Sir Charles Bunbury, 8th Baronet

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Sir Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th Baronet, FRS (4 Feb 1809 – 18 Jun 1886) was an English naturalist.

He was born in Messina, the eldest son of Sir Henry Bunbury, 7th Baronet and Louisa Amelia Fox and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. He married Frances Joanna Horner, daughter of Leonard Horner, on 31 May 1844 in London. They had no children.

He was a Justice of the Peace and deputy lieutenant for Suffolk and in 1868 was appointed High Sheriff of Suffolk.

He was a keen botanist and geologist with a particular interest in paleobotany. He collected plant specimens on expeditions to South America in 1833 and South Africa in 1838. he also accompanied his great friend Sir Charles Lyell, the geologist, on an expedition to Madeira. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1851.

He died at Barton Hall, Bury, Suffolk in 1886 and was succeeded in his title by his younger brother Sir Edward Herbert Bunbury, 9th Baronet.

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Sir Charles James Fox Bunbury (1809-1886), 8th Baronet, of Barton Hall, Bury, Suffolk

Sir Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th Bt.

M, #79957, b. 4 February 1809, d. 18 June 1886

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    Sir Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th Bt. was born on 4 February 1809 at Messina, Sicily, Italy.2 He was the son of Lt.-Gen. Sir Henry Edward Bunbury, 7th Bt. and Louisa Emilia Fox.1 He married Frances Joanna Horner, daughter of Leonard Horner, on 31 May 1844 at St. George's Church, St. George Street, Hanover Square, London, England.2 He died on 18 June 1886 at age 77 at Barton Hall, Bury, Suffolk, England, without issue.2 His will was probated on 6 September 1886, at over £38,000.2

Sir Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th Bt. was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England.2 He succeeded to the title of 8th Baronet Bunbury, of Bunbury and Stanney, co. Chester [E., 1681] on 13 April 1860.1 He held the office of High Sheriff of Suffolk in 1868.1
Citations

  1. [S37] Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 583. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.

2. [S15] George Edward Cokayne, editor, The Complete Baronetage, 5 volumes (no date (c. 1900); reprint, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1983), volume IV, page 119. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Baronetage.
Arms: Bunbury quartering Hanmer, North and ......, impaling Horner.

Motto: Esse Quam Videri

This bookplate was most probably made after Sir Charles succeeded his father in the Baronetcy, in 1860.

He was the son of Lt.-Gen. Sir Henry Edward Bunbury, (1778-1860), 7th Bt. and Louisa Emilia Fox dau. of General the Hon. Henry Edward Fox (1771-1811) who was the younger brother of Charles James Fox.

His aunt Caroline Amelia Fox was m. to Lt.-Gen. Sir William Francis Patrick Napier, who fought in the Peninsular War and wrote History of the war in the peninsula and in the south of France : from the year 1807 to the year 1814. His brother was Lieut. General Sir George Thomas Napier (1784-1855), also a veteran from the Peninsular War and Commander-in-Chief of the Army in the Cape Colony.

He married Frances Joanna Horner, daughter of Leonard Horner, on 31 May 1844 whose elder sister Mary Horner was married to the geologist Charles Lyell.

A famous botanist and plant collector, accompanied Lieutenant-General Sir George Napier to Cape of Good Hope in 1837, elected to the Royal Society in 1851, author of numerous papers on Geographical Botany and on Fossil Plants.

Published Journal of a Residence at the Cape of Good Hope in 1848; and Botanical Fragments in 1883, botanical observations made in South Africa & South America. His wife published Life, Letters, and Journals of Sir Charles J.F. Bunbury, Bart., edited by Frances Joanna Bunbury, 3 vols., London 1894.

In 1833-35 he visited Argentina Uruguay and Brazil travelling from from Rio de Janeiro to Minas Gerais where his uncle Henry Fox - an amateur botanist - was H.M. Minister (see, Sir Charles James Fox Bunbury, Brazil, Account of a Journey in Brazil in 1833-35, and Portuguese translation, Narrativa de viagem de um naturalista ingles ao Rio de Janeiro e Minas Gerais, 1833-35, Imprensa Nacional: Rio de Janeiro, 1943).

In 1853-54 he travelled to Madeira where he also collected a herbarium.