Henry Bunny (7 October 1822 – 15 February 1891) was a 19th-century Member of Parliament in the Wairarapa, New Zealand.
[1] He married Catherine Bunny (née Baker, born 24 June 1818 in Newbury)[2] on 22 October 1844.
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.
[1][4][5] He settled on a sheep station in the Wairarapa and built a house named Longwood after Napoleon's residence in exile on Saint Helena.
[6] 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.
[17] Broad had been goldfields warden at Queenstown,[18] was resident magistrate in Arrowtown at the time of their wedding, and later a judge at the District Court in Nelson.
[20] In 1878 his daughter Eleanor Caroline (Nellie) Bunny (1860–1938) married runholder Edward Riddiford.