William Godwin's Diary

Bonney, John Augustus

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This person is mentioned in the diary a total of 15 times, and was a venue (V) 2 times.

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1795

4  January  1795 1  March  1795 21  July  1795 (V) 27  November  1795

1796

31  January  1796 17  February  1796 (V) 20  March  1796 19  June  1796

1798

8  April  1798 27  May  1798 29  July  1798 21  September  1798

1800

28  September  1800

1801

25  October  1801

1804

15  April  1804

  • Name: Bonney, John Augustus
  • Gender: Male
  • Birth Date:
  • Death Date: 30  December  1813

John Bonney was a lawyer and a member of the Society for Constitutional Information. He was a longtime friend and supporter of John Horne Tooke and was arrested with him on a charge of high treason on 16 May 1794. He was later discharged after the acquittal of Tooke, Hardy and Thelwall. In 1796 he supported Tooke in his bid for the Westminster seat in parliament. He also supported Francis Burdett in the Middlesex elections of 1802 and 1804.

  • The European magazine, and London review, 65 (Jan-Jun 1814), p. 80.
  • J. Ann Hone For the Cause of Truth: Radicalism in London 1796-1821, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982), passim

This table lists the people this person is most frequently noted with in the diary.

Name Number of Meetings
Horne Tooke, John 11
Tooke, William 4
Burdett, Sir Francis (fifth baronet) 4
Vaughan, 3
Dyson, George 3
Scott, Thomas Hobbes 3
Frend, William 3
Warner, John 3
Miller, 3
Richter, John 2
Fergusson, Robert Cutlar 2
Scott, William 2
Bosville, William 2
Cline, Henry 1
Wildman, John 1
Lee, Richard ('Citizen') 1
Cooper, Thomas (Abthorpe) 1
Lewis, 1
White, 1
Montagu, Basil 1
Burdett, William Jones 1
Despard, Colonel Edward Marcus 1
Fenwick, John 1
1
Boddington, Samuel 1
Kyd, Stewart 1
Blake, Arthur 1
Harley, Jane Elizabeth (Lady Oxford, née Scott) 1
Banks, Thomas 1
Maxwell, William 1
Rogers, Samuel 1
Harwood, Colonel William 1
Parry, 1
Parry, Dr Caleb Hillier 1
Parry, Charles Henry 1
Gawler, Henry 1