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

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and a

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politician.

Biography

Bunbury was the second son of

Sir Henry Bunbury, 7th Baronet Sir Henry Edward Bunbury, 7th Baronet (4 March 1778 – 13 April 1860) was a British soldier and historian. Life Sir Henry, son of the famous caricaturist, Henry William Bunbury and Catherine Horneck, was educated at Westminster, and served on ...

, and the grandson of Henry Bunbury; his mother was Louisa Emilia Fox, daughter of

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. He was educated at

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. He was

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by the

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in 1841. In 1847, Bunbury was elected to the

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for

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, 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,

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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 ''

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'' (1854–57), and to a number of other reference works.

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thought Bunbury had plagiarised his work on the Ptolemies.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bunbury, Edward, 9th Baronet 1811 births 1895 deaths Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Baronets in the Baronetage of England

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Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1847–1852 Members of the Inner Temple Deaths from pneumonia in the United Kingdom

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