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Authorised form of nameCabbell; Benjamin Bond (1781 - 1874)
Dates1781 - 1874
NationalityBritish
Place of birthVere Street, London, England
Date of birth1781
Place of death39 Chapel Street, Marylebone Road, London
Date of death09 December 1874
OccupationPolitician and Philanthropist
ActivityEducation:
Westminster; matriculated at orile College Oxford (1800) leaving in 1803 without a degree.
Career:
Called to the Bar, Middle Temple (1816), Bencher (1850); pracised on the Western Circuit. Member of Parliament for St Albans (1846-1847) and Boston (1847-1857); Justice of the Peace for Norfolk, Middlesex and Westminster;Deputy Lieutenant of Middlesex (1852); High Sheriff, Norfolk (1854). Benefactor of good causes, including funding the first lifeboat station, Cromer and providing the first 34 foot self-righting lifeboat stationed there and named after him.
Vice President, Royal Institution
Freemason, initiated 22 June 1825, Lodge of Antiquity No 2, London.
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election19/01/1837
SourceLibrary and Museum of Freemasonry, 'Freemasons and the Royal Society: Alphabetical List of Fellows of the Royal Society who were Freemasons' 2010, page 15
CodeNA2541
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EC/1837/01Cabbell, Benjamin Bond: certificate of election to the Royal Society
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