Harry Cottrell Bonnycastle1
#19395, (1832 - 1899)
| Father | Humphrey Bonnycastle2 (1795 - b 1866) |
| Mother | Jane Cottrell2 (c 1796 - 1867) |
| Relationship | Grandson of John Bonnycastle |
Life Events | |
| Birth | Harry Cottrell Bonnycastle was born on 21 Dec 1832 in Kent.2,1 |
| Baptism | He was baptized on 29 May 1834 in St George Hanover Square, Middlesex. Harry Cottrell Bonnycastle was the son of Humphrey & Jane Murray Bonnycastle, abode Pollen Street. Humphrey's occupation was Gentleman.1 |
| Passenger List | He was listed on a manifest dated 28 Aug 1837 as Henry Bonnicastle, age 4. He arrived at New York from London on the ship "Mediator", destination Upper Canada. He was travelling with [his father] Humphrey Bonnicastle age 42 & [his uncle] Richard Henry age 45.3 |
| (with Parents) 1841 Census | Harry appeared on the 1841 Census of Lewisham, Kent in the household of Humphrey and Jane Bonicastle. He was 8 years old and born in Kent.2 |
| Research Note | He became an architect (not listed at Cambridge or Oxford), possibly in India, quit early and joined an art colony in France with a mistress.4 |
| Note. | There was an ebay listing in November 2017 for an engraving done by Bonnycastle of the funeral of Victor Noir in 1870. The engraving was published in Harper's Weekly Newspaper. This places Bonnycastle in Paris in January of 1870. |
| Newspaper | Published 1872 in the The Illustrated London News. THE PRESIDENCY COLLEGE, MADRAS. This institution was opened by the Duke of Edinburgh when his Royal Highness visited India. The foundation-stone of the building had been laid by Lord Napier, Governor of the Madras Presidency, four years before. The building, of which we give an Illustration, stands on the sea-beach, and the surf broke within a short distance of its front during the great storm of the 2nd ult. The Presidency College was the first attempt, in this part of India, to introduce proper building materials, and to use them truthfully. Every structure before had been externally coated with "stucco." Here the materials are red brick, grey granite, and black limestone. The black, polished columns are of a close-grained gneiss, found near St Thomas's Mount, which is capable of receiving a very high degree of polish. The capitals and bases are of terra-cotta, made in the local School of Arts. The whole of the interior is executed in the fine chunam common to this part of the country. This material, for interior decoration, is perhaps the finest to be met with in any part of the world; it affords peculiar facilities for rendering ornamentation in the most effective manner. The building contains class-rooms, lecture-rooms, a spacious examination hall, library, and reading-room. It measures 350 ft in length, and covers a superficial area of 28,000 square feet. It was constructed by Messrs. Barnett and Bonnycastle, contractors, from the designs of the Government architect, and cost a little over £30,000.5 |
| Research Note | The contractors Barnett & Bonnycastle were brothers-in-law. Edward William Barnett married Harry Cottrell Bonnycastle's sister Emily. |
| Note. | The Illustrated London News, January 1874, has an article about Caracas Venezuela with four illustrations. It is noted that the illustrations are from sketches by Mr H Bonnycastle. [Did he travel there?]6 |
| Note. | The image of this painting was found online at a 2003 art auction catalogue. The oil on canvas piece, 59.5 x 49 cm in size, was attributed to 'H Bonnycastle', undated, and was valued at £250 to £350.7 The Organ Grinder Oil painting attributed to H Bonnycastle |
| Death | He died on 10 Jun 1899 in Nice, France. Details from the certificate [the original is in French]: Henry Bonny-Castle, single, died at 2 Halévy Street at one a.m., profession Engineer, age 64 years 10 months, born at London England, lived in Nice. Information about the death was provided to the Municipal Councillor Jacques Serraire by Joseph Bonifassi, age 41, lemonade seller and Albert Simm, age 33, electrician, both unrelated to Henry and residents of Nice.8 |
| Last Edited | 24 Jan 2022 |
Citations
- Baptisms of St George Hanover Square, Middlesex. registers from Westminster Archives. Image viewed at Findmypast.com, Harry Cottrell Bonnycastle, 1834, #517.
- 1841 Census for England & Wales, HO107/484 Book 4 Folio 35.
- Ancestry.com databases, New York Passenger Lists.
- E-mails from John Gould to J Kolthammer.
- The Illustrated London News, Volume 60 1872 Jan-Jun. Viewed at Hathi Trust Digital Library.
- The Illustrated London News, Volume 64, January 1874. Viewed at Hathi Trust Digital Library.
- http://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/…,-45-p-5p2b42lj51.
- The National Archives of the UK; General Register Office: Miscellaneous Foreign Death Returns; Class: RG 35; Piece: 35. Henry Bonny-Castle death, Nice, 1899. Image of original document viewed at Ancestry.com.