Bodkin, W. H. (William Henry), Sir, 1791-1874

found: Brief observations on the bill ... to amend the laws relative to the relief of the poor in England, 1821:t.p. (W.H. Bodkin, Esq., honorary secretary to the Society for the Suppression of Mendicity)

found: Wikipedia, viewed 13 June 2024:William Bodkin, judge (Sir William Henry Bodkin; born 5 August 1791, Galway; educated at the Islington Academy; worked as an auctioneer and house agent; called to the bar in 1826 at Gray's Inn; initially practised on the Home Circuit and in the Central Criminal Court in the Old Bailey; appointed as a recorder of Dover in 1834; elected for the Conservative Party at the 1841 general election as a Member of Parliament for the borough of Rochester in Kent, defeated at the 1847 general election, did not stand at the 1852 general election, and unsuccessfully contested the borough at an 1856 by-election; later became a Justice of the Peace in Middlesex, a Deputy Lieutenant of Middlesex, and judge of the Court of Sessions in Middlesex; a leading founder in 1818 and honorary secretary of the Society for the Suppression of Mendicity until 1830, served as vice-president of the Society of Arts and as president of the Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution; knighted in 1867; lived in Highgate, North London, where he is buried; died 26 March 1874)