Nathaniel Bond KS (14 June 163431 August 1707), of

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in the

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, was an English lawyer and

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Bond was the fourth son of Denis Bond, a prominent politician during the

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, succeeding to the family estates at Lutton after all his elder brothers died without male heirs, and also in 1686 buying the neighbouring estate of Grange which subsequently became the family seat. He was educated at

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, awarded a fellowship at

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, matriculated from

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in 1650, graduating B.C.L. in 1654, and incorporated LL.B. at

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in 1659. He proceeded to the Inner Temple, where he was called to the bar in 1661. Making his career in the law, he was a barrister and

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. He entered Parliament in 1679 as member for

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, and subsequently also represented Dorchester in 1681. On 21 December 1667 he married Elizabeth Churchill (b. 1648/9 d. 1674). His second marriage, on 3 August 1675, was to Mary Browne (d. 1728), widow of Thomas Browne of Frampton and daughter of Lewis Williams of Shitterton, and they had two sons: * Denis Bond of

(1676–1747), MP for Dorchester, Corfe Castle and Poole, his heir * John Bond of Tyneham (1678–1744), MP for Corfe Castle He bought

near Wareham in 1691.

References

* * "Bond of Grange" in ''Burke’s Landed Gentry'' (4th edition, London: Harrison, Pall Mall, 1862–3) 1634 births 1707 deaths Members of the Parliament of England for Dorchester Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford Alumni of the University of Cambridge English lawyers 17th-century English lawyers English MPs 1680–1681 English MPs 1681 English MPs 1695–1698 Serjeants-at-law (England) {{17thC-England-MP-stub