(19 April 1653) a new council of state was formed upon a reduced scale, and Bond was not included therein, nor apparently in any subsequent council. Yet in 1655 we find him mentioned as a member of the council's committee for trade. Probably being regarded as a person of special knowledge in that department, he was by an irregularity placed on the committee, though not a member of the council. He represented Weymouth and Melcombe Regis in the short lived parliament of 1654, and was returned by the same constituency in 1656. He died on 30 Aug. 1658, ‘the windiest day,’ says Wood, ‘that had before happened for twenty years, being then tormented with the stragnury and much anxiety of spirit.' Crornwell’s death following on 3 Sept. suggested to some royalist of a punning humour a jeu de mots which was popular in its time, and which, though the precise form which its author gave it has been forgotten, was to the effect that the devil had taken Bond for Oliver's appearance. He was buried in Westminster Abbey, but his body was exhumed in September 1661 and transgerred to the churchyard of St. Margaret’s close by. He seems to have had his fair share of the pride of long descent; for he drew up and had engrossed on vellum an elaborate account of his own pedigree, of the complete accuracy of which modern genealogical authorities are by no means satisfied. He also made an alteration in the family scutcheon, which has been retained by his descendants. He had an estate at Lutton, Dorset, and was twice married. His first wife, married in 1610, was Joan, daughter of John Gould, of Dorchester, by whom he had two sons, viz. John, afterwards eminent as a puritan divine [see Bond, John, d. 1676), and William, who achieved no particular distinction, and died in 1669 without male issue. In 1622 he married Lucy, daughter of William Lawrence, of Steeple, Dorset. His son by this marriage, Nathaniel, born 1634, was educated at All Souls College, Oxford, where he graduated B.C.L. 14 Dec. 1654, having on 14 April of the same year been admitted a student of the Inner Temple. He was called to the bar 26 May 1661. In the parliament of 1680 he represented Corfe Castle, and the following year was returned for Dorchester, and in 1695 for the same place. In 1683 he was appointed recorder of Weymouth, became serjeart-law 2 May 1689, and king’s serjeant 1693, being then knighted. On the accession of Queen Anne he was not summoned to the usual ceremony of taking the oaths, and consequently lost his rank of serieant. In 1660 he bought him his elder brothers, John and William, the Lutton estate, and in 1686, from John Lawrence the reversion of the adjoining wtate of Creech Grange, which fell into possession in 1691, and has ever since been the seat of the family; He married (1) Elizabeth, youngest daug ter of the Rev. J. Churchill, rector of Steeple, who died without issue 18 Dec. 1674; (2) Mary, daughter of Lewis Williams, Esq., of Chitterton, Dorset, by whom he had two sons, Dennis and John. He died in 1707, and was buried at Steeple. His wife died in 1728, and was buried at the same place.
[Hutchins’s Dorset, i. 279, 325-7, ii. 10, 12, 14, 17, iv. 357, 360; Clarendon, ii. 27; Willis’s Not. Parl. iii. 231, 261, 274; Commons Journals, vi. 141. 362, 632, vii. 42, 220; Rushworth's Hist. Coll. part iv. vol. ii. 1379; State Trils, iv. 1134-5; State Papers, Dom. (1649-50), 284, 374, 387. 441, 461, 494, 565, (1650) passim, (1651) 315, 413, 431, (1651-2), 43, 46, 102, 150, 321, 436, 447, 505, (1652-3) xxxiii, xxxiv, 2, 19, 62. 228; Whitelocke’s Memorials. 674; Burke's Landed Gentry; Wood's Athenæ, ii. 117, Fasti, ii. 182; Woolrych's Lives of Eminent Serjeants-at-Law, i. 170, 414; Wynne's serjeant-at-1aw.]
BOND, GEORGE (1750–1796), lawyer, second son of George Bond, of Farnham, Surrey, by the daughter of Sir Thomas Chitty, knight, was a member of the Middle Temple, and obtained a large practice at the Surrey sessions. He belonged to a class of lawyers now happily approaching extinction, whose chief strength consists in playing upon the susceptibilities of ignorant juries. Enthralled by his coarse and vulgar humour, the jurors of his native county, Surrey, were almost at his mercy, and tradition says that a not uncommon form of verdict at the Surrey sessions was: ‘We finds for Serjeant Bond and costs' He was made a serjeant in 1786. He died 19 March 1796 of a rheumatic fever, having married in 1793 a lady named Cooke, of Conduit Street, a grandaughter of one of the prothonotaries of the common pleas.
Gent. Mag. lxvi. 262; European Magazine, xxix. 215; Law and Lawyers, i. 206; Hayden's Book of Dignities, 260; Beatson's Polit. Index, ii. 341.]
BOND, HENRY JOHN HALES, M.D. (1801–1883), professor at Cambridge, was a younger son of the Rev. W. Bond, fellow of Caius College and rector of Wheatacre, Norfolk, in which village he was born in 1801. He was educated at the Norwich grammar school under Dr. Valpy. He studied medicine at Cambridge, London, Edinburgh, and Paris, graduated M.B. at Corpus Christi, Cambridge, 1825, M.D. 1831. Before the latter
