Bond, Sir EDWARD AUGUSTUS, born at Hanwell, 31st December 1815, entered the British Museum in 1838, became keeper of the MSS., and in 1878 principal librarian. He has published catalogues of MSS. and fac-similes of Anglo-Saxon charters in the museum; and among other works, he has edited the Statutes of Oxford University (1853), Fletcher's Russe Commonwealth and Horsey's Travels in Russia in the 16th Century (1856) for the Hakluyt Society, Speeches in the Trial of Warren Hastings (4 vols. 1859-61), and Chronica
Monasterii de Melsa or Meaux (Rolls Ser. 3 vols. 1866-68). He has also helped to edit the Fac-similes published by the Palæographic Society, of which he is a founder and president. He was made LL.D. of Cambridge in 1879, a C.B. in 1885, and K.C.B. just before his death, 2d January 1898.