingbroke, the initial name of the fighter project that became the Bristol Blenheim World War II fighter-bomber
- Bristol Fairchild Bolingbroke, a later wartime Canadian variant of the Blenheim
Famous quotes containing the word bolingbroke:
“Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.”
—Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke (1678–1751)
“Nations, like men, have their infancy.”
—Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke (1678–1751)