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Edward Herbert Bunbury

1811–95

Geographer. Brother of Charles James Fox Bunbury. BA Trinity College, Cambridge, 1833; MA 1836; classical examiner, 1842. MP for Bury St Edmunds, 1847–52. Wrote on the ancient geography of Greece and Rome. Succeeded to the baronetcy, 1886.

Sources

Alum. Cantab.

Modern English biography.

Bibliography

Alum. Cantab.: Alumni Cantabrigienses. A biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900. Compiled by John Venn and J. A. Venn. 10 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1922–54.

Modern English biography: Modern English biography, containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died since the year 1850. By Frederick Boase. 3 vols. and supplement (3 vols.). Truro, Cornwall: the author. 1892–1921.

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