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.
Elhanan Bicknell Elhanan Bicknell Elhanan Bicknell (21 December 1788–27 November 1861) was a successful London businessman and shipowner, He used his wealth as a patron of the arts, becoming one of the leading collectors of contemporary British art of his time. Elhanan Bicknell was born 21 December 1788, in Blackman Street, London, the son of William Bicknell, serge manufacturer there, and of Elizabeth Bicknell, previously a Miss Randall, of Sevenoaks, Kent. His father attended John Wesley's school at Kingswood, Bristol, and entertained him in Blackman Street when he came to preach at Snow's Fields in Southwark. Another minister who was a family