| AdminHistory | Sir Charles James Fox Bunbury was born at Messina in 1809 and was the son of Sir Henry Bunbury by his first wife, a niece of Charles James Fox. He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge and on leaving in 1837, he went with Sir George Napier to the Cape for rare plants, the results of which were published in Hooker's Journal of Botany. He also collected plants which he dispatched to W.H. Harvey. On his return in 1844, Bunbury married Frances, second daughter of Mr Leonard Horner, and sister of Lady Lyell. This family connected led to a deepened interest in geology and as well as being a botanist, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Geological Society. He was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society on 19 November 1833 and contributed 2 botanical papers to the Journal of the Linnean Society. He died 19 June 1886. |