Edward H Bunbury
Sir Edward Herbert Bunbury (8 July 1811 – 5 March 1895) was an English barrister and politican, the auhor of a two-volume History of Ancient Geography Among the Greeks and Romans from the Earliest Ages Till the Fall of the Roman Empire (1879) that was lauded as “admirable” at the time for its modern approach to tectual sources.
The 9th baronet of Bunbury, educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, he spent his formative years browsing through the library formed by his father, Sir Henry Edward Bunbury. He was a contributing author to the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854 – 57), and to other reference works, as well as revising and enlarging Sir William Gell’s The Topography of Rome and Its Vicinity.
He also gathered a noted collection of Greek and Republican or Imperial Roman coins as vice-president of the Numismatic Society of London, which was sold by Sotheby’s after his death.