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John Bolland

Hop merchant and MP
Male 1742 - 1829  (87 years)


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  • Name John Bolland 
    Relationshipwith Marion Murdoch Johnson
    Gender Male 
    Born 1742  Masham, Harrogate, Yorkshire North Riding, England, Kingdom of Great Britain Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Baptism 7 Feb 1742  Masham, Harrogate, Yorkshire North Riding, England, Kingdom of Great Britain Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Occupation Hop merchant and MP 
    WWW https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/bolland-john-1742-1829 
    Died 7 Jun 1829  Fetcham, Surrey, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Buried 15 Jun 1829  St Mary, Fetcham, Surrey, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Siblings 4 Siblings 
    Last Modified 24 Jan 2021 

    Father John Bolland, of Masham
              b. 1715
              d. 1776, Masham, Harrogate, Yorkshire North Riding, England, Kingdom of Great Britain Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 61 years) 
    Mother Margaret Procter
              b. Between 1715 and 1724
              d. Abt 1768  (Age ~ 53 years) 
    Married 15 Jul 1740  Thornton Steward, Yorkshire North Riding, England, Kingdom of Great Britain Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 

    Wife Elizabeth Gipps
              b. Abt Oct 1758
              d. 1837, Marylebone, Westminster, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 78 years) 
    Married 4 Jan 1779  St Margaret's, Canterbury, Kent, England, Kingdom of Great Britain Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 6] 
    Age at Marriage He was 37, she was 20  
    Children 
     1. Ann Bolland
              b. Abt 1779
              d. Abt Feb 1829  (Age ~ 50 years)
     2. Catharina Bolland
              b. Abt Nov 1781
              d. 7 Apr 1858  (Age ~ 76 years)
     3. Elizabeth Joanna Bolland
              b. Abt Jul 1783
              d. Abt 1861  (Age ~ 77 years)
     4. Rev. John Gipps Bolland
              b. 25 Oct 1788
              d. 21 Jul 1833  (Age 44 years)
     5. Frances "Fanny" Bolland
              b. 21 Feb 1792
              d. 14 Jan 1867, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 74 years)
     6. Sophia Bolland
              b. Abt 1794, Clapham, Wandsworth Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. 16 Oct 1852, Hastings, Sussex, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 58 years)
     7. Sarah Bolland
              b. 16 Oct 1795, Clapham, Wandsworth Find all individuals with events at this location
              d. Abt 1858  (Age 62 years)
    Last Modified 14 Mar 2021 

  • Notes 
    • Early Life
      John Bolland was born in Masham (Yorkshire) in 1742, the son of John Bolland, a grocer, and Margaret Procter.

      Career
      John was a hop and seed merchant - in 1790 he is listed as resident at Old Swain Stair in London. He became an MP very late in life (aged 72), as described in the History of Parliament Online:
      Bolland, described as being of St. Lawrence Poultney, London at his marriage, was a hop merchant, listed at 106 Upper Thames Street in 1791 and later at Mark Lane. In 1796 he acted as London agent for his wife’s uncle George Gipps* in the Canterbury election. He was a subscriber to the loyalty loan for 1797. He himself did not come into Parliament until he was 72. He was a paying guest of William Kenrick, who had offered the vacancy to the prime minister; but Bolland was not Lord Liverpool’s choice and his conduct suggests that he made his own bargain, unless it was influenced by his patron’s sale of the borough or by the post-war crisis.

      Though a silent Member, he opposed agricultural protection, 27 Feb., 1 and 3 Mar., and the East India Company pension to Lord Melville, 24 May 1815. He voted for retrenchment, 11 and 18 Mar., and after pairing for it on 20 Mar., again on 3 and 25 Apr. 1816. He was in the civil list minorities, 6 and 24 May. Though absent on 12 June, he authorized The Times to state that he would have voted with the opposition majority on the Rochester writ,3 and he was in the minorities of 14 and 20 June on public revenue questions. He was in the minorities on the composition of the finance committee, 7 Feb. and Admiralty retrenchment, 17 and 25 Feb., and against the salt duties, 25 Apr. 1817. He voted against Catholic relief, 9 May. He paired with ministers for the suspension of habeas corpus, 23 June 1817, and voted against censure of their use of informers against sedition, 5 Mar. 1818; but on 15 Apr. he was in the opposition majority on the ducal marriage grant and he opposed the continued restriction of cash payments by the Bank, 18 May. He voted for inquiry into popular education on Brougham’s motion, 3 June.

      Bolland did not seek re-election in 1818. That year he presented his son to the living of Fetcham, Surrey, the advowson of which he had purchased. He retired from business about 1825 and died at Clapham 7 June 1829, aged 87.


      Family Life
      John married Elizabeth Gipps and they had six daughters and one son:
      1. Ann, b. 1779
      2. Catharina, b. 1781 and who married the Rev. Herbert Oakeley
      3. Elizabeth Joanna, b. 1783 and who married her cousin William Bolland
      4. John Gipps, b. 1788 and who became a clergyman
      5. Frances, b, 1792 and who married Maj. Gen. Peter Fyers
      6. Sophia, b. 1794 and who married the Right Rev. John Lonsdale
      7. Sarah, b. 1795 and who married Maj. Gen. Sir William Reid


      Death
      John died on the 7th of June 1829 and was buried at St Mary in Fetcham, Surrey, on the 15th.

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 1742 - Masham, Harrogate, Yorkshire North Riding, England, Kingdom of Great Britain Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBaptism - 7 Feb 1742 - Masham, Harrogate, Yorkshire North Riding, England, Kingdom of Great Britain Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 4 Jan 1779 - St Margaret's, Canterbury, Kent, England, Kingdom of Great Britain Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 7 Jun 1829 - Fetcham, Surrey, England, United Kingdom Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBuried - 15 Jun 1829 - St Mary, Fetcham, Surrey, England, United Kingdom Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S0322] Yorkshire Baptisms, FindMyPast, (findmypast.co.uk), John Bolland; Masham, Yorkshire (N. Riding);North Yorkshire County Record Office; PR/MAS 1/4 page 20, 7 Feb 1742.

    2. [S0145] History of Parliament Online, The, Various, (https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org), John Bolland;https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/bolland-john-1742-1829.

    3. [S0071] National Burial Index for England & Wales, FindMyPast, (findmypast.co.uk), John Bolland; Fetcham, Surrey, 15 Jun 1829.

    4. [S0309] England Marriages, 1538–1973, FamilySearch, (familysearch.org), Bolland / Procter;(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NV8C-R3V : 10 February 2018), John Bolland and Margaret Procter, 15 Jul 1740; citing Thornton Steward,York,England, reference , index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society o, 15 Jul 1740.

    5. [S0309] England Marriages, 1538–1973, FamilySearch, (familysearch.org), Bolland/Gipps;(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NNW5-FPY : 10 February 2018), John Bolland and Elizabeth Gipps, 04 Jan 1779; citing St Margaret'S, Canterbury, Kent, England, reference item 4, index based upon data collected by the Genealogic, 4 Jan 1779.

    6. [S0323] Kent Marriages And Banns, FindMyPast, (findmypast.co.uk), Bolland/Gipps; Canterbury Cathedral Archives; U3/6; Page 33, 4 Jan 1779.