Reverend Nathaniel Bond

A carte-de-visite portrait of Reverend Nathaniel Bond, (1804-1889), the Rector of Steeple with Tyneham in Dorset.

Born in London on 24 November 1804, Nathaniel Born was the second son of John Bond of Gower Street, London., who, following a family tradition, represented Corfe Castle in Parliament. He was privately baptised in Gower Street on 4 December 1804 and was later received into the church at Steeple in Dorset on 25 June 1806.

He finished his education at Oriel College, Oxford, graduating BA in 1829.

In 1835 at Stoke-under-Hamden in Somerset he married Mary, the youngest daughter of the late John Hawkesworth, Esq., of Forest, Queen’s County, Ireland (Salisbury and Winchester Journal, 9 November 1835).

The couple appear on the 1861 census living at ‘The Grange House’ at Steeple with three sons and ten live-in servants, with a gardener and his family living nearby. The house servants included a butler, a footman, a coachman and a groom.

In 1864 his eldest son, also Nathaniel, married a daughter of the third Earl of Eldon.

‘Reverend Nathaniel Bond late of Creech Grange in the Isle of Purbeck in the County of Dorset, Clerk, Rector of Steeple-with-Tyneham’ died on 20 July 1889 at Creech Grange, leaving an estate valued at £6870. He was 84 years old. At the time of his death, he was also a Canon of Salisbury Cathedral.

He was buried in the churchyard of St Michael’s and All Angels at Steeple in Dorset.