The son of Charles William Bury, second Earl of Charleville; he was a captain in the Royal Engineers.

REFERENCES TO Hon. John James Bury:

Countess of Charleville to Lady Morgan, 30 December [1827] in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863)