Men-at-the-Bar/Bonser, John Winfield

by Joseph Foster

Bonser, John Winfield, attorney-general of the Straits Settlements since 1882, M.A. (fellow) Christ's Coll., Camb., bracketted senior classic 1870, matric London Univ. 1864, member of joint Board of Examiners Inns of Court 1879-83, a student of Lincoln's Inn 5 June, 1869 (then aged 21), late Tancred student in common law, called to the bar 18 Nov., 1872 (only son of Rev. John Bonser, of Bath); born , 1848.