... the Corporation of Birmingham, with Sketch Earlier Government of the Town. By John Thackray Bunce, ! Vc.. I. Published for the Corporation, Cornish i £ ew Street. Birmingham. ...

... Freemen 1888 1888 1892 1898 1899 Joseph Chamberlain, M.P. Philip Henry Muntz, J.P. Thomas Avery, J.P. George Dixon, M.P. John Thackray Bunce, J.P. Field-Marshall Earl Roberts, of Kandahar, Pretoria and Waterford, V.C., K.G., K.P., G.C.8., 0.M., G.C.5.1., G ...

... problems, however, and some form of organised government became imperative half a century later. Of Birmingham in 1769 John Thackray Bunce wrote : The streets were narrow and irregular; the pavements were wretchedly imperfect; there was no drainage —even ...

... independence of policy. Three of these, who between them occupied the chair for 73 of the Post's hundred years John Thackray Bunce (1862-98), G. W. Hubbard (1906- 33), and E. W. Record (1933-43) earned places of distinction in the records of British ...

... archeologist, and Graham Sutherland, the artist, were among those who gave it support. The school was a dream of Mr. John Thackray Bunce. fifth freeman of the city, chairman of the management sub-committee of the museum and school committee. and editor ...

... of the nation and Empire, and the imaginative and constructive mind of one of the great editors of our time—the late John Thackray Bunce. Never were a great statesman and a great newspaperman more closely co-operative. Having been for 20 years representative ...

... archeologist, and Graham Sutherland, the artist, were among those who gave It support. The school was ■ dream of Mr. John Thackray Bunce. fifth freeman of the city. chairman of the management sub-committee of the museum and school committee, and editor ...

... e portrait was known to have been in existence in 1893, for letter from the then editor of ‘‘The Birmingham Post,” John Thackray Bunce, says that it was in Pile possession of a member of the Caldicott family, whose grandfather was in 1860 editor of “The ...

... first whipping boy was Lord Palmerston. fur it had a Radical outlook. It was not until ler. under Its greatest editor. John T'hackray Bunce. that the Pad. fo:lowed Joseph Chamberlain into the Unionist alter fighting for accommodation. compromise. reconc ...

... most honoured names in Birmingham attached to resolutions ail through the years from 1860 1870, such as John Henry Chamberlain, John Thackray Bunce, William Harris, and Sam Timmins, all of whom after every ballot expressed disappointment with the amount ...

... conferred 14 October, 1892; died IT February, 1894. George Dixon, conferred January, 1898: died 24 January, 18t>8. John Thackray Bunce, conferred 29 March, 1899; died June, 1899. Lord Roberts, conferred 18 July, 1903. Lawley Parker, conferred 26 July ...

... were then found at the junction of what Is now High-street and Unionstreet. One the outstanding men of Birmingham, Mr. John Thackray Bunce, became connected with the Gazette about this period. It was he who first introduced leaderettes, notes and queries ...