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BUNBURY—BUNCE—BUNN—BUNSTER—BURBIDGE. March, 1829, and 19 Feb. 1830, a Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the and  74’s, Capt. Hugh Pigot, lying in the Downs for the purposes of the Coast Blockade; next joined, 25 July, 1831, the  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. 

, 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 84, Capt. Wm. Furlong Wise, in the Mediterranean – 15 March, 1837, to the 74, Capt. Alex. Renton Sharpe, off Lisbon – 29 Aug. 1837, to the 104, as Acting Flag-Lieutenant to Rear-Admiral Hon. Duncombe Pleydell Bouverie, Superintendent at Portsmouth – 9 Dec. 1837, to the  104, bearing the flag in the Mediterranean of Hon. Sir Robt. Stopford – and 20 Jan. and 27 July, 1838, to the 36, Capt. Edw. Collier, and 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. – Messrs. Halford and Co.

 BUNBURY. 

. See.

 BUNCE. 

passed his examination in 1831; obtained his commission 28 June, 1838; was appointed, 27 Aug. in the same year, to the 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 26, Capt. Wm. Nugent Glascock, in the Mediterranean. – Messrs. Stilwell.

 BUNN. 

entered the Navy, 23 Oct. 1805, as A.B., on board the 28, Capt. John Pengelly, stationed in the North Sea; removed, as Midshipman, in July, 1806, to the  38, Capt. Philip Bowes Vere Broke, lying at Sheerness; and, on subsequently joining the  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 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 74,  74,  110,  98, and also in the  74, in which ship that officer hoisted his flag as Commander-in-Chief in the East Indies. While in the 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 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 36, Capt. Brian Hodgson. He has since been on half-pay. – J. Woodhead.

 BUNSTER. 

entered the Navy, 18 April, 1806, as L.M., on board the 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 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 74, Capt. Hon. Thos. Bladen Capel, one of the North Sea fleet. He was next transferred, in Jan. 1813, to the 74, Capt. Geo. Parker, on the Mediterranean station; and, in Aug. of the same year, he became attached, as Acting Second-Master, to the 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 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. 

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 74, Capt. John Bazely, one of the  fleet on the memorable 1st of June. In Nov. 1794, he accompanied the same officer into the 74, and, after sharing with him in Admiral Hotham’s partial engagement with the French fleet off Hyeres, 13 July, 1795, when the  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 110, and was paid off; but he did not resume active service until 1 Jan. 1807, when he joined the  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 ’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 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  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 36, and  64, Capts. Wm. Selby and Robt. Campbell. He was then transferred with the latter officer, in the same capacity, to the 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, a commission, dated back to 28 Feb. 1815, appointing him to the 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 and all