Tradition holds that Emperor Vespasian maintained a residence in Bosham, although there is little evidence of this.
Harold Arthur Watkinson, 1st Viscount Watkinson, CH, PC (25 January 1910, in Walton on Thames – 19 December 1995, in Bosham) was a British businessman and Conservative politician.
Some of the many characters who are named after places in the vicinity of Emsworth include Lord Emsworth's heir, Viscount Bosham, Lady Anne Warblington, Lord Stockheath, the Duchess of Havant (in A Gentleman of Leisure), and Lord Arthur Hayling (in The Prince and Betty).
When Wilfrid arrived in Sussex, there was a small community of five or six Irish monks, led by Dicul in Bosham however it seems that they had made little headway in evangelising the local people.
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Herbert of Bosham's verbose biography of Becket has less historical value of than that of William Fitzstephen.