Edward Bunbury

Sir Edward Herbert Bunbury, 9th Baronet (8 July 1811 – 5 March 1895), known as Edward Bunbury until 1886, was 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, daughter of General the Hon. Henry Edward Fox, younger son of Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, and his wife Lady Caroline Lennox, the eldest of the famous Lennox sisters. Through the latter he was a descendant of Charles II. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge.^[1] 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 in March 1895, aged 83.^[2] He never married and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his nephew, Charles.

Work

Bunbury's two-volume history of ancient geography (whose full title is A History of Ancient Geography among the Greeks and Romans from the Earliest Ages till the Fall of the Roman Empire) 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),^[3] and to a number of other reference works. Samuel Sharpe thought Bunbury had plagiarised his work on the Ptolemies.^[4][5]

Notes

References

• Smith, William, ed. (1854). "List of writers" Check value (help). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. I. London: John Murray. p. iv. 

Further reading

• Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990,
• Leigh Rayment's list of baronets
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
• Lundy, Darryl. "FAQ". The Peerage. 

External links

• Works written by or about Edward Herbert Bunbury at Wikisource
• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Sir Edward Bunbury