Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-H by Frederic Boase

BONNEY, VENERABLE THOMAS KAYE (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ Tansor, Northamptonshire 20 June 1782; ed. at Clare coll. Cam., B.A. 1803, M.A. 1806; R. of Coningsby Lincs. 1814 to death; R. of Normanton, Rutland 1814 to death; Preb. of Lincoln 17 Oct. 1823 to death; archdeacon of Leicester 22 Jany. 1831 to death. _d._ Normanton rectory 7 April 1863. BONOMI, JOSEPH (_son of Giuseppe Bonomi of London, architect 1739–1808_). _b._ 76 Great Titchfield st. London 9 Oct. 1796; ed. at Carshalton, Surrey; studied drawing at Royal Academy and sculpture under Nollekens; fellow Student with John Gibson in Rome; lived in Egypt and Syria 1824–32 and 1842–44; went to the Holy Land 1833; illustrated the Egyptological works of Wilkinson and Birch and nearly all those of Samuel Sharpe; curator of Sir John Soane’s Museum, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London 1861 to death; F.R.A.S, 8 Feb. 1861; author of _Nineveh and its palaces_ 1852, _new ed._ 1869. _d._ The Camels, Wimbledon park, Surrey 3 March