Nicholas Bonfoy

- 1775

• Name	Nicholas Bonfoy
  Subscription	1768  [1]
  The Christiad: A Poem in Six Books
  Died	12 Oct 1775  [2]
  Buried	20 Oct 1775	St. Andrew, Abbots Ripton, Huntingdonshire   [3]
  Person ID	I00062	Eliots of Port Eliot
  Last Modified	16 Jun 2021

  
  

  Father	Nicholas Bonfoy,   d. Bef 17 Jun 1734
  Mother	Elizabeth Hale,   b. 14 Mar 1681/82,   d. 14 Mar 1763, Highgate, London  (Age 81 years)
  Family ID	F00030	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  --- Will Dated 3 Oct 1775: I give and bequeath unto my said Niece, Anne, Countess of Ely, the sum of two thousand pounds, and unto her Mother, Mrs. Bonfoy, the sum of two hundred pounds. --- "DIED. [Oct.] 12. Nicholas Bonfoy, Esq; Serjeant at Arms to the House of Commons; at his seat near Huntingdon. --- "Salisbury and Winchester Journal" 23 Oct 1775, page 2 DIED. At his seat at Ripton, in Huntingdonshire, of an inflammation in his bowels, Nicholas Bonfoy, Esq; Serjeant at Arms to the House of Commons; a worthy, good man, who continued doing all friendly and charitable offices to his death; just before which, he was happy in having one of his nieces married to the Earl of Ely, an Irish Nobleman, of great merit and estate. --- "A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry . . ." Vol. 2, Sir B. Burke, page 1188 --- seen on Google Books John Rooper, Esq. of Berkamstead Castle, and of Abbott's Ripton, co. Huntingdon. who was b. 5 June, 1744, and m. Elizabeth, only child of Thomas Bonfoy, Esq. and niece to Nicholas Bonfoy. Esq. of Abbott's Ripton, segeant-at-arms of the House of Coomons . . .

  
  

• Sources

  "The Christiad: A Poem in Six Books" Marco Girolamo Vida, 1768. "Annual Register" vol. 18, 1775, page 213. Parish Records Collection Burials on FindMyPast.co.uk.