Education
New College.
New College.
Born at Trull in Somerset and educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, he became a Master of Arts in 1579 and soon afterwards was appointed Master of the Free School at Taunton (an appointment in the gift of New College). Although unqualified in medicine, he also began to practise as a doctor, and became highly respected as a physician. Bond was elected Member of Parliament for Taunton in the parliaments of 1601 and 1604–1611, and it is considered likely also that he was the John Bond who was chief secretary to the Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas Egerton.
He died in 1612 and was buried in Taunton parish church.
The antiquary Anthony à Wood described him as "a polite and rare critic, whose labours have advanced the commonwealth of learning very much".