Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Bond, George
BOND, GEORGE (1750–1796), lawyer, second son of George Bond, of Farnham, Surrey, by the daughter of Sir Thomas Chitty, knight, was a member of the Middle Temple, and obtained a large practice at the Surrey sessions. He belonged to a class of lawyers now happily approaching extinction, whose chief strength consists in playing upon the susceptibilities of ignorant juries. Enthralled by his coarse and vulgar humour, the jurors of his native county, Surrey, were almost at his mercy, and tradition says that a not uncommon form of verdict at the Surrey sessions was: ‘We finds for Serjeant Bond and costs' He was made a serjeant in 1786. He died 19 March 1796 of a rheumatic fever, having married in 1793 a lady named Cooke, of Conduit Street, a grandaughter of one of the prothonotaries of the common pleas.
Gent. Mag. lxvi. 262; European Magazine, xxix. 215; Law and Lawyers, i. 206; Hayden's Book of Dignities, 260; Beatson's Polit. Index, ii. 341.]
Dictionary of National Biography, Errata (1904), p.30
N.B.— f.e. stands for from end and l.l. for last line
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