Society of Constitutional Information

William Bosville of Maddock Street proposed Socy for Const Info 3.6.1791 by John Horne Tooke 2nded John Augustus Bonney. William Bosville DNB 1745-1813. Will PCC 1814 of Thorpe Hall Yorks. He died unmarried and his will mentioned no natural children but see Bosville, Misses.

BONNEY DIARY  14.11.1794 / 15.11.1794 / M Bosville 18.11.1794

1806 Bosville chair of Middlesex freeholders club, who resolved Mr Byng's letter was an insult and in violation of a pledge made in 1805 to celebrate the return of Burdett & Byng in 1802

BONNEY DIARY:  16.5.1794 Hudson printer, McManus his assistant dined with Bonney and John Miller, Bow Street officer (one of his arresting officers) at Kings Arms Tavern the day after his arrest

John Bonham junior of Hammersmith proposed 25.10.1793 by Charles Sinclair 2nded Thomas Holcroft. John Bonham was the oldest son of Francis Warren Bonham by his first wife Mary Ann Leslie, born about 1769 probably in Ireland and matric at Merton College Oxford 1785. F W Bonham Land Tax Hammersmith 1791-99, his will PCC 1810 of Bath.

GODWIN DIARY 4.1.1795 &c

SOCY for CONST INFO : George Bond Esq of the Temple proposed 7.2.1783 Alured Shove 2nded Samuel Shore. In 1792 he was a signatory to the Friends of the People and to the Friends of the Liberty of the Press. DNB 1750-1796. See Ride, Ann in Greater Soho dataset for more on his personal life.

GODWIN DIARY:  Bond 8.12.1790 at Holcroft's, with Fenwick and Bishop. May be George Bond as above, or the singer below if Bishop (QV) was the musician

Samuel Boddington proposed Socy for Const Info by Richard Price 19.3.1790 2nded Thomas Brand Hollis. West India merchant History of Parliament 1766-1843. See Godwin Diary website entry which I haven't examined though there is some uncertainty about distinguishing between Samuel and John Boddington.

John Blunt of Great Ayliff Street, Goodmans Fields proposed SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION 8.11.1782 by Thomas Hinton Burley Oldfield 2nded Joseph Brown.

SOCIETY FOR CONSTITUTIONAL INFORMATION: Joseph Benwell of Battersea proposed 10.9.1784 by Michael Pearson 2nded James West.

Thomas Bentley of Turnham Green DNB 1731-1780 founding member attended 19.5.1780 died 2.12.1780

Rev William Beville at Mr Barrell's Gt Queen St proposed 9.5.1783 by John Cartwright 2nded Jackson Barwis. Born 1755 Hempswell, Lincs, his mother Ann was a widow by 1774. Fellow of St Peter's Cambridge. In 1782 he published "Observations on Dr Johnson's Life of Hammond" in which he defended the poems of James Hammond DNB 1710-1742 against Samuel Johnson's dismissal. Hammond's poems had been written to Catherine Dashwood (d.1779) whose niece Ann had married John Cartwright in 1780, see note on p8 of Beville's pamphlet.