Sir James Bond, 1st Baronet
Sir James Bond, 1st Baronet was an Irish Member of Parliament of Anglo-Irish descent.
He was the son of the Rev. James Bond, a minister at Corboy in County Longford by his wife Catherine, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Wensley, of Lifford, County Donegal. On the 27 July 1770 he was married to Anne Hornby, the daughter William Hornby, who would later serve as Governor of Bombay; she bore him several children and died on the 3 July 1809. Bond sat in the Irish House of Commons as Member for Naas from 1790 to 1797, and on 21 January 1794 he was created a baronet, of Coolamber in County Longford, in the Baronetage of Ireland. At his death the baronetcy was inherited by his second son, Thomas, as his eldest, James Hornby Bond, had died in 1792.
