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De Bunsen, Victoria Alexandrina Buxton, 1874-1953
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Dates of existence
1874-1953
History
Victoria Alexandrina de Bunsen, née Buxton, was born on January 5, 1874, in Norwich, Norfolk, England, sister of politicians and philanthropists Noel Edward Noel-Buxton, 1st Baron Noel Buxton (1869-1948) and Charles Roden Buxton (1875–1942).
She was a writer and poet. She graduated from Newnham College, Cambridge, and travelled through Asia Minor in 1902. She visited the Balkans in 1907 and published an essay on the developing regional conflict. She was an active supporter of the Fight the Famine Council and Save the Children Fund. She published "The Soul of a Turk" (1910), "The War and Men's Minds" (1919), "Old and New in the Countryside" (1920), and "Charles Roden Buxton: a Memoir" (1948).
In 1904, she married Lothar Henry George de Bunsen (1858-1950). She died on May 30, 1953, in London, England.