John James Bond (9 December 1819 – 9 December 1883) was an

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chronologist, who served in the record office of

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Career

Bond entered the public service at the age of 21 as a clerk, assisting

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, his brother-in-law, in the arrangement of the public records when they were transferred from

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to the Royal Riding School of

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. He was a senior assistant keeper of the

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at the time of his death.

Works

Bond compiled ''Handy Book of Rules and Tables for verifying dates of historical events, and of public and private documents, giving tables of regional years of English sovereigns, with leading dates, from the conquest to the present time'', London, 1866, 1869, and in 1875 an edition by Walford Dakin Selby.

References

Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Bond, John James 1810 births 1883 deaths 19th-century English people Chronologists