BOND, Denis (1676-1747), of Creech Grange, Dorset.

A lawyer like his father, Bond was mooted as a candidate for Poole in February 1701 and a year later stood for Wareham, albeit unsuccessfully. In the run-up to the 1708 election, the Earl of Shaftesbury (Anthony Ashley*) described him as an ally of the ‘deluded Whigs’, by whom he meant the Junto. Returned for Dorchester at a by-election in 1709, Bond made no mark in the Commons during his brief tenure in this period and did not stand in 1713. Returned once more in 1715, he was classified as a Whig both in the Worsley list and in another comparative analysis of the two Parliaments. Bond continued to support the Whigs until he was expelled from the House in 1732 for his involvement in the frauds of the Charitable Corporation. He died on 30 Jan. 1747.PRO 30/24/22/59–60; Hutchins, i. 605.