page_title: Thomas Bunn, Frome
section_title: Demise of the Bunn family
hierarchical_section_title: Thomas Bunn, Frome / Demise of the Bunn family
caption_attribution_description: English: 1853: Thomas Bunn's grave in Christchurch graveyard, Frome
context_page_description: Thomas Bunn, gentleman and philanthropist, was a man of independent means who devoted his energies to improving his native town of Frome. His epitaph in Christ Church aptly sums up his life:
  Note: The text on the plaque was written in block capitals. The quotation in the epitaph is a version in English of Samuel Johnson's epitaph on William Goldsmith: 'Nullum quod tetigit non ornavit'.
context_section_description: He never remarried but lived with his sister and mother at Monmouth House. His younger sister, Arundel lived in her own property in Bristol, "the best economist and the best reader in the family"; she died in 1845 aged 74 after a long series of debilitating illness.  When Bunn died on 15 May 1853 aged 86, it was his wish that Monmouth House be given to the Frome Literary Institution, but his will of 85 pages of multiple bequests was so complicated it was set aside. It was his wife's family, the Kelsons, his nearest surviving relations who eventually inherited his estate. His sister, Jane died in 1862 aged 93 and was buried in Sheppards Barton Baptist Church, near to her father, mother and sister. Bunn was buried in Christ Church burial ground.
  He was so far ahead of his time that some of his ideas are only now fashionable - such as the provision of playgrounds and open spaces, and the widening of roads. .... he remains as the supreme example in the history of Frome of the man who points the way to the future and so contributes to the development of the community which he adorned.
caption: Bunn's plot in Christ Church graveyard
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