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London West India merchant, partner with his brother Thomas Boddington of Clapton (q.v.), father of Samuel Boddington (q.v., MP for Tralee in 1807) and Thomas Boddington (1774-1862), uncle of Benjamin Boddington (1776-1855) and grandfather of Thomas Boddington the younger (q.v.).

1. Will of Benjamin Boddington merchant of London proved 03/09/1791. He confirmed the settlement of £10,000 on his wife Mary on the marriage in 1780. He left £20,000 in trust for his son Thomas, and his residuary estate to his son Samuel after a series of monetary legacies minutely detailed in his will and codicil of 1791.

2. Benjamin Boddington (1730-91), who was also a director of the South Sea Co., and of the Million Bank, treasurer and governor, City of London lying-in hospital, City Road, and a Dissenting Deputy, and his brother Thomas Boddington (1736-1821), who was [also] a West India merchant, a director of the Bank of England 1782-1809, of the London Dock Co., and of the Royal Exchange, and treasurer of the Dissenting Deputies 1793-1805, were both London members of the 1786-1790 Committee for the Repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts.

[accessed 09/10/2014].

1. PROB 11/1208/257.

2. 'Biographical Appendix: 1786-90 Committee', Committees for Repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts: Minutes 1786-90 and 1827-8, ed.  Thomas W. Davis (London Record Society, 1978), pp. 107-110. Available at