John Bicknell solicitor to the Admiralty and the Prince Regent, became father-in-law to John Constable. His eldest daughter Maria Elizabeth Bicknell married Constable in 1816. John Bicknell John Bicknell, the elder (baptised 1746 – 1787) was an English barrister and writer. He was co-author with Thomas Day of the abolitionist poem "The Dying Negro" from 1773. Bicknell has also been credited with "Musical Travels through England", a pseudonymous satire on Charles Burney. The second son of Robert Bicknell of the Inner Temple, he was admitted to the Middle Temple in 1761. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1769.
Joan Bicknell "psychopathology of handicap" she dealt with the family´s reaction to the diagnosis of intellectual disability drawing an analogy to the stages of grief in the bereavement process. Bicknell concentrated on humanising care of people with intellectual disabilities. She took a position in bioethical hot spots years before others like the sterilization of minors with developmental disabilities in 1988, compared to the American Academy of Pediatrics for example in 1990. Her approach challenged the expectation that people were better not cared for in their own homes and meant that Bicknell was never part of the medical establishment. Bicknell suffered asthma and