John Laurens Bicknell

John Laurens Bicknell (c.1786–1845) was an English solicitor and author.[1] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1821.[2]

John Bicknell, 1845 lithograph

Life

He was the son of John Bicknell and his wife Sabrina Sidney.[3] His name commemorated John Laurens, his father's friend, who died in 1782.[4] He was educated at Charles Burney's school, where his mother worked, having been left little to live on when his father died in 1787.[1][3]

In a successful legal career, Bicknell became solicitor to the Admiralty.[5] He was Sir John Soane's solicitor from 1828, and an original trustee of the Soane Museum.[6] He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and of the Society of Antiquaries of London, and died at Dover on 3 August 1845, aged 59.[7]

Works
  • A Brief Vindication of the legality of the late proceedings against George Wilson, the Blackheath Pedestrian (1815), on George Wilson the racewalker[8]
  • The Modern Church; a satirical poem (1820)[9]
  • Original Miscellanies, in prose and verse (1820)[10]
  • Psalms, selected for the service of the Church (2nd edition 1822)[11]
  • Reform in Parliament. a Letter to the Right Hon. George Tierney Suggesting a Practical and Constitutional Mode of Securing Purity of Election (1823)[12]
  • The Trial: a Serious Drama, by William Shakspeare and John Milton (undated)[13]

Family

Bicknell married in 1809 Jane Willmott, eldest daughter of Thomas Willmott, at Shoreham, Kent.[14]

Notes
  1. James 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.
  2. William White (1913). Notes & Queries. Oxford University Press. p. 470.
  3. Martin 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.
  4. Wendy Moore (7 February 2013). How to Create the Perfect Wife. Orion. p. 193. ISBN 978-0-297-86379-3.
  5. 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.
  6. Gillian Darley (1999). John Soane: An Accidental Romantic. Yale University Press. p. 305. ISBN 978-0-300-08695-9.
  7. The Gentleman's Magazine. W. Pickering. 1845. p. 323.
  8. The Antijacobin Review and True Churchman's Magazine. C. Cradock. 1815. p. 567.
  9. John Laurens Bicknell (1820). The Modern Church; a satirical poem.
  10. John Laurens Bicknell (1820). Original Miscellanies, in prose and verse. T. Cadell & W. Davies.
  11. John Laurens Bicknell (1822). Psalms, selected for the service of the Church.
  12. Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates. W. Blackwood and sons. 1867. p. 514.
  13. 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.
  14. John Aikin (1809). The Athenaeum: A Magazine of Literary and Miscellaneous Information. Longmans, Hurst, Rees, and Orme. p. 178.
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