Sir Thomas Bond, 1st Baronet
Sir Thomas Bond, 1st Baronet (c. 1620–1685) was an English landowner who served in the household of Queen Henrietta Maria. He was born about 1620 in Peckham, the son of Dr. Thomas Bond and Catherine Osbaldeston; exact dates are not known. On 9 October 1658, before the Restoration, Charles II made him a Baronet. He also became Comptroller of the household of Queen Henrietta Maria, though it was rumored that he paid a large sum to gain the post.
After the Restoration, Bond owned a house in Pall Mall (recorded as having 20 hearths in 1674) and large estates in Peckham and Camberwell, plus land in Yorkshire at Kirkby Malham, Malham Dale and Fountains Fell. He bought a big estate from his brother-in-law Sir Thomas Crymes. Bond Street in Westminster is named after him. He built a new manor house at Peckham, which has since been demolished and now lies on the site of Peckham Hill Street.
Bond died in 1685 and was buried at St. Giles, Camberwell. His estate was later attacked by a fanatic Whig mob. He had married Marie de la Garde of Paris, and they had two sons, Henry (died childless in 1721) and Thomas (died 1732), who both became baronets, and a daughter, Mary Charlotte (c. 1656–1708), who married Sir William Gage, 2nd Baronet of Hengrave Hall.
The Bond family bore the arms argent, on a chevron sable three bezants, with a crest of a winged demi-horse ensigned with six stars. The motto Orbis non sufficit means "The world is not enough." Bond Street’s name and the motto have kept the Bond name in popular memory, and the idea that he is an ancestor of the fictional James Bond has become a cultural legend.
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