James Whatman Bosanquet


James Whatman Bosanquet was an English banker and writer on biblical chronology.

Life

He was son of the banker Samuel Bosanquet and his wife Laetitia Philippa Whatman of Kent, born 10 January 1804; Samuel Richard Bosanquet was his elder brother. He was educated at Westminster School, and at the age of 18 entered Bosanquet, Salt, & Co., the family bank. In due course he became a partner.
A contributor to the Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archæology, Bosanquet subsidised its publication; and he also supported other works on Assyriology. He died 22 December 1877.

Works

Bosanquet was known as a writer on biblical and Assyrian chronology:
His earliest publications, related to finance, were Metallic, Paper, and Credit Currency, 1842, and a Letter to the Right Hon. G. Cornewall Lewis on the Bank Charter Act of 1844, 1857.

Family

Bosanquet married three times:
  1. To Merelina, daughter of Sir Nicholas Conyngham Tindal ;
  2. To Frances Georgiana Elizabeth, daughter of Lord John Thomas Henry Somerset ; and
  3. To Emily Dorothy Best.
Bernard Bosanquet the cricketer was a grandson.