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John Laurens Bicknell

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English solicitor and author

John Bicknell, 1845 lithograph

John Laurens Bicknell (c.1786 – 3 August 1845[1]) was an Englishsolicitor and author.[2] He was elected aFellow of the Royal Society in 1821.[3]

Life

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He was the son ofJohn Bicknell and his wifeSabrina Sidney.[4] His name commemoratedJohn Laurens, his father's friend, who died in 1782.[5] He was educated atCharles Burney's school, where his mother worked, having been left little to live on when his father died in 1787.[2][4]

In a successful legal career, Bicknell became solicitor to the Admiralty.[6] He wasSir John Soane's solicitor from 1828, and an original trustee of theSoane Museum.[7] He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and of theSociety of Antiquaries of London, and died atDover on 3 August 1845, aged 59.[8]

Works

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  • A Brief Vindication of the legality of the late proceedings against George Wilson, the Blackheath Pedestrian (1815), onGeorge Wilson the racewalker[9]
  • The Modern Church; a satirical poem (1820)[10]
  • Original Miscellanies, in prose and verse (1820)[11]
  • Psalms, selected for the service of the Church (2nd edition 1822)[12]
  • Reform in Parliament. a Letter to the Right Hon. George Tierney Suggesting a Practical and Constitutional Mode of Securing Purity of Election (1823)[13]
  • The Trial: a Serious Drama, by William Shakspeare and John Milton (undated)[14]

Family

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Bicknell married in 1809 Jane Willmott, eldest daughter of Thomas Willmott, atShoreham, Kent.[15]

References

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  1. ^Wendy Moore (2013).How to Create the Perfect Wife. Basic Books. p. 274.ISBN 978-0-465-06574-5.
  2. ^abJames Marshall Osborn; René Wellek; Álvaro Ribeiro (1979).Evidence in Literary Scholarship: Essays in memory of James Marshall Osborn. Clarendon Press. p. 305.ISBN 978-0-19-812612-6.
  3. ^William White (1913).Notes & Queries. Oxford University Press. p. 470.
  4. ^abMartin Gayford (25 February 2009).Constable In Love: Love, Landscape, Money and the Making of a Great Painter. Penguin Books Limited. pp. 60–1.ISBN 978-0-14-191267-7.
  5. ^Wendy Moore (7 February 2013).How to Create the Perfect Wife. Orion. p. 193.ISBN 978-0-297-86379-3.
  6. ^Martin Gayford (25 February 2009).Constable in Love: Love, Landscape, Money and the Making of a Great Painter. Penguin Books Limited. p. 337.ISBN 978-0-14-191267-7.
  7. ^Gillian Darley (1999).John Soane: An Accidental Romantic. Yale University Press. p. 305.ISBN 978-0-300-08695-9.
  8. ^The Gentleman's Magazine. W. Pickering. 1845. p. 323.
  9. ^The Antijacobin Review and True Churchman's Magazine. C. Cradock. 1815. p. 567.
  10. ^John Laurens Bicknell (1820).The Modern Church; a satirical poem.
  11. ^John Laurens Bicknell (1820).Original Miscellanies, in prose and verse. T. Cadell & W. Davies.
  12. ^John Laurens Bicknell (1822).Psalms, selected for the service of the Church.
  13. ^Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates. W. Blackwood and sons. 1867. p. 514.
  14. ^The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of Rare, Curious, and Useful Books, Published in Or Relating to Great Britain and Ireland, from the Invention of Printing... George Bell & Sons. 1863. p. 2333.
  15. ^John Aikin (1809).The Athenaeum: A Magazine of Literary and Miscellaneous Information. Longmans, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. p. 178.
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