Hans Busk
1815–82
Lawyer. Founder of volunteer movement and writer on military topics. In 1858 restored vitality to the Victoria Rifles, which became a senior battalion of Britain’s mid-nineteenth-century volunteer movement. Published treatises and gave lectures on volunteer corps, the rifle, and naval construction. High sheriff of Radnorshire, 1847.
Sources
Burke’s landed gentry
DNB.
Bibliography
Burke’s landed gentry: A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank but unvisited with heritable honours. Burke’s genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry. By John Burke et al. 1st–18th edition. London: Henry Colburn [and others]. 1833–1969.
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.
