John Bond (1550 – 3 August 1612) was an English physician and classical scholar who also served twice as

Member of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members of ...

(MP) for

Taunton Taunton () is the county town of Somerset, England, with a 2011 population of 69,570. Its thousand-year history includes a 10th-century monastic foundation, Taunton Castle, which later became a priory. The Normans built a castle owned by the ...

. Born at Trull in

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and educated at

Winchester College Winchester College is a public school (fee-charging independent day and boarding school) in Winchester, Hampshire, England. It was founded by William of Wykeham in 1382 and has existed in its present location ever since. It is the oldest of the ...

and

New College, Oxford New College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1379 by William of Wykeham in conjunction with Winchester College as its feeder school, New College is one of the oldest colleges at th ...

, he became a Master of Arts in 1579 and soon afterwards was appointed Master of the Free School at

(an appointment in the gift of New College). Although unqualified in medicine, he also began to practise as a doctor, and became highly respected as a physician. He came to be more noted, however, for the commentaries he published on classical literature, notably that on

Horace Quintus Horatius Flaccus (; 8 December 65 – 27 November 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace (), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his ' ...

which subsequently were included in many European editions of the poet's works; also important was his ''Commentaries on

Persius Aulus Persius Flaccus (; 4 December 3424 November 62 AD) was a Ancient Rome, Roman poet and satirist of Etruscan civilization, Etruscan origin. In his works, poems and satires, he shows a Stoicism, Stoic wisdom and a strong criticism for what he ...

'', published after his death by his son-in-law. Bond was elected MP for Taunton in the parliaments of 1601 and 1604–1611, and it is considered likely also that he was the John Bond who was chief secretary to the

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Sir Thomas Egerton Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley, (1540 – 15 March 1617), known as 1st Baron Ellesmere from 1603 to 1616, was an English nobleman, judge and statesman from the Egerton family who served as Lord Keeper and Lord Chancellor for twenty-on ...

. He died in 1612 and was buried in Taunton parish church. The antiquary

Anthony à Wood Anthony Wood (17 December 1632 – 28 November 1695), who styled himself Anthony à Wood in his later writings, was an English antiquary. He was responsible for a celebrated ''Hist. and Antiq. of the Universitie of Oxon''. Early life Anthony W ...

described him as ''"a polite and rare critic, whose labours have advanced the commonwealth of learning very much"''.

Major works

* ''Quinti Horatii Flacci Poemata scholiis sive annotationibus, quae brevis Commentarii vice esse possint illustrata'' (London, 1606, afterwards reprinted at Leyden, Frankfurt, Hanover, Amsterdam, Leipzig, etc.) * ''Auli Persii Flacci Satyrae sex, cum posthumis Commentariis Joannis Bond'' (London, 1614, afterwards at Paris, Amsterdam, Nuremberg, etc.)

References

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William Thomas Lowndes William Thomas Lowndes (c. 1798 – 31 July 1843), English bibliographer, was born about 1798, the son of a London bookseller. His principal work, ''The Bibliographer’s Manual of English Literature''—the first systematic work of the kind—w ...

, ''The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature'' (London: Henry G Bohn, 1857

1550 births 1612 deaths Alumni of New College, Oxford 16th-century English medical doctors 17th-century English medical doctors English MPs 1601 English MPs 1604–1611 {{17thC-England-MP-stub