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Sir Henry Bunbury, 3rd Baronet

1676 – 1733

English politician

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Lived 1676 – 1733 (aged 56). Sir Henry Bunbury, 3rd Baronet was a politician.

Sir Henry Bunbury, 3rd Baronet (29 November 1676 – 12 February 1733) of Stanney Hall, Cheshire was a British Tory politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons for 27 years from 1700 to 1727. At the time of the Hanoverian Succession in 1714 he was a Hanoverian Tory, but later offered support to the Jacobites.

Early life and family Bunbury was the son of Sir Henry Bunbury, 2nd Baronet and his wife Mary Eyton, daughter of Sir Kenrick Eyton. In 1687, aged only eleven, he succeeded his father as baronet. Bunbury was educated at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. On 15 May 1699, he married Susannah Hanmer, only surviving daughter of William Hanmer (the second son of Sir Thomas Hanmer, 2nd Baronet), and had by her four sons and five daughters. and re-elected in a contest at Chester in the 1715 general election. In spite of the change of government, he initially held his Irish post, but after he was found with seditious pamphlets and engaged in Jacobite correspondence in May 1715 he was removed from the post in September. He was re-elected at the 1722 general election but was defeated in 1727.

Death and legacy Bunbury died in 1733 and was buried in Stoke, Chester four days later. He was succeeded in the baronetcy successively by his sons Charles and William.

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St Catharine's College
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Member of Parliament in the Parliament of England, Member of the 1st Parliament of Great Britain, Member of the 2nd Parliament of Great Britain, Member of the 3rd Parliament of Great Britain
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Sir Henry Bunbury, 3rd Bt.

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Sir Henry Bunbury, 3rd Baronet was born on 29 November 1676.

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Sir Henry Bunbury, 3rd Baronet died on 12 February 1733.

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Sir Henry Bunbury, 3rd Baronet was a politician.

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· Wikipedia: Sir Henry Bunbury, 3rd Baronet

· Wikidata: Q7527110

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