Sir Charles Bunbury, 8th Baronet

British baronet and botanist (1809-1886).

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, the eldest son of Sir Henry Bunbury, 7th Baronet and Louisa Amelia Fox and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. He married Frances Joanna Horner, daughter of Leonard Horner, on 31 May 1844 in London. They had no children. He was a Justice of the Peace and deputy lieutenant for Suffolk and in 1868 was appointed High Sheriff of Suffolk. He was a keen botanist and geologist with a particular interest in palae