Author: Busk, Hans
Biography:
BUSK, Hans (1772-1862: ODNB)
The youngest son of Sir Wadsworth Busk (1730-1811) and his first wife Alice Parish (d 1776), he was born on 28 May 1772. His father was a bencher of the Middle Temple and the Attorney General of the Isle of Man. Hans Busk may have spent time in Russia in his youth; ODNB states that he served as a chevalier to Catherine the Great. Although no evidence for this has been located, a brother, Robert, was a merchant in St. Petersburg. Busk owned an estate at Glenalder, Radnorshire, Wales, where he served as justice of the peace and, in 1837-38, as high sheriff of Radnor. On 28 Apr. 1814 he married Maria Green (1788-1840); they had seven children of whom six survived to adulthood. Three of their children have entries in the ODNB: Hans, Rachel, and Julia. Busk corresponded with other poets, including Wordsworth and Scott (qq.v.). He kept a home in London at 22 Great Cumberland Place where he died on 8 Feb. 1862. (ODNB 15 Aug. 2023; ancestry.co.uk 15 Aug. 2023; B. Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland [1894] 1, 267; Illustrated London News 22 Feb. 1862) SR