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.
BUND, WILLIAM, son of William Bund, Wick Episcopi, Worcs., barrister, and his first wife Mary, dau. of John Parsons, Overbury, Worcs.; b.; adm. (aged 14) Feb 1750/1 (Hawkins'); in school list 1752; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm. pens. 27 May 1753, scholar 1754, matr. Mich. 1753; adm. Gray’s Inn 4 Nov 1752, called to bar 1761; m. 29 Jul 1763 Catherine, third dau. of John Dandridge, Great Malvern, Worcs. [presumably will proved PCC 28 Mar 1772, or 9 Apr 1774, both testators of St. John in Bedwardine, Worcs. ]
Bune, John Cuthbert, son of Frank Cuthbert Bune, barrister-at-law, of Beckenham, and Gladys, d. of Henry Collins of Bromley, Kent; b. 17 Apr. 1914; adm. Sept. 1927 (A); left July 1932; St Cath. Coll. Camb., matric. 1933, BA 1936; Roy. Fusiliers 1939, transf. Parachute Regt (Maj.); m. Hilda Dorothy, d. of H. W. Thompson of Sydney, NSW; killed in action at Arnhem 17 Sept. 1944.
John Cuthbert Bune was born at Beckenham, Kent on the 17th of April 1914 the eldest son of Frank Cuthbert Bune, a barrister at law, and Gladys (nee Collins) Bune of 14, Oakwood Avenue, Beckenham, Kent, later of Lucas Grange, Haywards Heath in Sussex. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Ashburnham from September 1927 to July 1932. He was a member of the 1st Cricket XI in 1932. He served as a Lance Corporal in the Officer Training Corps and achieved a School Certificate in December 1930. He then attended St Thomas’ Hospital Medical School. He matriculated for St Catherine’s College, Cambridge on the 2nd of November 1933 where he read English and Law and graduated with a BA on the 23rd of June 1936. He won a Half Blue for Swimming in 1936 and was also a member of the University Water Polo team when they played Oxford in 1936. He went on to study law and was called to the Bar in 1941.
He was married at St Clement Danes, Strand on the 25th of November 1939 to Hilda Dorothy (nee Thompson) of Barton-on-Sea in Hampshire. They had two daughters, Susan S. born in 1940 and Alexandra J. C., born on the 9th of September 1943.
He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 11th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) on the 2nd of September 1939 and rose to the rank of Major before transferring to the Parachute Regiment on the 18th of April 1944. By September 1944 he had been appointed as second in command of the 1st Battalion, Parachute Regiment.
At 8pm on the 15th of September 1944 John Bune was called to an officer’s briefing to receive orders for the Battalion’s part in Operation Market Garden, an airborne operation in conjunction with land forces to secure a river crossing across the Lower River Rhine, which was due to begin just 36 hours later. All other personnel were briefed the following day.
On the morning of the 17th of September 1944, the Battalion moved to Barkston Heath airfield where they boarded transport aircraft and took off at 11.30am. They landed at Renkum Heath, to the west of the town of Arnhem, at between 2.03pm and 2.08pm and had assembled by 2.45pm with only three men missing. They moved off from the drop zone at 3.40pm. Twenty minutes later they arrived at a railway station where they were briefed by an officer of the Reconnaissance Corps that there were enemy troops further up the railway line to their east and tanks on the road to the north. Unable to get up the railway line, they set out up the Amsterdamseweg, by which time the enemy tanks had withdrawn. At 5pm R Company attacked strong enemy positions astride the road, inflicting heavy casualties among the enemy troops and forcing them back. The Company then advanced to the Wolfhezerweg junction, where they became heavily engaged with enemy tanks and infantry and were unable to disengage when the rest of the Battalion went around this obstacle. Contact with R Company was lost at 6pm.
At 7.30pm, John Bune was sent back to make contact with R Company, returning at 10pm with the second in command of the Company who reported that, although they had managed to disengage, forward progress was slow as half of his men had become casualties and were in need of evacuation. The Battalion Medical Officer was ordered to take all available jeeps to evacuate the wounded with John Bune joining this party for the return to R Company’s positions. Although the convoy of wounded later reached Oosterbeek and were delivered to the dressing station at the Hartenstein Hotel, John Bune’s group is believed to have run into an ambush in the vicinity of the Dreyenseweg during which he was killed. He was recorded as missing at 3am the following morning. His body was recovered and was buried alongside the Dreyenseweg but was later exhumed and moved to its present location.
The St Catharine’s Society Magazine wrote of him: -
“It has been said that soldiering was among the last professions that John Bune would have chosen, for by instinct he was independent and Bohemian, impatient of routine and of a systematic society; but once in arms he turned the circumstance to glorious account. For the first four and a half years of the war he was in the Royal Fusiliers, and reached the rank of Major. Then, fearing that the years of his training might go for nothing, he transferred and became, in April 1944, second in command of the 1st Battalion, the Parachute Regiment. And so to Arnhem. Bune came to S. Catharine's from Westminster, and gained his Half- Blue for swimming. Literature was, perhaps, his strongest interest, but, like his father, he turned to law, and in 1941 was called to the Bar. He leaves a widow and two daughters.”
He is commemorated on the war memorial at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge.
He is buried at Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery Plot 27, Row B, Grave 6.
Bunting, Christopher Evelyn, son of Sheldon Arthur Stewart Bunting MBE MICE, of Bombay, India, and Kathleen, d. of William Collett; b. 8 Aug. 1924; adm. Sept. 1938 (B); left July 1939; Univ. of Bristol; Pembroke Coll. Camb., matric. 1947, BA 1949, MA 1956; an internat. career as ’cellist, teacher, composer and conductor; Boise Trav. Schol. 1951; studied under Eisenberg in USA, under Casals at Prades; Prof. of Violoncello, RCM; MBE Jun 2000; d. 27 July 2005.
Bunting, Paul Lidgett, brother of Christopher Evelyn Bunting (qv); b. 29 Dec. 1926; adm. Sept. 1941 (H); left July 1944; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1944; RN (FAA); accidentally killed on active service 5 July 1946.
Paul Lidgett Bunting was born at Queen’s Road, Bayswater, London on the 29th of December 1926 the son of Sheldon Arthur Steward Bunting MA, MBE, MICE, BSc an engineer for the Indian Public Works Department, and Kathleen (nee Collett) Bunting of 33, Kingsley Way, Hampstead, London N2 and of Northleach, near Cheltenham in Gloucestershire
He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Homeboarders from September 1941 to July 1944. He matriculated for Trinity College, Cambridge on the 1st of October 1944 as a Royal Navy Officer Cadet. He was posted to the Royal Naval School of Music near Burford, Oxfordshire.
On the night of the 4th/5th of July 1946, Paul Bunting was one of a number of Marines who were traveling in a lorry while returning from leave in Cheltenham to their base at Burford. At midnight the lorry was in collision with a civilian lorry at Hangman’s Stone, near Northleach. He died at the scene from a fracture to the base of his skull; his body was taken to Northleach mortuary.
The dead and injured were: -
Musician Charles Walter Montgomery (Died from injuries at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford) Musician G. De Peyer (Injured)
Musician Paul Lidgett Bunting
Musician B. Farmer (Injured)
Marine L. Midham (Head injuries)
Coporal C.W. Freeland
An inquiry was held into the accident which concluded that the naval lorry had been traveling over the centre line of the road at a speed of 30-35 miles per hour when the collision occurred. The Coroner concluded: - “There is no evidence here of undue speeding, and I think of the two drivers concerned, Ogden, the Royal Marine driver, was to blame for the collision. Whatever carelessness there was on his part amounts to nothing more than to justify me recording a verdict of misadventure.”
He is commemorated on the war memorial at Trinity College, Cambridge.
He is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial Panel 94.
Bunyan, John, son of John Bunyan LDS, of Hampstead, and Helen Edith, d. of Capt. W. East Webber RM, of Deal; b. 18 July 1935; adm. Sept. 1949 (B); left July 1953; Guy’s Hosp. Dental Sch.; LDS 1959; a dental surgeon, practising Harley Street, London; m. 1958 Lavinia, d. of Sir Peter Seligman CBE, chmn. APV Holdings Ltd.; d. 10 Aug. 2000.