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.
Thomas W. Bicknell "New England Journal of Education" (Boston, 1875–1880). He was the author of the five-volume "History of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations", the author-publisher of "The Governors of Rhode Island", "The Dorr War", "The Story of the Rhode Island Normal School", and "Story of Dr. John Clarke", and the editor-publisher of "History and Genealogy of the Bicknell Family and Collateral Lines". As a historian he also contributed to "The Bay State Monthly" magazine. Thomas W. Bicknell Thomas W. Bicknell (September 6, 1834 – 1925) was an American educator, historian, and author. Thomas Williams Bicknell was born in Barrington, Rhode Island to