[1] Bond was educated at Amersham Hall School, University College, London and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he spent the rest of his career.
[2] He was Scholar in 1875; Chancellor's Medallist in 1877; Called to the Bar in 1883; appointed Lecturer in Roman Law in 1886; elected Fellow in 1887; and J.P. in 1906.
He was Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge from 1919 to 1929; and a Bencher of the Middle Temple from 1922.
Bond's pupils included Jan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa, and Stanley Bruce, Prime Minister of Australia.
[2] Bond lived at Middlefield, a country house near Stapleford to the south of Cambridge that was built for him in 1908−09 by the architect Edwin Lutyens.