John Bicknell, the elder, was an English barrister and writer. He was co-author with Thomas Day of the abolitionist poem The Dying Negro from 1773. Bicknell has also been credited with Musical Travels through England, a pseudonymous satire on Charles Burney.
- Occupation
- poet, barrister
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Born
- 1746, 1740
- Died
- 1787
