Charles Bunbury, 8th Baronet

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Charles James Fox Bunbury, after a drawing by Eden Upton Eddis (1812–1901)

Sir Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th Baronet (born February 4, 1809 in Messina , † June 17, 1886 in Barton Hall, Bury St Edmunds , Suffolk ) was a British naturalist and diary writer . Its botanical author abbreviation is " Bunbury ".

Live and act

Charles Bunbury was a son of Henry Edward Bunbury, 7th Baronet (1778-1860) and his wife Louisa Emilia Fox (around 1788-1828). He was born in Messina, Italy, when his father was stationed there as Head of the Quartermaster General Division of the British Army . When he was promoted to Undersecretary of the War Department in 1813 , the family moved to a family home in Mildenhall , Suffolk . In 1824, three years after the death of Thomas Charles Bunbury, 6th Baronet (1740-1821), his parents moved to the family estate in Great Barton , Suffolk. Bunbury was a sickly boy, so he spent a lot of time in spas and seaside spas. His mother aroused his interest in botany, his father supported his enthusiasm for minerals and geology. In 1829 Bunbury went to Trinity College in Cambridge and began studying there two years later, but without achieving a degree.

From 1833 to 1835 Bunbury was secretary to his uncle Henry Stephen Fox (1791-1846), who was the agent of the British government in Rio de Janeiro . Among other things, Bunbury collected plants there. On his return he became a member of the Linnean Society of London and the Geological Society of London and was a member of Holland House . In 1835 he was elected as a candidate for the Whigs by Bury St Edmunds for the House of Commons , but lost two years later in the British general election .

When his uncle George Thomas Napier was appointed governor of the Cape Colony in 1837 , Bunbury accompanied him to Cape Town . There Bunbury undertook a botanical excursion and got to know the botanists Carl Ferdinand Heinrich von Ludwig (1784–1847) and William Henry Harvey as well as the astronomer John Herschel . At the beginning of March 1839, Bunbury returned to England. In William Jackson Hooker's London Journal of Botany , he published a three-part series of articles about his Botanical Excursions in South Africa from 1842 to 1844. His Journal of a Residence at the Cape of Good Hope followed in 1848 .

In 1842 Bunbury took a short tour of France and Italy. He met Charles Lyell and shortly afterwards Leonard Horner (1785–1864), whose daughter Frances Joanna Horner (1814–1894) married Bunbury in late May 1844. The marriage remained childless. Because of his interest in geology and botany, Bunbury specialized in paleobotany . Bunbury began an extensive diary that gave detailed insights into the development of Victorian natural history.

On June 5, 1851 he was accepted as a member of the Royal Society . On the death of his father in 1860, Bunbury became 8th Baronet , of Bunbury in the County of Oxford and of Stanney Hall in the County of Chester , and moved with his wife from Mildenhall to Barton Hall. From 1868 on, Bunbury was High Sheriff of Suffolk .

Dedication names

William Henry Harvey named the Bunburia plant genus from the dog poison family in his honor .

Fonts (selection)

Books
  • Journal of a Residence at the Cape of Good Hope . John Murray, London 1848 ( online ).
  • Memoir and Literary Remains of Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Edward Bunbury, Bart. Spottiswoode & Co., London 1868. - as editor
  • Botanical fragments . Spottiswoode, London 1883
  • Botanical notes at Barton & Mildenhall, Suffolk . SR Simpson, Mildenhall 1889. - Edited posthumously by Frances Joanna Bunbury
Magazine articles
  • On certain undedcribed and rare plants found in Brazil . In: The Gardeners' Chronicle . Volume 1, Number 19, 1841, p. 294 ( online ).
  • Remarks on certain Plants of Brazil, with descriptions of some which appear to be new . In: Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London . Volume 1, Number 12, 1841, pp. 108-110 ( online ).
  • Botanical Excursions in South Africa . In: The London Journal of Botany . Volume 1, 1842, pp. 549-570 ( online ).
  • Botanical Excursions in South Africa . (Continued from page 570 of vol. I.) In: The London Journal of Botany . Volume 2, 1843, pp. 15-41 ( online ).
  • Botanical Excursions in South Africa . (Continued from page 41 of vol. II.) In: The London Journal of Botany . Volume 3, 1844, pp. 242-263 ( online ).
  • On some remarkable Fossil Ferns from Frostburg, Maryland, collected by Mr. Lyell . In: Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society Volume 2, 1846, pp. 82-91 ( online ).
  • Notes on the Fossil Plants communicated by Mr. Dawson from Nova Scotia . In: Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society Volume 2, 1846, pp. 136-139 ( online ).
  • On fossil plants from the Coal Formation of Cape Breton . In: Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society Volume 3, 1847, pp. 423-428 ( online ).
  • On the occurrence in the Tarantaine of certain species of Fossil Plants, associated in the same bed with Belemnites . In: Report of eighteenth Meeting of the British Association Meeting . Part 2, 1848, p. 64 ( online ).
  • On Fossil Plants from the Anthracite Formation of the Alps of Savoy . In: Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society . Volume 5, 1849, pp. 130-142 ( online ).
  • On some Fossil Plants from the Jurassic Strata of the Yorkshire Coast . In: Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society . Volume 7, 1851, pp. 179-194 ( online ).
  • Description of a peculiar Fossil Fern from the Sydney Coal Field, Cape Breton . In: Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society . Volume 8, 1852, pp. 31-35 ( online ).
  • On the Vegetation of Buenos Ayres and the neighboring districts . In: Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London . Volume 2, 1853, pp. 220-231 ( online ).
  • Notice of some appearances observed on Draining a Mere near Wretham Hall, Norfolk . In: Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society . Volume 12, 1856, pp. 355-356 ( online ).
  • Remarks on the Botany of Madeira and Tenerife . In: Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Botany . Volume 1, Number 1, 1856, pp. 1-35 ( online ).
  • On a remarkable Specimen of Neuropteris; with Remarks on the Genus . In: Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society . Volume 14, 1858, pp. 243-249 ( online ).
  • On some Vegetable Remains from Madeira . In: Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society . Volume 15, 1859, pp. 50-59 ( online ).
  • Notes on a Collection of Fossil Plants from Nágpur, Central India . In: Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society . Volume 17, 1861, pp. 325-346 ( online ).

literature

Modern
  • Janet Browne: Bunbury, Sir Charles James Fox, eighth baronet (1809-1886). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Volume 8: Brown-Burstow. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861358-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), As of 2004, accessed September 20, 2012.
  • WJ de Kock, DW Krüger (Ed.): Dictionary of South African Biography . Volume 3, 1977, ISBN 0624008495 , p. 118.
Contemporary
  • Frances Joanna Bunbury (Ed.): Memorials of Sir CJF Bunbury, Bart . 9 volumes, 1890-1893.
  • Frances Joanna Bunbury (Ed.): Life, letters, and journals of Sir Charles JF Bunbury , 3 volumes, [Women's Printing Society, London 1894].
  • Katherine M. Lyell (Ed.): The Life of Sir Charles JF Bunbury, Bart . 2 volumes, John Murray, London 1906 ( volume 1 , volume 2 ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ William Henry Harvey: The Genera of South African Plants: Arranged According to the Natural System . Cape Town 1838, pp. 416-417 ( online ).

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