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
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politician.
Biography
Bunbury was the second son of
Sir Henry Bunbury, 7th Baronet
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Life
Sir Henry, son of the famous caricaturist, Henry William Bunbury and Catherine Horneck, was educated at Westminster, and served ...
, and the grandson of
Henry Bunbury; his mother was Louisa Emilia Fox, daughter of
Henry Edward Fox
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Family
He was a son of Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland and Lady Caroline Lennox (1723–1 ...
. He was educated at
Trinity College, Cambridge
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. He was
called to the bar by the
Inner Temple
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in 1841.
In 1847 Bunbury was elected to the
House of Commons
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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.
He never married and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his nephew,
Charles
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.
Work
Bunbury's two-volume history of ancient geography 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), and to a number of other reference works.
Samuel Sharpe thought Bunbury had plagiarised his work on the Ptolemies.
Notes
References
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Further reading
*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bunbury, Edward, 9th Baronet
1811 births
1895 deaths
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Baronets in the Baronetage of England
Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
UK MPs 1847–1852
Members of the Inner Temple
Deaths from pneumonia in the United Kingdom