BUNNING, James Bunstone. b. London 6 Oct. 1802; architect in London; surveyor of Foundling hospital estates 1825; erected City of London school opened 2 Feb. 1837; surveyor to London cemetery company 1839; laid out Nunhead cemetery; clerk of the City of London’s works 23 Sep. 1843 to death; built Coal Exchange 1849, City prison Holloway 1852, Billingsgate market 1853, Metropolitan cattle market Copenhagen fields opened 15 June 1855; F.S.A. 1848, F.R.I. B.A. d. 6 Gloucester terrace, Regent’s park, London 7 Nov. 1863.
BUNNY, Arthur. b. 5 May 1825; 2 lieut. Bengal artillery 8 Dec. 1843; brigade major siege artillery Lucknow Feb. 1858 to April 1858; col. R.A. 1 Oct. 1877 to 1879; L.G. 1 Oct. 1882; C.B. 24 May 1873, placed on retired list 26 July 1883. d. 40 Addison gardens north, Kensington 9 Nov. 1883.
BUNSEN, Frances, Baroness de (eld. dau. of Benjamin Waddington of Llanover, Monmouthshire who d. 19 Jany. 1828 in 80 year). b. Dunston park, Berkshire 4 March 1791. (m. 1 July 1817 Christian Charles Josiah Baron de Bunsen, German ambassador in London 1841–54); published A memoir of Baron Bunsen drawn chiefly from family papers by his widow 2 vols. 1868, she d. Carlsruhe, Baden 23 April 1876. A. J. C. Hare’s Life of Baroness Bunsen 2 vols. 1882; F. M. Muller’s Biographical essays (1884) 311–62; Contemporary Review xxviii, 948–69 (1876).
BUNTING, Rev. Jabez (only son of Wm. Bunting of Manchester, tailor). b. Newton lane, Manchester 13 May 1779; Wesleyan minister at Oldham st. chapel Manchester 1803, stationed at London 1803, 1815 and 1833 to death, at Manchester 1805 and 1824, and Liverpool 1809 and 1830; sec. to the Conference 1814, president 1820, 1828, 1836 and 1844; senior sec. of Missionary Society 1833; pres. of Theological Institute 1835; M.A. Aberdeen 1818; D.D. Middleton Univ. U.S.A. 1835; superintended the Connexional literature 1821–4; his conduct in some of the Society’s affairs gave rise to the expression “Bunting Methodism.” d. 30 Myddleton sq. London 16 June 1858. Life by T. P. Bunting (1859), 2 portraits; Rev. W. H. De Puy’s Threescore years and beyond, New York 1873; I.L.N. ii, 208 (1843), portrait, xxxii, 642 (1858); Illust. news of the world ii, 37 (1858), portrait.
BUNTING, Rev. William Maclardie (eld. child of the preceding). b. Manchester 23 Nov. 1805; Wesleyan minister at Salford 1824–7, Manchester 1827–9 and 1838–41, Huddersfield 1829–32, Halifax 1832–5, London 1835–38 and 1841 to death; edited Select letters of Mrs. Agnes Bulmer 1842; contributed to Wesleyan Methodist Mag. d. at his residence Highgate Rise 13 Nov. 1866. Memorials of the late Rev. W. M. Bunting, edited by Rev. G. S. Rowe 1870, portrait.
BURANELLI OR BURINELLI, Luigi. b. Ancona, Italy; officer of dragoons in the Pope’s army; valet to Stewart Drummond a monk known as the Abbé Stewart who was assassinated whilst bathing; servant to John Craufurd of 12 Grafton st. Bond st. London; a tailor at Penshurst near Tunbridge Wells; shot Joseph Latham dead at 5 Foley place, Regent st. London 7 Jany. 1855 after which he shot himself; tried for murder at Central criminal court 12 April 1855; hanged at Newgate 30 April 1855 aged 32. The law on its trial by A. H. Dymond (1865) 178–94; Central criminal court trials xli, 633–61 (1855).
BURCHAM, Thomas Borrow. Educ. at Trin. coll. Cam., fellow 1832 to death, B.A. 1830; barrister I.T. 27 Jany. 1843; recorder of Bedford 1848–1856; magistrate of Southwark police court 1856 to death. d. Chingford, Essex 27 Nov. 1869 aged 62.
BURCHELL, William John (son of Matthew Burchell of Fulham, nurseryman). b. Fulham 1783; schoolmaster at St. Helena 1805–10; explored South Africa 1811–15; explored Brazil 1825–30; executed at Rio Janeiro a series of views from which R. Burford’s panorama of that city was painted; F.L.S. 15 Feb. 1808; hon. D.C.L. Ox. 1834; lived at Fulham 1830 to death; his name is perpetuated in scientific names of many animal and plant species discovered by him; author of Travels in Southern Africa 2 vols. 1822. d. Churchfield house, Fulham 23 March 1863. Journal of Royal Geog. Soc. xxxiii, 124 (1864).
BURCHETT, Richard. b. Brighton 30 Jany. 1815; entered school of design at Somerset House about 1841, assistant master 1845, head master 1851 to death; exhibited 5 historical pictures at Royal Academy 1847–73; assisted in decoration of dome of Great Exhibition 1862; author of Practical geometry 1855; Linear perspective 1856. d. Dublin 27 May 1875. Graphic xi, 606, 621 (1875), portrait.
BURDEN, Henry. b. Dunblane, Scotland 1791; went to America 1819; maker of agricultural implements; invented the first cultivator 1820; invented a machine for making hook-headed spikes 1840, which are used on every railroad in United States; devised a machine for making horseshoes June 1857 which is self-acting, and produces 60 shoes per minute from iron bars. d. Woodside Troy, New York 19 Jany. 1871.