Bonney, Francis Augustus Burdett, 1804-1877 (Surgeon and Writer)

Person

Biography

Son of John Augustus Bonney of London, solicitor. Educated at Ealing; made many contributions chiefly in verse to literary journals especially European Magazine; studied medicine in Edin. and Paris; L.R.C.S. Edin. 1829, L.S.A. 1833; practised at Brentford 1833, Chichester and London; author of Nugæ or poetic trifles 1821, and of some valuable papers in medical journals. Married Miss Elliott, proprietress of Elm house lunatic asylum, Queen’s Elm, Brompton, London, and died at Elm house 13 Oct. 1877. Medical Circular i, 303 (1852). Source: MODERN ENGLISH BIOGRAPHY; CONTAINING MANY THOUSAND CONCISE MEMOIRS OF PERSONS WHO HAVE DIED SINCE THE YEAR 1850, WITH AN INDEX OF THE MOST INTERESTING MATTER. BY FREDERIC BOASE accessed: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/55059/55059-h/55059-h.htm March 2026.

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Papers of John Augustus Bonney, and Bonney family papers

Fonds — Multiple Containers

Identifier: Coll-307

Scope and Contents The collection comprises research notes compiled by Bonney - while he was himself imprisoned in the Tower - from named source materials, as well as graffiti he recorded from locations throughout the building. It includes manuscript draft and final versions of chapters for Bonney’s unpublished history of the Tower of London, which recounts the Tower’s story through case histories of its prisoners.The collection also contains a diary kept by Bonney during his imprisonment; a list...

Dates: 1794-1836

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections