(1737 - 1818), 2nd. s. of John Bindley, distiller, of Smithfield, London; Peterhouse Camb.; FSA 1765; resided at Somerset Ho. as sen. commr. 1781 - 1818.
1763 - 4 Turin (by 22 Aug. 1763), Florence (Aug.), Rome (Oct. 1763 - mid-Jan. 1764), Naples (14 Jan. - Feb. 1764), Capua (21 Feb.) [England by 5 Jan. 1765]
Bindley had travelled from England to Turin with Louis Dutens, who sent a letter to Horace Mann in Florence by the hand of Bindley in August 1763.1 Mann, in turn, furnished him with a letter of introduction to Cardinal Albani at Rome in October.2 Bindley was in Rome by mid-January 1764,3 and was in Naples on 24 January.4 He passed through Capua on 21 February on his journey back to Rome.5 On 22 May 1764, James Martin visited Thomas Jenkins in Rome and was shown six pictures belonging to Bindley: an Apollo rewarding Merit & punishing Arrogance, two Madonnas - by Barocci and after Correggio, a bamboccianto alchemist, a Noli me Tangere by Pietro da Cortona, and a Landscape by Salvator Rosa.6
Bindley was back in London to receive his appointment to the stamp office in the Commission of Excise by 5 January 1765.7
1. SP 105/315, f.220 (22 Aug.). 2. SP 105/315, f.296 (19 Oct.). 3. Martin jnl.MSS (15 Jan. 1764). 4. SP 105/315, f.436 (Changuion, 24 Jan. 1764)). 5. ASN cra 1277. 6. Martin jnl.MSS. 7. Wal.Corr., 16:301.