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Bury, Henry, fl. 1812
GB-2014-WSA-04216 · Person · fl. 1812

BURY, HENRY; b.; adm. 29 May 1812.

GB-2014-WSA-01698 · Person · 1917-2017

Bury, John Bernard, brother of Kenneth de Kay Bury (qv); b. 10 July 1917; adm. Sept. 1930 (G); left July 1935; Balliol Coll. Oxf., matric. 1935; Roy. Signals 1940-5 (Maj. ); joined Shell Group 1947; dir. Shipping Fedn 1955-9; foreign member Portuguese Academy 1962; dir. Shell (Switzerland) 1964-6; Fellow commoner Churchill Coll. Camb. 1972-3; author of various works on Spanish and Italian art and architecture; m. 8 Sept. 1945 Anne Henderson MBE, d. of Duncan Henderson of Willingdon, Sussex; d. 18 Jan. 2017.

GB-2014-WSA-04217 · Person · 1916-2004

Bury, Kenneth de Kay, son of Edward Basil Bury of Dublin, and Phyllis Edwalyn Dunboyne, d. of Charles Augustus de Kay of New York; b. 13 Apr. 1916; adm. Sept. 1929 (G); left July 1934; King's Coll. Camb., matric. 1934, BA 1938; RA 1940-6; staff of LCC, later GLC, 1959-74; d. 23 July 2004.

GB-2014-WSA-04218 · Person · 1861-1946

BURY, OLIVER ROBERT HAWKE, son of Edward Bury, Westbourne Square, Hyde Park, London, barrister, and Mary Elizabeth, dau. of Henry Dowker, Laysthorpe, Helmsley, Yorks.; b. 3 Nov 1861; adm. 23 Jan 1874 (James'); left Dec 1878; a railway engineer, AMICE 5 Apr 1887, MICE 27 Feb 1894; began career in Locomotive Department, London and North-Western Railway Co.; General Manager and Chief Engineer, Entre Rios Railway, Argentina, 1894; General Manager, Buenos Aires and Rosario Railway, 1900-2; General Manager, Great Northern Railway (afterwards LNER) 1902-12, director 1912-45; one of Commissioners appointed to enquire into working and management of Egyptian State Railways, 1904; chairman, London Electricity Supply Corporation, and London Power Co.; JP (1917) Hertfordshire; d. 21 Mar 1946.

GB-2014-WSA-04219 · Person · 1919-1987

Bury, Patrick James, brother of Kenneth de Kay Bury (qv); b. 16 Feb. 1919; adm. Sept. 1932 (KS); left July 1937; St John's Coll. Camb., matric. 1937, BA 1948; RAF in WW2; d. in Rome 29 Aug. 1987.

GB-2014-WSA-04220 · Person · 1865-?

BURY, REGINALD FREDERICK, brother of Oliver Robert Hawke Bury (qv); b. 14 Feb 1865; adm. (J) 21 Jun 1878; left May 1880; MRCS LRCP 1892; medical practitioner at Leamington, Warwicks. (1901 Census); m. 21 Dec 1897 Annie Mabel, only dau. of Charles Howard, Gloucester Square, Hyde Park, London.

Bury, Walter Wilfred, 1863-?
GB-2014-WSA-04221 · Person · 1863-?

BURY, WALTER WILFRED, brother of Oliver Robert Hawke Bury (qv); b. 10 Aug 1863; adm. 21 Jan 1875 (James'); QS 1878; left Aug 1881; adm. solicitor Feb 1888; practised in London; m. 3 Feb 1910 Dorothy, eldest dau. of Bernard Gibson, Warrington Crescent, Maida Hill, London, dir. electrical engineering co.

Busby, ---, fl. 1564
GB-2014-WSA-04222 · Person · fl. 1564

BUSBY, ---; b.; adm.; a pensioner 1564 (tutor, the Dean); QS 1567-70 (Chapter Muniments 54005-18, 54020).

Busby, John, fl. 1641
GB-2014-WSA-04223 · Person · fl. 1641

BUSBY, JOHN, son of Timothy Busby, and nephew of Richard Busby (elected to Ch. Ch. Oxford 1624, qv); b.; adm.; Min. Can. 1641; KS in 1644; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1647, but detained at school “through the exigence of warre” (Register of Visitors of the Univ. of Oxford 1647 to 1658, Camden Society, 2nd ser., xxix, 268), Westminster Student; BA 1650; MA 1652; apparently expelled by the Parliamentary Visitors for neglecting to appear before them 1650, but restored by them in 1651; deprived of his studentship for a half year on account of a speech which he made at a funeral, “contayning matter of profanation and abuse of scripture” 8 Nov 1653 (ibid., 370-1); became a “fugitive” from Christ Church, but was again restored 6 Nov 1655; sometime an Usher at the School; described by Edward Bagshaw (KS 1644, qv) in his pamphlet of 1659 as “a worthless and infamous person”, who “grossly abused the liberty of whipping”, but Bagshaw’s opinion of the nephew of the Head Master was probably not free from bias; living 1660.