Author: Bicknell, John Laurens
Biography:
BICKNELL, John Laurens (1785-1845: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born on 2 Feb. 1785 at London, the son of John Bicknell (“the elder,” author, with Thomas Day, of The Dying Negro, qq.v.) and Anna Sabrina (Sidney) Bicknell. He was baptised on 17 Mar. 1785 at St. Giles in the Fields, Holborn. He was a solicitor, and a Fellow of both the Royal Society and the Society of Antiquaries. He married Jane Willmott in Shoreham, Kent, on 28 Dec. 1808 and they had at least one child who survived him. Other publications include: A Brief Vindication of the Legality of the Proceedings against George Wilson, the Blackheath Pedestrian (London, 1816), Psalms, Selected for the Service of the Church (Greenwich, 1821), and Reform in Parliament: A Letter to the Rt. Hon. George Tierney (London, 1823). He died at London and was buried on 9 Aug. 1845 at Kensal Green cemetery. His will, proved 15 Aug. gives his address in 1845 at Abingdon Street, Westminster. (ancestry.co.uk 7 Mar. 2018, 24 Dec. 2024) SR