Denis Bond (MP)
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Denis Bond of Creech Grange
, Dorset
, was English Member of Parliament for Dorchester
, Corfe Castle
, and Poole. He was also a director of the Charitable Corporation
at the time of its collapse. He was Recorder of Poole from 1719 until his death.
, who came from a family who had been merchants in Dorchester, and bought Crrech Grange in 1691. He married Leonara Sophia, widow of Edmund Dummer
and daughter of the diplomat Sir William Dutton Colt. They had no children and Bond's estates passed to his nephew John Bond.
Creech Grange
Creech Grange is an elegant country house, south of Wareham at the foot of the Purbeck Hills.- History :The house was built by Sir Oliver Lawrence, who acquired the land from the former Bindon Abbey, near Wool, after Henry VIII had abolished the monasteries in 1539...
, Dorset
Dorset
Dorset , is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The county town is Dorchester which is situated in the south. The Hampshire towns of Bournemouth and Christchurch joined the county with the reorganisation of local government in 1974...
, was English Member of Parliament for Dorchester
Dorchester (UK Parliament constituency)
Dorchester was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Dorchester in Dorset. It returned two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1295 to 1868, when its representation was reduced one member....
, Corfe Castle
Corfe Castle (UK Parliament constituency)
Corfe Castle was a parliamentary borough in Dorset, which elected two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons from 1572 until 1832, when it was abolished by the Great Reform Act.-History:...
, and Poole. He was also a director of the Charitable Corporation
Charitable Corporation
The Charitable Corporation was an institution in Britain intended to provide loans at low interest to the deserving poor, including by large-scale pawnbroking. It was established by charter in 1707. Its full title was "Charitable Corporation for the relief of the industrious poor by assisting them...
at the time of its collapse. He was Recorder of Poole from 1719 until his death.
Family
Bond was the son of Nathaniel BondNathaniel Bond
Nathaniel Bond, KS, , of Creech Grange in the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, was an English lawyer and Member of Parliament....
, who came from a family who had been merchants in Dorchester, and bought Crrech Grange in 1691. He married Leonara Sophia, widow of Edmund Dummer
Edmund Dummer (lawyer)
Edmund Dummer was an English lawyer who was appointed "Clerk of the Great Wardrobe" under Queen Anne in 1706, holding that office until 1721....
and daughter of the diplomat Sir William Dutton Colt. They had no children and Bond's estates passed to his nephew John Bond.