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Bunbury, Henry Edward, 1778-1860
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1778-1860
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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.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.