Bicknell, John

Author: Bicknell, John

Biography:

BICKNELL, John (1746-87: ancestry.co.uk)

He is traditionally identified as co-author, with Thomas Day (q.v.), of The Dying Negro (1773), but the actual extent of his collaboration is unknown. He was baptised on 28 July 1746 at St. Andrew’s, Holborn, London, the son of Robert Bicknell of the Inner Temple, one of the Inns of the Court, and his wife Sarah. His mother’s former surname may have been Campbell. He seems to have been associated with two of the Inns of the Court: the Inner Temple and Lincoln’s Inn. On 16 Apr. 1784 he married Anna Sabrina Sidney (d 1843) in St. Philip’s church, Birmingham. They had two sons, John Laurens (q.v.) and Henry Edgeworth Bicknell. He died on 27 Mar. 1787 and was buried on 2 Apr. in the cemetery at St. Dunstan in the West, Fleet Street. (ancestry.co.uk 16 Feb. 2023; Aris’s Birmingham Gazette 19 Apr. 1784) SR

Books written (6):

The Dying Negro, a Poetical Epistle, Supposed to be Written by a Black, (Who Lately Shot Himself on Board a Vessel in the River Thames;) to His Intended Wife.

London: W. Flexney, 1773

The Dying Negro, a Poetical Epistle, from a Black, Who Shot Himself on Board a Vessel in the River Thames, to His Intended Wife.

2nd edn. London: W. Flexney, 1774

Jackson Bibliography of Romantic Poetry

Author: Bicknell, John

Biography:

Books written (6):

The Dying Negro, a Poetical Epistle, Supposed to be Written by a Black, (Who Lately Shot Himself on Board a Vessel in the River Thames;) to His Intended Wife.

The Dying Negro, a Poetical Epistle, from a Black, Who Shot Himself on Board a Vessel in the River Thames, to His Intended Wife.

The Dying Negro, a Poem.

The Dying Negro, a Poem.

The Dying Negro, a Poem. To which is added, a Fragment of a Letter on the Slavery of the Negroes.

The Dying Negro, a Poem.