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Claud Lynnford Bicknell (1860-1882) was killed by a cricket ball at
Fenners,
Cambridge.
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Elhanan Bicknell (1788-1861) took his name from the American preacher
Elhanan Winchester. Having made his money with a fleet of thirty ships
which monopolized the Pacific sperm-whale fishery business, he patronized
several celebrated artists of the time including Turner. Master of the
Vintners.
[NI7779]
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Called Lucinda Sarah Loder in Bernard Bicknell's letter from NZ 1996
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Elhanan's third son Herman Bicknell was, in 1862, the first foreigner to
visit Mecca wholly undisguised. He nearly lost his life on the Matterhorn
in August 1870, but made a successful ascent in 1872. His literal and
metrical translation of all the Odes of Hafiz was unfinished at his
death, so his brother Sydeny completed and published it in 1875.
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Elhanan's eighth son Aldernon Sydney Bicknell (1832-1911) made ten
ascents of Vesuvius, six during eruptions. He crossed the Andes four
times and crossed South America through the Amazonian jungle.
His book "Five Pedigrees" (George Sherwood, 227 Strand, London, 1912) is
the source for much of the anecdotal information in Marcus Bicknell's
family trees (mid 1990s onwards).
Master of the Vintners
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Adm. pens. at Trinity College, Cambridge, Jan 8 1861, Son of Elhanan of
Herne Hill, Surrey. b Oct 27 1842 in London. Matric. Michs. 1861. B.A.
1865. M.A. 1873. Ord. deacon (London) 1866, priest 1868. C. of St. Pauls,
Newington, Surrey 1866-72. C. of Stoke-on-Terne, Salop, 1875-81. Of Villa
Rosa, Bordighera, Italy. Botanist. Author "Flowering Plants of the
Riviera" etc. Died July 17 1918 in Val Casterino di Tenda, Italy (Vis. of
England and Wales XVII)
[NI7787]
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William Bicknell of Lincoln House, Ponder's End, Middlesex, and
afterwards of Surrey Hall, Lower Tooting, Surrey, schoolmaster. 2nd son
of John Bicknell by Jane his wife, daughter of John Green of Oxford,
surgeon. Born at 8 Blackman Street, Newington, Surrey 12 August 1749.
Wrote preface to and edited and published "Elhanan Winchester's
Dialogues" (two editions) 1788. Author of "Life of John Coventry" 1813.
Admitted a Freeman of the Vintners' Company 1 May 1770 and to Livery 1785.
Portrait in oils (life-size) at the age of about 30, and miniature
portrait in water colours, by Samuel Drummond A.R.A., both in the
possession of Sydney Bicknell. Portrait in oils (life-size) at the age of
about 62, painted in 1811 by Samuel Drummond A.R.A., in the possession
of Clarence Bicknell. Miniature portrait in water-colours, by Samuel
Drummond A.R.A., in the possession of Percy Bicknell.
From "Visitation of England and Wales, edited by Frederick Arthur Crisp,
Volume 17, privately printed 1911.
Also
"Memoir of William Bicknell" written in 1816, added to in 1821, with an
obituary in 1826. Transcribed to computer text by Ray White, a Bicknell
descendant, in November 1996 and in the possession of Marcus Bicknell.
[NI7788]
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Portrait in oils (life-size), and miniature portrait in water colours, by
Samuel Drummond A.R.A., circa 1796 both in the possession of Sydney
Bicknell.
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Most senior Bicknell of identifiable and un-interrupted lineage
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[Bick_uk.ftw]
Rupert Leslie's mother is called Sarah Proctor Beauchamp in Bernard
Bicknell's letter from NZ 1996
[NI7807]
[Bick_uk.ftw]
Edward's father John was hoping Edward would become a Vintner, but his
decision to enter Ealing Abbey precluded that (letter from John 11 Jan
1995)
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No children
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Infant death
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David Roberts R.A., great topographical water-colourist and painter,
frequented Elhanan's Herne Hill home. His daughter Christine met
Elhanan's 5th son Henry there and they married in 1838.
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Arthur Channing Bicknell and Nellie had children, no detail