Sir James Bond, 1st Baronet (11 June 1744 – 2 June 1820) was an Irish Member of Parliament of

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descent. He was the son of the Rev. James Bond (died 1762), a minister at Corboy in

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by his wife Catherine, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Wensley, of

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. On 27 July 1770 he was married to Anne Hornby, the daughter of

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, who would later serve as

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; they had several children and died on 3 July 1809. Bond sat in the

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as Member for

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from 1790 to 1797, and on 21 January 1794, he was created a

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, of Coolamber in

, in the

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.E. M. Johnston-Liik
''MPs in Dublin: Companion to History of the Irish Parliament, 1692-1800''
(Ulster Historical Foundation, 2006), p.71. Retrieved 24 January 2023. At his death the baronetcy was inherited by his second son, Thomas, as his eldest, James Hornby Bond, had died in 1792.

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