Sir Henry Bunbury, 7th Baronet
Sir Henry Edward Bunbury, 7th Baronet
Life
Sir Henry, son of the famous caricaturist,
Bunbury succeeded to the baronetcy in 1821 on the death of his uncle,
Works
Bunbury was the author of historical works, the most notable being his military memoirs Narratives of Some Passages in the Great War with France, first published in 1854.
"Henry Bunbury's Great War with France is perhaps the most valuable record... which any soldier has bequeathed to us of the long struggle that began in 1793 and ended in 1815. and it derives its value from the fact that the author was not only a good soldier, well skilled in his profession, but that he was, as a staff officer, thrown with the best British commanders... of his day; that he had opportunities of discussing with them every point of military policy and the details of many important campaigns; and that further he was a highly educated gentleman, with a seeing eye, a kindly nature, a keen sense of the ridiculous, and a very real literary gift."[3]
Family
Bunbury married Louisa Amelia Fox, (daughter of General Henry Edward Fox and Marianne Clayton) on 4 April 1807. They had five children. He remarried Emily Napier (daughter of Lady Sarah Lennox and cousin of the Henry Edward Fox) on 22 September 1830.
The eldest son,
References
- ^ "No. 17004". The London Gazette. 18 April 1815. pp. 725–726.
- ^ Desmond Gregory, No Ordinary General: Lt. General Sir Henry Bunbury (1778-1860): The Best Soldier Historian (London: Associated University Presses, 1999).
- ^ Sir John Fortescue, from his Introduction to the 1927 edition
- ^ Cara Cammilleri, Bunbury, Henry William St Pierre (1812–1875), Australian Dictionary of Biography, Online Edition, Australian National University, ISSN 1833-7538
Leigh Rayment's list of baronets
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