Henry Bonney

His father's family friend, John Fane, 10th Earl of Westmorland, procured a foundation scholarship for him at Charterhouse School, where he obtained an exhibition, afterwards going on to study at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

On 8 January 1807, he was collated by Bishop George Pretyman Tomline to the prebend of Nassington in Lincoln Cathedral.

He was subsequently presented by the Earl of Westmorland to the rectory of King's Cliffe, in succession to his father, who had died of paralysis 20 March 1810.

In 1827, Bonney was appointed to the deanery of Stamford by his close friend John Kaye, Bishop of Lincoln, and was advanced by Kaye, 22 February 1845, from the archdeaconry of Bedford to that of Lincoln, of which, soon after his appointment, he made a parochial visitation, and wrote an accurate account of every church under his supervision.

[2] Bonney published the Sermons and Charges of Thomas Fanshaw Middleton, Bishop of Calcutta, with Memoirs of his Life, in 1824.

[2] Bonney's visitation notebooks of churches in the Deanery of Bedford 1823–39, and associated historical notes of c.1840, are published, along with near contemporary notes and descriptions by John Martin and Sir Stephen Glynne, and relevant archival records, in the following volumes: On 15 May 1827 he married Charlotte, the fourth daughter of John Perry, who, after a childless union of nearly twenty-four years, died at King's Cliffe 26 December 1850.