Henry Bonney

Henry Kaye Bonney D.D. (1780–1862) was an English churchman and author.

Life

King's Cliffe church

He was son of Henry Kaye Bonney, rector of King's Cliffe and prebendary of Lincoln, and was born 22 May 1780 at Tansor, Northamptonshire, of which parish his father was at that time rector; Bonney's brother Thomas was also a priest (later Archdeacon of Leicester.) His father's family friend, John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland, procured for him a foundation scholarship at Charterhouse School, where he obtained an exhibition, and went to Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Having been elected to one of the Tancred divinity studentships, he migrated to Christ's College. He became B.A. in 1802, M.A. 1805, D.D. 1824.^{[1] [2]}

He was ordained deacon in 1803 and priest in 1804, with a charge at Thurlby, in Lincolnshire. After a few months he went to live with his parents at King's Cliffe, and undertook the parishes of Ketton and Tixover with Duddington. He was collated by Bishop George Pretyman Tomline, 8 January 1807, to the prebend of Nassington in Lincoln Cathedral. Bonney was presented by the Earl of Westmorland to the rectory of King's Cliffe, in succession to his father, who died of paralysis 20 March 1810.^[2]

In 1820 he was appointed examining chaplain to George Pelham, the new bishop of Lincoln; and was collated by Pelham, 10 December 1821, to the archdeaconry of Bedford. An order in council, 19 April 1837, transferred it from the diocese of Lincoln to the diocese of Ely. In 1827, Bonney was appointed to the deanery of Stamford by his close friend John Kaye, Bishop of Lincoln, and was advanced by Kaye, 22 February 1845, from the archdeaconry of Bedford to that of Lincoln, of which, soon after his appointment, he made a parochial visitation, and wrote an accurate account of every church under his supervision. As an archdeacon Bonney was indefatigable. ^[2]

In the early part of 1858 he was seized with paralysis, and never entirely recovered. He died at the rectory-house, King's Cliffe, 24 December 1862, and was buried in his wife's grave in the churchyard of Cliffe, where he had contributed to the restoration of the church.^[2]

Works

He published in 1815, with a dedication to the Earl of Westmorland, a biography of Jeremy Taylor. In 1821 Bonney dedicated to Lady Cicely Georgiana Fane his Historic Notices in reference to Fotheringay, Oundle. ^[2]

Bonney published the Sermons and Charges of Thomas Fanshaw Middleton, Bishop of Calcutta, with Memoirs of his Life, London, 1824. He published his own charges to the clergy of the archdeaconry of Bedford for the years 1823, 1843, and 1844, and charges delivered to the clergy and churchwardens of the archdeaconry of Lincoln at the visitations of 1850, 1854, and 1856. He also contributed a sermon, Sacred Music and Psalmody considered, which had been first preached in Lincoln Cathedral, to the third volume of Practical Sermons by Dignitaries and other Clergymen of the United Church of England and Ireland, London, 1846.^[2]

Family

On 15 May 1827 he married Charlotte, the fourth daughter of John Perry, who, after a childless union of nearly twenty-four years, died at King's Cliffe 26 December 1850.^[2]

References

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Grant, Arthur Henry (1886). "Bonney, Henry Kaye". In Stephen, Leslie. Dictionary of National Biography. 5. London: Smith, Elder & Co.