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BUNBURY—BUNCE—BUNN—BUNSTER—BURBIDGE.
March, 1829, and 19 Feb. 1830, a Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Ramillies and Talavera 74’s, Capt. Hugh Pigot, lying in the Downs for the purposes of the Coast Blockade; next joined, 25 July, 1831, the Ganges 84, Capt. Geo. Burdett, in the Mediterranean; and, in Feb. 1832, was paid off. He has not since been employed.
He married, 3 Oct. 1836, Elizabeth, only child of Edwin Reeves, Esq., of Bath.
BUNBURY. (Commander, 1839 f-p., 12; h-p., 8.)
Richard Hanmer Bunbury, born in Dec. 1813, is fourth son of Lieut.-General Sir Henry Edw. Bunbury, Bart., K.C.B., late Under-Secretary of State for the War Department, by his first wife, Louisa Emilia, daughter of General Hon. Henry Edw. Fox.
This officer entered the Navy 23 Jan. 1827; passed his examination in 1833; and obtained his first commission 31 July, 1833. He was afterwards appointed – 14 Oct. in the same year, to the Thunderer 84, Capt. Wm. Furlong Wise, in the Mediterranean – 15 March, 1837, to the Minden 74, Capt. Alex. Renton Sharpe, off Lisbon – 29 Aug. 1837, to the Victory 104, as Acting Flag-Lieutenant to Rear-Admiral Hon. Duncombe Pleydell Bouverie, Superintendent at Portsmouth – 9 Dec. 1837, to the Princess Charlotte 104, bearing the flag in the Mediterranean of Hon. Sir Robt. Stopford – and 20 Jan. and 27 July, 1838, to the Castor 36, Capt. Edw. Collier, and Asia 84, Capt. Wm. Fisher, both on the latter station, where he was advanced to the rank he now holds 10 May, 1839. He has not since been afloat.
Commander Bunbury, who at present superintends the Police at Melbourn, Port Philip, married, 19 Dec. 1838, Sarah, daughter of Rich. Sconce, Esq., and has issue. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.
BUNBURY. (Commander, 1835.)
William Bunbury M‘Clintock Bunbury. See William Bunbury M‘Clintock.
BUNCE. (Lieutenant, 1838.)
Benjamin Holland Bunce passed his examination in 1831; obtained his commission 28 June, 1838; was appointed, 27 Aug. in the same year, to the Rover 18, Capts. Thos. Matthew Chas. Symonds and Chas. Keele, of which vessel, stationed in North America and the West Indies, he afterwards became First-Lieutenant; and from April, 1843, until Jan. 1847, served, in the same capacity, on board the Tyne 26, Capt. Wm. Nugent Glascock, in the Mediterranean. Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.
BUNN. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 11; h-p., 31.)
Thomas Bunn entered the Navy, 23 Oct. 1805, as A.B., on board the Pegasus 28, Capt. John Pengelly, stationed in the North Sea; removed, as Midshipman, in July, 1806, to the Shannon 38, Capt. Philip Bowes Vere Broke, lying at Sheerness; and, on subsequently joining the Ferreter 12, Lieut.Commander Henry Weir, was captured, on the night of 31 March, 1807, by seven Dutch gun-boats, after a sanguinary resistance, and carried into the river Ems. Soon afterwards, on regaining his liberty, he became attached to the Namur 74, Capt. Lawrence Wm. Halsted, and from July in the same year, 1807, until June, 1815, he served with the late Sir Geo. Burlton, in the Resolution 74, Rodney 74, Ville de Paris 110, Boyne 98, and also in the Cornwallis 74, in which ship that officer hoisted his flag as Commander-in-Chief in the East Indies. While in the Resolution Mr. Bunn attended the expedition to Copenhagen, in Aug. and Sept. 1807, and was with the force under Lord Gambier at the destruction of the French shipping in Aix Roads, in April, 1809. In the Boyne he took part, 5 Nov. 1813, and 13 Feb. 1814, in Sir Edw. Pellew’s skirmishes with the Toulon fleet. Obtaining a commission 4 Feb. 1815, he next, in 1815-16, served as temporary Lieutenant of the Owen Glendower 36, Capt. Brian Hodgson. He has since been on half-pay. Agent – J. Woodhead.
BUNSTER. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 9; h-p., 32.)
Grosvenor Bunster entered the Navy, 18 April, 1806, as L.M., on board the Monarch 74, Capts. John Clarke Searle and Rich. Lee. Under the latter officer he was with Sir Sam. Hood’s squadron at the capture, 25 Sept. following, off Rochefort, of four heavy French frigates, on which occasion the Monarch enacted a very conspicuous part, compelled La Minerve, of 44 guns and 650 men, to surrender, and sustained a loss of 4 men killed and 25 wounded. He attained the rating of Midshipman 8 June, 1807, and, continuing with Capt. Lee until 1812, was further employed in blockading the Tagus, in escorting, towards the close of 1807, the Royal family of Portugal to the Brazils, and in the expedition to the Walcheren in Aug. 1809. In Jan. 1812, he joined La Hogue 74, Capt. Hon. Thos. Bladen Capel, one of the North Sea fleet. He was next transferred, in Jan. 1813, to the Aboukir 74, Capt. Geo. Parker, on the Mediterranean station; and, in Aug. of the same year, he became attached, as Acting Second-Master, to the Caledonia 120, flag-ship of Sir Edw. Pellew, under whom he was present, on 5 Nov. ensuing and 13 Feb. 1814, in two partial actions with the French fleet off Toulon. From Sept. in the latter year, until Feb. 1815, Mr. Bunster served, as a Supernumerary, on board the Prince Frederick receiving-ship at Plymouth, Capt. Rich. Pridham. He obtained his commission on 8 of that month, but has not since been afloat.
Lieut. Bunster is married, and has issue.
BURBIDGE. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 14; h-p., 39.)
William Cave Burbidge was born 30 March, 1789, at Market Harborough, co. Leicester.
This officer entered the Navy, in Feb. 1794, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Alfred 74, Capt. John Bazely, one of the Victorious fleet on the memorable 1st of June. In Nov. 1794, he accompanied the same officer into the Blenheim 74, and, after sharing with him in Admiral Hotham’s partial engagement with the French fleet off Hyeres, 13 July, 1795, when the Alcide 74 was captured from the enemy, took part, under his successor, Capt. Thos. Lennox Frederick, in the battle off Cape St. Vincent, 14 Feb. 1797. He returned home in the following Nov. in the San Josef 110, and was paid off; but he did not resume active service until 1 Jan. 1807, when he joined the Nassau 64, Capt. Robt. Campbell. In that ship he attended the ensuing expedition to Copenhagen, where he received a severe uncompensated wound in the head, and (on the Nassau’s hard-wrought extrication from a mass of ice in which she had been blocked up during the winter) he was present, 22 March, 1808, in company with the Stately 64, at the capture and destruction, on the coast of Zealand, of the Danish 74, Prindts Christian-Frederic, after a running fight of great length and obstinacy, in which the Nassau suffered a loss of 9 men killed and 16 wounded. Between Nov. 1809, and Dec. 1810, Mr. Burbidge next served, off Cherbourg and in the Gulf of Finland, as Master’s Mate of the Owen Glendower 36, and Stately 64, Capts. Wm. Selby and Robt. Campbell. He was then transferred with the latter officer, in the same capacity, to the Tremendous 74, flag-ship afterwards of Sir Wm. Sidney Smith, in which he continued to be employed on the Home and Mediterranean stations until April, 1815. During that period he served in a battery at the reduction of Trieste in 1813, and, pending the siege of Venice, was much engaged with the flotilla at the mouths of the Po. Having passed his examination 10 Feb. 1812, Mr. Burbidge received, on leaving the Tremendous, a commission, dated back to 28 Feb. 1815, appointing him to the Alcmene 38, Capt. Jeremiah Coghlan, from which frigate he was paid off in Nov. following. For his conduct, in Oct. 1822, in saving H.M. cutter Vigilant and all
