Edward Bunbury Explained

Sir Edward Herbert Bunbury, 9th Baronet (8 July 1811 – 5 March 1895), known as Edward Bunbury until 1886, was an English Barrister and a British 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. 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.^{[1] [2]} He never married and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his nephew, Charles.

Work

Bunbury's two-volume history of ancient geography^[3] 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),^[4] and to a number of other reference works. Samuel Sharpe thought Bunbury had plagiarised his work on the Ptolemies.^{[5] [6]}

Further reading

• Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
  • • Web site: Lundy . Darryl . FAQ . The Peerage.

Notes and References

1. Book: Freeman, Nicholas. 1895: Drama, Disaster and Disgrace in Late Victorian Britain. 2011. Edinburgh University Press. 96. 9780748640560.
2. Sir Edward Bunbury . 10 March 1895 . 10 . 34519 .
3. Book: Bunbury, Edward Herbert . A history of ancient geography among the Greeks and Romans, from the earliest ages till the fall of the Roman Empire. 1879 . John Murray . London . Volume 1Volume 2
4. 1 . List of writers . I . iv.
5. 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."
6. Book: Clayden. PW. Samuel Sharpe. 1883 . 82. 10 May 2016.