Bunbury, Charles James Fox, Sir, 1809-1886
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Bunbury, Charles James Fox, Sir, 1809-1886
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Bunbury, Charles James Fox, Sir, bart., 1809-1886
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Bunbury, Charles, Sir, 1809-1886
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Sir Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th Baronet of Barton Hall, Suffolk, (4 February 1809 – 18 June 1886) was an English naturalist and Fellow of the Royal Society. He was born in Messina and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. He married Frances Joanna Horner; they had no children.
He was a keen botanist and geologist with a particular interest in palaeobotany. He collected plant specimens on expeditions to South America in 1833 and South Africa in 1838. He also accompanied his great friend Sir Charles Lyell, the geologist, on an expedition to Madeira. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1851.
He died at Barton Hall, Bury, Suffolk, in 1886 and was succeeded in his title by his younger brother Sir Edward Herbert Bunbury, 9th Baronet.
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Subjects
Fossil fuels
Fossil fuels
Mineralogy
Natural history
Paleobotany
Paleobotany
Paleobotany
Paleobotany
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Messina
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