Person:Jonathan Binns (13)

RELIGION: Christian - Religious Society of Friends.

BIRTH: 1847 - 1396.160 1397.237 Jonathan Binns, son of Jonathan and Elizabeth, of Cononley Woodside, born 22 xii 1747/8.

DEATH: 1812 - G.J. Binns gives 1812 as the date of death in his genealogical chart.

EDUCATION: c.1760 - Yealand Conyers School, Lancashire [letter to home from here indicates he was a boarder or lived with someone in the village] under tutelage of James Jenkinson who was held in high repute. c.1765 - Apprenticeship with Dr. Abraham Sutcliffe, Settle, Yorkshire, England. [Jonathan's maternal uncle] 1770-72 - University of Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. 1772 - Travelled to Leyden, Holland, then a centre of medical excellence - stay was brief. Degree conferred 12th September, 1772 after problem with taking an oath - form modified by Principal to meet the Quaker conscience. 1772 -Travelled to London - took examination for extra licentiate qualification. [Most of these notes are from writings of Jonathan Binns of Lancaster]

OCCUPATION: 1769 - Served with Messrs. Leigh and Bond, chemists, of Liverpool. 1772 - Doctor of Medicine 1781 to 1795 - Practised as a doctor in Lord Street, Church Street and Hanover Street, Liverpool. 1784 - (8th June) elected as a Corresponding Member of the Medical Society of London and published papers in their transactions in 1794 and 1803. 1788 - Honorary physician to Liverpool Dispensary [was a founder subscriber]. 1791 - one of the first officers of the Asylum for the Indigent Blind [also note Liverpool was first town in the UK to establish a school for the blind]. 1795 - School Superintendent [the third Superintendent of Ackworth School]. 1805 - Came to Lancaster and joined Dr. Campbell in medical practice in Brock Street.

AUTHOR: 1772 - "Dissertatio medica inauguralis de Exercitatione" pub. Balfour & Smillie, Edinburgh.

    The Wise for cure on exercise depend
    God never made his work for man to mend  DRYS

1780 - "The Refrangibility of Rays of Light" - a paper before the Liverpool Literary and Philosophical Society. 1790 - "A Spelling Book for the use of Ackworth School" - London: Printed & sold by James Phillips, George Yard, Lombard Street - 6 of the 2nd mo 1790 . Reprinted, see under Schools in the catalogue, p790. 1806 - "Observations on the Scarlatina Anginosa" published in the Medical and Physical Review.

RESIDENCES: 1747 - At birth - Woodside, Yorkshire, England. 1772-81 - Church Street,Liverpool, Lancashire, England. 1781-95 - Hanover Street, Liverpool, Lancashire, England. 1795-1805 - Ackworth School, Yorkshire, England. 1805-12 - Lancaster, Lancashire, England.

OBITUARY: At the British Medical Association Congress held in Liverpool in 1912, Dr. T.H. Bickerton, an eminent eye specialist added another note by quoting the Medico-Chirurgical Journal of 1857 - "The name of Dr. Jonathan Binns deserves lasting honour among the friends of humanity, since he and Mr. Rathbone were the only two Liverpool men among the original members of the society for the repression of the slave trade."

INITIAL_SOURCE: Leicester.

1. ↑ ? Arthur Chamney Leicester. An Account of the Family of the Binns from 1663 (Leicester Document). (Unpublished Family Tree).
2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Joseph John Binns (1839-1922). An Account of the Family of the Binns from 1663 (Sunderland document). (Largely collected materials from Friends' Registers)
   Line 8, pp 43-44.
3. ↑ Irene Stafford Ferguson in 1911; revised by Virginia Stafford Ferguson in 1984. An Account of the Family of the Binns from 1663 (Ferguson document). (Unpublished. An American version of the Binns family history.)
   p.22.
4. ↑ T. Cann Hughes, MA, FSA of Lancaster. A Lancaster Literary Family. (The Manchester Literary Club Papers 1932)
   p.223.
5. ↑ ^5.0 5.1 T. Cann Hughes, MA, FSA of Lancaster. A Lancaster Literary Family. (The Manchester Literary Club Papers 1932)
   p.225.
6. ↑ Isaac Henry Wallis. Frederick Andrews of Ackworth. (Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1924)
   p.7.
7.   Leslie and Alan Binns. Binns Family History Group. (Newsletters and e-mail source).
8.   Joseph John Binns (1839-1922). An Account of the Family of the Binns from 1663 (Sunderland document). (Largely collected materials from Friends' Registers)
   Line 8, pp 41-42.
9.   Irene Stafford Ferguson in 1911; revised by Virginia Stafford Ferguson in 1984. An Account of the Family of the Binns from 1663 (Ferguson document). (Unpublished. An American version of the Binns family history.)
   p. 22.
10.   Jonathan Binns, (1785-1871), of Lancaster. Extracts from a Manuscript Book.. (Unpublished).
11.   T. Cann Hughes, MA, FSA of Lancaster. A Lancaster Literary Family. (The Manchester Literary Club Papers 1932)
    p.233.
12.   Kenneth Wilson. Lothersdale Chart. (unpublished chart of Binns families derived from Lothersdale records).