Sir John Bernard Bosanquet

Son of Samuel Bosanquet (1744-1806) and Eleanor Hunter (1745-1819), Justice of the Court of Common Pleas.

There is ambiguity about the nature of the awards made to James William Freshfield and Charles Bosanquet as trustees for Sir John Bernard Bosanquet: Sir John Bernard Bosanquet in turn is described as trustee for 4 City financiers who each lent £5000 to Manning & Anderdon secured on estates in St Kitts, but was not apparently a creditor himself.

1. Serjeant at Law 1814, King's Serjeant 1827; Lord Commissioner of the Great Seal 1825-6; presided over the Commission to Inquire into the Practices of the Common Law Courts 1828-30; Judge of the Court of Common Pleas from 1830; knighted 1830; P.C. 1833.

T71/879 St Kitts Nos. 206, 336 and 724.

1. William D. Rubinstein, Who were the rich? A biographical dictionary of British wealth-holders Volume Two 1840-1859 (MS), reference 1847/30; G. F. R. Barker, ‘Bosanquet, Sir John Bernard (1773–1847)’, rev. Hugh Mooney, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2004), online edn, Oct 2009 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2929 [accessed 28 Sept 2012].