BULPEN, JOHN, son of John Bulpen, London; b.; adm.; QS 1707; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1711, adm. pens. 31 May 1711, aged 18, scholar 15 May 1712; BA 1714/5; MA 1718.
BULTEEL, JAMES COURTENAY, son of James Bulteel, Fleet, Devon, and Mary, only dau. of Courtenay Crocker, Lyneham, Devon; b.; adm. (aged 12) Oct 1733; left 1738; Balliol Coll. Oxford, matr. 15 Dec 1738; m. 16 Jul 1744 Margery Edgecombe; d. 9 Oct 1746.
BUNBURY, ---; b.; in under school list 1715.
BUNBURY, CHARLES JOHN, elder son of Henry William Bunbury (qv); b. 2 Nov 1772; adm. 21 Jan 1782; expelled for taking part in the rebellion “up School” against Samuel Smith (qv), Head Master, autumn 1786; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 23 Jun 1790, matr. 1793; BA 1795; Ensign, Independent Co. of Foot, 20 Sep 1794; Lieut., 25th Light Dragoons, 3 Sep 1794 [check]; Capt., 21 Feb 1795; 52nd Foot, 17 Nov 1797; the “Master Bunbury” painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds in 1780; m. 6 Mar 1797 Frances Davison, afterwards Mrs Sydenham; d. at Cape of Good Hope 2 May 1798.
BUNBURY, SIR HENRY EDWARD, BART., son of Henry William Bunbury (qv); b. 4 May 1778; in school list Christmas 1788 (see also Memoirs and Remains of Sir H. E. Bunbury, Bart., 1868); spoke the prologue to Townley’s High Life below Stairs, acted by the Town Boys, Dec. 1789 (Annual Register, 1790, Appendix, 134-5); Page of Honour to Queen Charlotte c. 1787 – Jan 1795; Ensign, 2nd Foot Guards, 14 Jan 1795; Capt., 16th Light Dragoons 16 Aug 1797; Maj., 9th West India Regt., 11 Mar 1802; Lieut. -Col. in the Army, and Assist. QMG 31 Dec 1803; Lieut. -Col., Newfoundland Fencibles, 28 Mar 1805; Brevet Col., 1 Jan 1812; Maj. -Gen., 4 Jun 1814; Lieut. -Gen., 22 Jul 1830; served on Duke of York’s staff on expedition to Netherlands, 1799; QMG to Sir James Craig’s Expeditionary Force in Southern Italy and Sicily, 1805; Chief of Staff to Sir John Stuart (qv) at battle of Maida, 1806; Under-Secretary of State, War and the Colonies, 2 Nov 1809 - 5 Jul 1816; KCB 2 Jan 1815; succ. his uncle as 7th baronet, 31 Mar 1821; High Sheriff, Suffolk, 1825-6; MP Suffolk 1830-2; Vice-Lieut., Suffolk; a pioneer of the volunteer movement; FSA (by 1831); member, Society of Dilettanti, 1830; author, Correspondence of Sir Thomas Hanmer, Bart., 1838, and other works; m. 1st, 4 Apr 1807 Louisa Emilia, dau. of Gen. Hon. Henry Edward Fox; m. 2nd, 22 Sep 1830 Emily Louisa, dau. of Col. Hon. George Napier; d. 13 Apr 1860. DNB.
BUNBURY, HENRY WILLIAM, younger son of Sir William Bunbury, Bart. (qv); b. Jul 1750; in sch. lists 1764, 1765; St. Catherine’s Hall, Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 30 Jan 1768, readm. 1 Feb 1771; travelled in France 1767 and Italy 1769-70, studying drawing at Rome; [presumably Commissioner of Army Accounts 17 May 1775 – 31 Jul 1783]; an amateur artist and caricaturist, with a good deal of grotesque drollery; his drawings are chiefly in pencil or chalk; an etching of “A Boy riding upon a Pig”, executed by Bunbury when at school, is preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings, British Museum; m. 1771 Katherine, sister of Charles Horneck (qv); d. 7 May 1811. DNB.
BUNBURY, SIR THOMAS CHARLES, BART., eldest son of Sir William Bunbury, Bart. (qv); b. May 1740; adm. Apr 1751 (Watts'); in school list 1754; St. Catherine’s Hall, Cambridge, adm. 17 Apr 1756, matr. Mich. 1757; MA 1765; Grand Tour (Italy) 1760-1; MP Suffolk 1761-84, 1790-1812; Secretary to Embassy, Paris, Aug 1763 - May 1765, and Chief Secretary to Lord Lieut. Ireland, Jun-Aug 1765, but did not perform duties of either post; succ. father as 6th baronet, 11 Jun 1764; High Sheriff, Suffolk 1788; a well-known owner of racehorses, including Diomed, winner of the first Derby, 1780, Eleanor, winner of the Oaks and Derby, 1801, and Smolensko, winner of the Two Thousand Guineas and Derby, 1813; m. 1st, 2 Jun 1762 (div. 1776) Lady Sarah Lennox, sister of Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond and Lennox (qv); m. 2nd, 21 Nov 1805 Margaret Cocksedge; d. 31 Mar 1821.
BUNBURY, THOMAS, eldest son of John Bunbury, Ireland; b.; adm.; KS; according to a testimonial signed by William Rowe, 24 Apr 1654 (Chapter Muniments 43083), “Thomas Bunbury of the foundation of Westminster Schoole, of the 7th forme, and the 8th in precedency of those that stand for this present election to the Universities” was the son of John Bunbury, who “was despoyled of his estate by the Rebellion in Ireland and after served the Parliament for bringing in the Assessments for Ireland and otherwise”; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1654, adm. pens. 30 Jun 1654, scholar 1654, matr. Easter 1656; BA 1657/8; Trinity Coll. Dublin, MA 1661; ordained; Prebendary of Ferns; Prebendary of Leighlin, 2 Apr 1668; d. c. 1682.
BUNBURY, SIR WILLIAM, BART., fourth son of Sir Henry Bunbury, Bart., MP, and Susanna, sister of Sir Thomas Hanmer, Bart. (qv); bapt. Chester Cathedral 16 Nov 1709 (IGI); adm. (aged 13) Apr 1724; St. Catherine’s Hall, Cambridge, adm. pens. 5 Apr 1727, 4th in ordo 1730/1; BA 1730/1; MA 1734; DD Oxford 23 Jun 1755; Fellow of St. Catherine’s Hall, 1733-7; adm. Inner Temple 21 Nov 1729; ordained priest (Norwich) Jul 1736; Vicar of Mildenhall, Suffolk, from 1736; succ. his brother as 5th baronet, 10 Apr 1742; inherited Cheshire estates of Bunbury family, and in 1746 the Suffolk estates of his uncle Sir Thomas Hanmer, Bart. (qv); Rector of Reed, Herts., 1748-58; m. 16 Mar 1736 (IGI) Eleanor, dau. of Vere Graham, Wix Abbey, Essex, and Holbrook Hall, Waddingfield, Suffolk; d. 11 Jun 1764.
BUNCOMBE, JOHN; b.; adm. (aged 12) Jun 1737; left 1737.