A-Z of Entries

Barlow

BONNEY DIARY  15.11.1794 young Barlow

Nicholas Roe suggested this was possibly John Barlow of the London Corresponding Society. Another possibility would have been Rober Barlow attorney of 1, Little Conduit St 1780 voted Fox, / RB director of Westminster Fire Office of Bruton St 1783 voted Wray 1784 / RB auditor of Westminster Fire Office of 36 Bedford St Coct Gdn 1787, 1788  / Robert Francis s of Robert Barlow & Charlotte born 26.9.1786 bapt 5.11.1786 St Marylebone / RB Esq of Hanover Sq voted Townsend 1788 / RB attorney of 19 George St Hanover Sq 1790 / RB of Hanover Square…


Blake, Robert

BONNEY DIARY 9.7.1794 Mr Blake (junr?) of Essex St / 29.10.1794 Blake / 14.11.1794 young Blake

Ascribed by Nicholas Roe to "probably Arthur Blake".but given the Essex St address this was more likely Robert Blake (History of Parliament 1766-1823 MP for Arundel 1819-1823). He was not exactly young at 28 but his father,John in whose attorney's firm at 14 Essex St he was a partner was still alive (his will PCC 1803). Robert Blake's son John Goble Blake was still a baby (bapt 19.11.1793 St Clement Danes). His father John, or indeed Arthur Blake could have been the entry of 29.10.1794…


Bonney, John Augustus

GODWIN DIARY 4.1.1795 &c

John Augustus Bonney of Percy Street, Rathbone Place proposed 8,4.1791 by John Frost 2nded Joseph Adams. Born 1763 youngest son of Thomas Bonney rector of Ockham, Surrey 1710-1764 (son of Charles Bonney d.1744 woolstapler of Reading and his wife Elizabeth nee Armington d.1756) and Grace d.1776 dau of Chrstopher Key, receiver-general. Apprenticed 31.3.1779 to John Frost (DNB 1750-1842) attorney of St Pancras for 5 yrs premium £200. Married 23.9.1787 St Pancras Mary Johnson widow, wits Charles Tomkins, Tom Hague. She was probably born Mary Hague about 1762…


Bosville, William

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

 


Breillat

BONNEY DIARY: 13.11.1794 Brillat's boy

Thomas Breillat pumpmaker, 160 Shoreditch 1785-8, 85 Shoreditch 1789-91 (with partner Darling), Hackney Rd / Thomas born 7.3.1746/7 bapt 29.3.1747 Shoreditch of Peter Breillat & Mary (nee Dolhent) / Thomas Breillat bach = Shoreditch 6.7.1766 Ann Gray sp both of Norton Folgate banns wits Peter Breillat, Wm Burgess (but could find no record of any children) / will PCC 1781 Peter Breillat / Nat Arch HO 42/6/312 & 315 folios 800-1, 806-9 Thomas Breillat committed to Newgate by Shoreditch magistrates for haranguing a large crowd on the…


Brockbank, Joseph

Joseph Brockbank of Nicholas Lane proposed 1.6.1792 by John Augustus Bonney 2nded John Frost

BONNEY DIARY 25.11.1794  GODWIN DIARY 31.1.1796 Brockbank at Tooke's

son of Myles Brockbank of Whitehaven, Cumberland attorney of Kings Bench, articled to his father 18.1.1781 transferred to John Winter 7.4.1785 / 1791 Joseph Brockbank attorney of 24 Nicholas Lane, Lombard St / 1792 member of Socy for Improvement in Naval Architecture 1796 secretary / JB vs Earl of Thanet Chancery cases1811 & 1812 (Nat Arch C13/126/1, 1455/8, 138/20) / solicitor Lyons Inn 1818 voted Romilly &…


Bush

BONNEY DIARY Bush 10.11.1794 / 14.11.1794

GODWIN DIARY Bush 22.11.1794 at Tooke's trial / 8.3.1804 call on Bush, Doctors' Commons / 22.3.1804 letter from Bush

The Bush visiting Bonney in the Tower of London and at Tooke's trial could have been Atkinson Bush will PCC 1811 spirit merchant or his son Michael Bush will PCC 1820 attorney who both joined the Society for Constitutional Information in 1791. Another son of Atkinson Bush, James Bush 1764-1830 will PCC 1830 was a proctor at Doctors Commons (one of the Procurators General of the Arches Court of Canterbury) and he was…