Edward Bunbury

Sir Edward Herbert Bunbury, 9th Baronet (8 July 1811 – 5 March 1895), known as Edward Bunbury until 1886, was a British barrister and a Liberal Party politician.

Biography

Bunbury was the second son of Sir Henry Bunbury, 7th Baronet, and the grandson of Henry Bunbury; his mother was Louisa Emilia Fox, daughter of Henry Edward Fox. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge.[1] He was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1841.

In 1847, Bunbury was elected to the House of Commons for Bury St Edmunds, a seat he held until 1852. In 1886, he succeeded his elder brother in the baronetcy.

Bunbury died of pneumonia in March 1895, aged 83.[2][3] He never married and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his nephew, Charles.[3]

Work

Bunbury's two-volume history of ancient geography[4] published in 1879 is the first modern work in English which treats the textual sources with any sophistication.

He was also a contributing author to the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854–57),[5] and to a number of other reference works. Samuel Sharpe thought Bunbury had plagiarised his work on the Ptolemies.[6][7]

Notes

  1. ^ "Bunbury, Edward Herbert (BNBY829EH)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. ^ Freeman, Nicholas (2011). 1895: Drama, Disaster and Disgrace in Late Victorian Britain. Edinburgh University Press. p. 96. ISBN 9780748640560.
  3. ^ a b "Sir Edward Bunbury". The Times. No. 34519. London. 10 March 1895. p. 10.
  4. ^ Bunbury, Edward Herbert (1879). A history of ancient geography among the Greeks and Romans, from the earliest ages till the fall of the Roman Empire. London: John Murray. Volume 1Volume 2
  5. ^ Smith, William, ed. (1854). "List of writers". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Vol. I. London: John Murray. p. iv.
  6. ^ SS Diary entry 3 September 1850. "I certainly felt mortified on reading the articles on the Ptolemies in Dr. Smith's " Dictionary of Classical Biography." They were all written by E. H. Bunbury with the help of my " History of Egypt," and with-out any acknowledgment, though he even borrowed the volume from my brother Dan for the purpose."
  7. ^ Clayden, PW (1883). Samuel Sharpe. p. 82. Retrieved 10 May 2016.

Further reading

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Bury St Edmunds
1847–1852
With: The Earl Jermyn 		Succeeded by
Baronetage of England
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(of Stanney Hall)
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