page_title: Henry de Bury
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: Henry de Bury / Family
context_page_description: Colonel Count Henry Robert Visart de Bury et de Bocarmé, CBE was a career officer in the British and Canadian army, member of the Belgian nobility, academic, and Director of Canadian Ordnance Services, France.
context_section_description: The title of count had been granted to Colonel Louis-François Visart, lord of Bury and Bocarmé, by the Empress Maria-Theresa on 5 September 1753.
  
  The title was later confirmed (1822) and has remained in the family ever since. 
   The Bury estates are in the municipality of Péruwelz, province of Hainaut, Wallonia, Belgium.
  Henry was the eldest son and heir of Count Robert Visart de Bury de Bocarmé (1845-1907), a Belgian nobleman, representative descendant of a distinguished family, who emigrated to Canada. His grandfather however, was the convicted and executed murderer Hippolyte Visart de Bocarmé (1818-1851).
  Count Robert Visart de Bury, of Bury in Péruwelz, Belgium and Saint John, New Brunswick, a civil engineer, studied at the Episcopal College of Mecheln, in Belgium, at the University of Zurich and at the Polytechnic School of Stuttgart in Württemberg. He was employed as a civil engineer by the Orléans Railway Company and by the Government of Württemberg in the survey of the Black Forest Railway. He married Miss Simonds of Saint John, New Brunswick. The couple came to New Brunswick in 1873, and lived in Portland, New Brunswick and Bury, Belgium. He served as Belgian Consul for the Province of New Brunswick and Consular Agent for France at St. John. He served as a member of the Town Council of Portland.
caption: Bury, Péruwelz, Belgium