Oh the instanity quest5/4/2023 ![]() This so angered the Russian authorities that they charged him with leaving Archangel in a clandestine manner. One year later, Bellingham secured his release and went to Saint Petersburg, where he attempted to impeach the Russian governor-general. Arbitration followed but Bellingham refused to make a compromise payment, which was less than half of that claimed, stating that it was a matter of principle. Van Brienen persuaded the local governor-general to imprison Bellingham. Bellingham accused Dorbecker, an associate of Van Brienen, of being the author of the anonymous letter. ![]() Bellingham, about to return to Britain on 16 November 1804, had his travelling pass withdrawn because of the alleged debt. Van Brienen believed Bellingham to be the author and retaliated by accusing him of a debt of 4890 rubles. Her owner, a Van Brienen, filed an insurance claim, but an anonymous letter was sent to Lloyd’s, alleging the ship had been sabotaged. In autumn 1803, a Russian merchant ship was lost at sea. In May 1804, he sailed, with his wife and young son, for Archangel. However, this initial business transaction was profitable, and he returned to Liverpool.īellingham decided to undertake a second venture, as a principal in partnership with Dorbecker. He chose as a contact a Dutchman called Conrad Dorbecker, who would go on to play a prominent role in Bellingham’s fate. In 1803, Bellingham gave up the Irish business and returned to Archangel acting as an export representative for a group of Liverpool timber traders. He went to work using his accounting skills for a company that specialised in trade with Ireland. He had no contacts in the city but met and married 19-year-old Mary Neville. In 1801, when he was 30 years old, Bellingham moved to Liverpool. He prospered in the firm and in 1800 was sent to Archangel, Russia, to supervise the Baltic side of the operation. 2 Bellingham then apprenticed himself to an accountant. ‘It was believed that he set fire to the house but could not be proven’. When this retail business burned down in a fire in 1794, Bellingham declared bankruptcy. Daw then helped him a third time by setting him up as a ‘tin-plate’ worker in London’s Oxford Street. Bellingham resigned from the post after the ship carrying him out to India was wrecked on rocks in the Azores, and he escaped in an open boat. Within less than a year, William Daw bought Bellingham a cadetship in the East India Company. Bellingham left the post within a few weeks. At 15 years of age, Bellingham was found a post as an apprentice goldsmith by his uncle William Daw. Eventually he was discharged as incurable and died in London in 1781.īellingham was described as an average, though diligent, student. Bellingham Senior was confined as a ‘pauper lunatic’ in St Luke’s charitable asylum in 1780. The Bellinghams moved back to St Neots in 1775 when John Bellingham was about four years old, presumably to be supported by his mother’s family. In early 1770, Bellingham Senior began to show signs of mental illness. His father, John Bellingham, was an artist who achieved some small success as a painter of miniature portraits. His mother came from a prosperous family in St Neots, Huntingdonshire. ![]() John Bellingham was born in London around 1771, the second child of the marriage.
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