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

Life

He was the son of John Bicknell and his wife Sabrina Sidney.[4] His name commemorated John Laurens, his father's friend, who died in 1782.[5] 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.[2][4]

In a successful legal career, Bicknell became solicitor to the Admiralty.[6] He was Sir John Soane's solicitor from 1828, and an original trustee of the Soane Museum.[7] 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.[8]

Works

• A Brief Vindication of the legality of the late proceedings against George Wilson, the Blackheath Pedestrian (1815), on George 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

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

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