According to the 1925 edition of Burke's Landed Gentry, the earliest mention of the family in current registries is dated 18 January 1559, this being the marriage of Edward Frenche and Jane Bund.
[4] The eighth head of the family was Colonel Thomas Henry Bund (1774-1852), of the Worcester Militia and formerly the 13th Light Dragoons, son of Thomas Bund, High Sheriff of Worcestershire in 1784, by his wife Susanna, daughter of Benjamin Johnson, mayor of Worcester and High Sheriff of Worcestershire in 1763;[9] his issue (by his wife Ann, daughter of Rev.
Henry Harding Milward (1896-1950), of Brook Park, Saltash, Cornwall, perpetual curate of Tideford, Cornwall, who adopted the names of Willis-Bund in 1930; on his death without issue, his first cousin (son of his mother's younger sister, Mary, by her husband John Leader MacCarthy, of Goldington, Bedford, civil engineer) Francis Leader MacCarthy (later Chaplain, Dean and Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford) succeeded him, taking the additional names of Willis-Bund the same year.
Wick Episcopi was subsequently owned by the historian and peace campaigner E. P. Thompson, until his death in 1993; the house "was routinely alive with long- and short-term guests; it was a place for tutorials and seminars, and meetings of all sorts".
[1] Arthur Clutton-Brock, the essayist, critic and journalist, was son of John William Willis-Bund's first cousin, Mary Alice (daughter of Rev.
Their granddaughter, Mary Eliza Maud Boissier (daughter of Maj. John William Boissier, of the 10th Cotswold Rifles [great-uncle of Harrow headmaster and cricketer Paul Boissier, whose daughter, musician and patron Beatrice Mary June, married David Gordon, 4th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair][19] by their daughter Catherine Mary) married in 1888 Rivett Francis Guise (1853-1908), of the Bengal Police, paternal grandson of General Sir John Wright Guise, 3rd Baronet, at the time of his death senior general in the Army List, and maternal grandson of Sir James Rivett-Carnac, 1st Baronet, Governor of the Bombay Presidency from 1838 to 1841.
[22] Details of the marriage settlement of William Bund (sixth head of the family) and his first wife Mary, daughter of John Parsons, of Overbury, Worcs.