Henry de Bury

Colonel Count Henry Robert Visart de Bury et de Bocarmé, CBE (11 June 1872, in Constance, Germany – 31 July 1958, in Montreal) was a career officer in the British and Canadian army, member of the Belgian nobility, academic, and Director of Canadian Ordnance Services, France.

[citation needed] He was Professor of Mathematics at The Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario, from 1905–10, gazetted a brevet major in 1910, and was Aide-de-camp to the Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba, 1912-16.

[citation needed] On 19 November 1910, he received Royal Licence to use the title of Count in the British Realms.

He rejoined the army in 1940 and served as district ordnance officer for the duration of the Second World War and retired in 1946.

The title of count had been granted to Colonel Louis-François Visart, lord of Bury and Bocarmé, by the Empress Maria-Theresa on 5 September 1753.

Count Robert Visart de Bury, of Bury in Péruwelz, Belgium and Saint John, New Brunswick, a civil engineer, studied at the Episcopal College of Mecheln, in Belgium, at the University of Zurich and at the Polytechnic School of Stuttgart in Württemberg.