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Autobiographical notes / by Charles Bonney

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Bonney, Charles, 1813-1897
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JAF  

BIO  

55  

AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOTES  

BY CHARLES BOHHEY  

(For Private Circulation Only)  

was born on the 31st of October 1813, and lived for the first  

twelve years of my life at Sandon, little village near Stafford  

in the valley of the Trent, of which my father the Rev. Geo. Bonney  

was vicar. My mother was the youngest daughter of the Reverend  

John Knight vicar of the adjoining parish of Millwich.  

was the youngest of the family, and, living in quiet  

village, four miles from any market town, had no companions of my  

own age, and my chaldhood was spent in comparative solitude. The  

quietude of the village was only disturbed by the occasional passing  

of stage Coach or travelling carriage; Sandon being situated on  

the main road between Liverpool and London.  

At an early age developed taste for mechanical employment  

and acquired some skill in doing ordinary repairs about the house, and  

at the turning lathe at which used to work before was ten years  

of age. This taste, which inherited from my father, who was skilled  

mechanic, has remained with me through life, mechanical employment  

having been one of the chief resources of my leisure time. Of my  

father’s family know but little, his father was clergy-man  

in London. remember hearing when boy, that, having to preach  

before the Court just after the reconciliation of George II, with  

the Prince of Wales, my grand-father unfortunately commenced the  

service with "I will arise'' etc., and thereby gave great offence  

to the Court.  

My father was educated at the Charterhouse and was fellow  

of Jesus College, Cambridge. do not know how many brothers and  

sisters he had, he was the youngest of the family, and, at the  

period of my earliest recollection he was the only member of the  

family left with the exception of sister, the widow of Dr. Nevinson,  

physician of some celebrity in London at one time. Two of my  

father’s nephews were in the Church and both became archdeacons  

Thomas Bonney and Henry Kaye Bonney, the latter was the author of  

Life of Jeremy Taylor and some other works. One of my father's  

brothers John Augustus Bonney is mentioned in Buckle’s History  

of Civilisation (Vol I. P. 488) as having been subjected to the  

vindictive persecutions carried on in the reign of George III. to  

suppress free discussion. am in possession of the medal which  

was struck in commemoration of the acquittal of my uncle who was  

tried for high treason with Horne Tooke and others in 1794-. The  

Jury brought in verdict of Not Guilty in opposition to the  

summing up of the judge. This is said to have been the first  

instance of jury referring to take the dictum of judge, and  

forms an era in the history of the liberty of the press.  

My father was born in the year 1760 the same year that  

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