James Bonwick

James Bonwick FRGS
Born	1817
Died	1906
Residence	13 Alfred Rd, Acton [1869] c/o W. Beddow, 22 South Audley Street; St Kilda, Melbourne [1879] 2 Balmoral Terrace, Mill Hill Park, Acton, W [1881] Hayward's Heath, Sussex [1883] Yarra Yarra, South Vale, Upper Norwood SE [1888] 39 Sprules Road, Brockley, SE [1903]
Occupation	educator literary
Society Membership membership ESL, ASL, AI Ordinary Fellow left 1903 last listed elected_ESL 1869.06 elected_AI 1869 elected_ASL 1869.06.15 societies Royal Geographical Society

Notes

Office Notes

AI Council 1878 Member

House Notes

8 Jan. 1889: It was resolved that all future subscriptions from Mr James Bonwick should be remitted in consideration of his services to Anthropological Science.
death noted in report of the council for 1906: To the death of Mr. Bonwick attention has already been called in a short obituary notice published in Man, 1906, 25. He became a member of the Ethnological Society in 1869, and was subsequently a fellow of the Institute from the foundation of the latter. He was the author of several works, dealing chiefly with the natives of Tasmania. The Institute will greatly regret the loss of a Fellow of so long standing.

Notes From Elsewhere

James Bonwick (8 July 1817 – 6 October 1906) was an English-born Australian historical and educational writer.

Born Lingfield, Surrey, died Southwick, near Brighton.
Between 1841 and 1880s spent much of the time in Australia.

Publications

External Publications

John Batman (1867);
The Last of the Tasmanians, Daily Life and Origin of the Tasmanians, and Curious Facts of Old Colonial Days, all of which were published in 1870;
Egyptian Belief and Modern Thought (1878), First Twenty Years of Australia (1882),
Port Phillip Settlement (1883),
Romance of the Wool Trade (1887)
and Irish Druids and Old Irish Religions (1894).