Henry Bunny
| Henry Bunny | |
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| Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Wairarapa |
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In office 29 July 1865 – 8 November 1881 |
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| Preceded by | Charles Carter |
| Succeeded by | in abeyance |
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| Born |
7 October 1822 Newbury, Berkshire, England |
| Died | 15 February 1891 (aged 68) Featherston, New Zealand |
| Nationality | New Zealand |
| Political party | Independent |
| Relations |
Charles Broad (in-law) Charles Harrington Broad (grandson) |
| Occupation | solicitor |
Henry Bunny (7 October 1822 – 15 February 1891) was a 19th-century Member of Parliament in the Wairarapa, New Zealand.
Henry Bunny was born in 1822 in Newbury in Berkshire, the second son of Jere Bunny, solicitor, of that town and his wife, Clara, only surviving daughter of Samuel Slocock, banker, also of Newbury. He married Catherine Bunny (née Baker, born 24 June 1818 in Newbury) on 22 October 1844.
Bunny was a partner in his father's firm of Newbury solicitors. He was town clerk of Newbury between 1849 and 1853. He fled to New Zealand in 1853 and was declared a bankrupt after the scandalous collapse of a property development scheme at Donnington Square in Newbury. He was struck off by the Law Society in 1859.
Bunny emigrated to New Zealand together with his wife and children, his sister and her husband, Rev. Arthur Baker, on the Duke of Portland, leaving Plymouth on 19 November 1853. Bunny applied to the New Zealand Bar, was admitted in 1858, but became the first member to be disbarred when it was discovered his sponsor, Rev. Arthur Baker, was his brother-in-law. Baker became involved in a later scandal and was branded 'the horse-whipped vicar'.
Bunny was on the Wellington Provincial Council, representing Wairarapa (1864–1865) and then Wairarapa West (1865–1876). He was on the Executive Council (1871–1873) and was Secretary-Treasurer and the Council's last Deputy-Superintendent in 1876. He was elected to represent the Wairarapa electorate in the New Zealand General Assembly from an 1865 by-election to 1881, when he was defeated for the new electorate of Wairarapa South by Walter Clarke Buchanan.
A resignation in the Thorndon electorate caused an 1884 by-election. At the nomination meeting, Thomas Dwan, Alfred Newman and Henry Bunny were proposed as candidates, with Dwan winning the show of hands. At the election on 14 May 1884, Newman, Bunny and Dwan received 636, 379 and 121 votes, respectively.
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