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.
Jessie Bicknell She also attended the International Council of Nurses (ICN) meetings in Copenhagen in 1923, and Montreal in 1929, and became a member of the ICN Education Committee. She helped establish postgraduate nursing courses, and also worked on a superannuation scheme for hospital nurses, and a review of legislation affecting nurses. When the Nurses and Midwives Board was established in 1925, Bicknell was a member and its registrar. Bicknell retired in March 1931 and lived in Remuera, Auckland. She died in Greenlane Hospital on 13 October 1956. Jessie Bicknell Jessie Bicknell (27 March 1871–13 October 1956) was a New Zealand civilian