Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-H by Frederic Boase

BULLOCK, RALPH. _b._ Morpeth 1841; apprenticed to Thomas Dawson of Tupgill 1851; rode his first race at Harrowgate 1853; won the Derby on Colonel Townley’s Kettledrum 1861; won Ascot vase and Goodwood and Doncaster cups on Tim Whiffler 1862; one of the very best jockeys in England; won 212 races 1854–62. _d._ Tupgill 23 Jany. 1863. _Sporting Review xlix_, 86, 203–5 (1863), _portrait_. BULLOCK, REV. WILLIAM THOMAS (_2 son of John Bullock of London_). _b._ London 1818; ed. at Magd. Hall Ox., B.A. 1847, M.A. 1850; C. of St. Anne, Westminster 1847–50; assist. sec. S.P.G. June 1850, sec. 1865 to death; chaplain at Kensington Palace 13 Sep. 1867 to. death; preb. of Oxgate in St. Paul’s cathedral 1875 to death; author of _Sermons on missions and other subjects_ 1879, of _Ecclesiastes_ in the _Speaker’s Commentary_ 1880 and of about 70 articles in Smith’s _Dictionary of the Bible_. _d._ Mentone 27 Feb. 1879. BULMER, HENRY TAYLOR. Artist at Preston where he painted the altar-piece at St. Augustine’s church 1840; decorated St. Cuthbert’s, North Shields, and several other churches; painted many portraits. _d._ Brook hill, Sheffield 6 Dec. 1857 aged 46. BULTEEL, HENRY BELLENDEN (_son of Thomas Bulteel of Plymstock, Devon_). _b._ Bellevue near Plymouth 1800; Educ. at Brasn. coll. Ox., B.A. 1822, M.A. 1824; fellow of Ex. coll. 30 June 1823 to 6 Oct. 1829; C. of St. Ebbe’s Oxford 1826 to 10 Aug. 1831 when his license was revoked by Bishop of Oxford for fraternising with dissenters and preaching in their chapels; built a large chapel behind Pembroke college, Oxford, his congregation were called Bulteelers; preached a sermon on 1 Corinthians ii, 12 before Univ. of Ox. at St. Mary’s 6 Feb. 1831 which created great excitement in Oxford and when printed went to 6 editions; author of _The doctrine of the miraculous interference of Jesus on behalf of believers_ 1832 in which he narrated how by means of prayer and intercession he had cured and restored to health 3 women; _The Oxford Argo by an Oxford divine_ 1845, an anonymous denunciation of the Puseyite party. _d._ The Crescent, Plymouth 28 Dec. 1866 aged 66. _Cox’s Oxford_ (1868) 244, 248; _Mozley’s Reminiscences_ (1882) _i_, 228, 350. BUNBURY, SIR CHARLES JAMES FOX, 8 Baronet. _b._ Messina in Sicily 4 Feb. 1809; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; contested Bury St. Edmunds 1835 and 1837; F.R.S. 5 June 1851; succeeded 13 April 1860; sheriff of Suffolk 1868. _d._ 18 June 1886. BUNBURY, SIR HENRY EDWARD, 7 Baronet (_younger son of Henry Wm. Bunbury the caricaturist 1750–1811_). _b._ London 4 May 1778; ed. at Westminster; ensign Coldstream guards 14 Jany. 1795; quartermaster general in Mediterranean 1805–9; lieut. col. Royal Newfoundland fencible infantry 1805–14; under secretary of state for war 1809–16; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815; L.G. 22 July 1830; succeeded his uncle as 7 Baronet 31 March 1821; M.P. for Suffolk 11 Aug. 1830 to 3 Dec. 1832, the county had been uncontested for 40 years before 1830; author of _Narrative of the campaign in North Holland_ 1849; _Narrative of certain passages in the late war with France_ 1852. _d._ Barton hall, Bury St. Edmunds 13 April 1860. _Memoir and literary remains_, _edited by his son Sir C. J. F. Bunbury P.P._ (1868). BUNBURY, HENRY WILLIAM ST. Pierre (_3 son of the preceding_). _b._ Brompton, London 2 Sep. 1812; ensign 43 foot 29 June 1830; lieut. col. 23 foot 9 March 1855 to 10 Jany. 1857 when placed on h.p.; C.B. 5 July 1855. _d._ Marchfield house, Bracknell 18 Sep. 1875. BUNBURY, THOMAS. Ensign 46 foot 25 March 1804; lieut. col. Rifle corps 5 Feb. 1824 to 24 April 1835; lieut. col. 67 foot 24 April 1835 to 9 Nov. 1846; L.G. 20 June 1854; colonel commandant Rifle corps 9 Feb. 1855 to death; K.H. 1835. _d._ London 13 April 1857. BUNBURY, THOMAS. Ensign 3 foot 13 Aug. 1807; major 80 foot 21 Nov. 1834 to 26 July 1844; C.B. 3 April 1846; K.T.S. _d._ 11 St. James’s terrace, Regent’s park, London 25 Dec. 1861. BUNN, ALFRED. _b._ 8 April 1796; a junior clerk in army medical department; stage manager of Drury Lane theatre 1823; manager of T.R. Birmingham 1819 to May 1825; one of 7 managers of Drury Lane one season; managed Drury Lane and Covent Garden theatres 1833; introduced orchestra stalls first used at Drury Lane 5 Feb. 1833; lessee of Drury Lane 1835–48; purchased for £2,000 dignity of a gentleman at arms formerly called gentleman pensioner 14 March 1836; bankrupt 17 Dec. 1840; adapted a great number of pieces for the stage; made his début in America at Niblo’s Saloon, New York in a literary and dramatic entertainment 11 Oct. 1852; said to be the original of Mr. Dolphin the manager in Thackeray’s _Pendennis_; (_m._ 1819 the succeeding). author of _The stage both before and behind the curtain, 3 vols._ 1840; _A word with Punch_ 1847; _Old England and New England_, _2 vols._ 1853; edited _The Vauxhall papers_ 1841. _d._ of apoplexy at Boulogne 20 Dec. 1860. _J. R. Planche’s Reminiscenses, vol. i_, (1872); _Dents Old and New Birmingham_ (1880) 385–7, 432, _portrait_; _I.L.N. iv_, 220 (1844), _portrait, xvi_, 141 (1850), _portrait_. BUNN, MARGARET AGNES (_eld. dau. of John Somerville of Marylebone, London, biscuit baker_). _b._ Lanark 26 Oct. 1799; made her first appearance on the stage at Drury Lane theatre 9 May 1816 as Imogine in Maturin’s tragedy of _Bertram_; created character of Bianca in Dean Milman’s _Fazio_ at Bath 6 Jany. 1818; played at Drury Lane 1816–18 and 1823–24, Covent Garden 1818–19. (_m._ 1819 the preceding). _d._ Blue Earth city, Minnesota Jany. 1883. _Oxberry’s Dramatic biog. v._ 163–74 (1826), _portrait_; _T. Marshall’s Lives of actors_ (1848) 73–8. BUNNETT, FANNY ELIZABETH. Author of _The golden balance or the false and the real_ 1859; _Nature’s school or lessons in the garden and the field_ 1859; _Louise Juliane, Electress palatine and her times_ 1862; _Linked at last_ 1871; translated _Shakespeare commentaries by G. G. Gervinus_ 1863, _3 ed._ 1877; _W. Luebke’s History of art_ 1868, and many other books. _d._ Budleigh Salterton near Exmouth 19 Feb. 1875 in 43 year. BUNNEY, JOHN COOPER. Established with Theodore Hook, _John Bull_ weekly paper 1820, published it 1820–50. _d._ Clerkenwell 22 June 1867. BUNNEY, JOHN WHARLTON. _b._ Charlotte st. Fitzroy sq. London 20 June 1828; apprenticed to a stationer in city of London; employed by Messrs. Smith and Elder, publishers to 1859; gave lessons in drawing; made drawings for John Ruskin in Switzerland and Italy; painted at Florence 1863–70 and at Venice 1870 to death; painted a picture of St. Mark’s Venice for J. Ruskin 1876–80; exhibited 8 pictures at the R.A., 2 at the B.I. and 10 at Suffolk St. Gallery 1853–81. _d._ Venice 23 Sep. 1882. _Catalogue of the exhibition of pictures and drawings of Venice, also a memoir of the late J. Bunney by A. Wedderburn_ 1882. BUNNING, JAMES BUNSTONE. _b._ London 6 Oct. 1802; architect in London; surveyor of Foundling hospital estates 1825; erected City of London school opened 2 Feb. 1837; surveyor to London cemetery company 1839; laid out Nunhead cemetery; clerk of the City of London’s works 23 Sep. 1843 to death; built Coal Exchange 1849, City prison Holloway 1852, Billingsgate market 1853, Metropolitan cattle market Copenhagen fields opened 15 June 1855; F.S.A. 1848, F.R.I. B.A. _d._ 6 Gloucester terrace, Regent’s park, London 7 Nov. 1863. BUNNY, ARTHUR. _b._ 5 May 1825; 2 lieut. Bengal artillery 8 Dec. 1843; brigade major siege artillery Lucknow Feb. 1858 to April 1858; col. R.A. 1 Oct. 1877 to 1879; L.G. 1 Oct. 1882; C.B. 24 May 1873, placed on retired list 26 July 1883. _d._ 40 Addison gardens north, Kensington 9 Nov. 1883. BUNSEN, FRANCES, Baroness de (_eld. dau. of Benjamin Waddington of Llanover, Monmouthshire who d. 19 Jany. 1828 in 80 year_). _b._ Dunston park, Berkshire 4 March 1791. (_m._ 1 July 1817 Christian Charles Josiah Baron de Bunsen, German ambassador in London 1841–54); published _A memoir of Baron Bunsen drawn chiefly from family papers by his widow 2 vols._ 1868, she _d._ Carlsruhe, Baden 23 April 1876. _A. J. C. Hare’s Life of Baroness Bunsen 2 vols._ 1882; _F. M. Muller’s Biographical essays_ (1884) 311–62; _Contemporary Review xxviii_, 948–69 (1876). BUNTING, REV. JABEZ (_only son of Wm. Bunting of Manchester, tailor_). _b._ Newton lane, Manchester 13 May 1779; Wesleyan minister at Oldham st. chapel Manchester 1803, stationed at London 1803, 1815 and 1833 to death, at Manchester 1805 and 1824, and Liverpool 1809 and 1830; sec. to the Conference 1814, president 1820, 1828, 1836 and 1844; senior sec. of Missionary Society 1833; pres. of Theological Institute 1835; M.A. Aberdeen 1818; D.D. Middleton Univ. U.S.A. 1835; superintended the Connexional literature 1821–4; his conduct in some of the Society’s affairs gave rise to the expression “Bunting Methodism.” _d._ 30 Myddleton sq. London 16 June 1858. _Life by T. P. Bunting_ (1859), 2 _portraits_; _Rev. W. H. De Puy’s Threescore years and beyond, New York_ 1873; _I.L.N. ii_, 208 (1843), _portrait, xxxii_, 642 (1858); _Illust. news of the world ii_, 37 (1858), _portrait_. BUNTING, REV. WILLIAM MACLARDIE (_eld. child of the preceding_). _b._ Manchester 23 Nov. 1805; Wesleyan minister at Salford 1824–7, Manchester 1827–9 and 1838–41, Huddersfield 1829–32, Halifax 1832–5, London 1835–38 and 1841 to death; edited _Select letters of Mrs. Agnes Bulmer_ 1842; contributed to _Wesleyan Methodist Mag._ _d._ at his residence Highgate Rise 13 Nov. 1866. _Memorials of the late Rev. W. M. Bunting, edited by Rev. G. S. Rowe_ 1870, _portrait_. BURANELLI OR BURINELLI, LUIGI. _b._ Ancona, Italy; officer of dragoons in the Pope’s army; valet to Stewart Drummond a monk known as the Abbé Stewart who was assassinated whilst bathing; servant to John Craufurd of 12 Grafton st. Bond st. London; a tailor at Penshurst near Tunbridge Wells; shot Joseph Latham dead at 5 Foley place, Regent st. London 7 Jany. 1855 after which he shot himself; tried for murder at Central criminal court 12 April 1855; hanged at Newgate 30 April 1855 aged 32. _The law on its trial by A. H. Dymond_ (1865) 178–94; _Central criminal court trials xli_, 633–61 (1855). BURCHAM, THOMAS BORROW. Educ. at Trin. coll. Cam., fellow 1832 to death, B.A. 1830; barrister I.T. 27 Jany. 1843; recorder of Bedford 1848–1856; magistrate of Southwark police court 1856 to death. _d._ Chingford, Essex 27 Nov. 1869 aged 62. BURCHELL, WILLIAM JOHN (_son of Matthew Burchell of Fulham, nurseryman_). _b._ Fulham 1783; schoolmaster at St. Helena 1805–10; explored South Africa 1811–15; explored Brazil 1825–30; executed at Rio Janeiro a series of views from which R. Burford’s panorama of that city was painted; F.L.S. 15 Feb. 1808; hon. D.C.L. Ox. 1834; lived at Fulham 1830 to death; his name is perpetuated in scientific names of many animal and plant species discovered by him; author of _Travels in Southern Africa 2 vols._