John Laurens Bicknell


John Laurens Bicknell was an English solicitor and author. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1821.

Life

He was the son of John Bicknell and his wife Sabrina Sidney. His name commemorated John Laurens, his father's friend, who died in 1782. He was educated at Charles Burney's school, where his mother worked, having been left little to live on when his father died in 1787.
In a successful legal career, Bicknell became solicitor to the Admiralty. He was Sir John Soane's solicitor from 1828, and an original trustee of the Soane Museum. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and of the Society of Antiquaries of London, and died at Dover on 3 August 1845, aged 59.

Works

Bicknell married in 1809 Jane Willmott, eldest daughter of Thomas Willmott, at Shoreham, Kent.