Came of a very old West Country family, long associated with Colyton, South Devon. He was educated at St Thomas's Hospital and in Dublin. He practised first at High Beech, Essex, and then from about the year 1847 at Whetstone, Middlesex, where he was in partnership with H S Hammond, as a member of the firm of Messrs Hammond and Ward, of Edmonton and Southgate, and from 1871 with his son, George William Fleetwood Bury (qv). His death was reported in *The Times* on December 11th, 1886.