Born in Uldale, Cumberland, the son of Joseph Cape
Admitted pensioner to Clare College in 1814
Matriculated in 1815
B.A. 1819 (4th Wrangler)
M.A. 1822
Made a Fellow in 1820
1946-1866 - Rector of Birdbrook, Essex
Died 1866 in Birdbrook
Educated at Eton, the Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz and New College, Oxford, also spending some time at Princeton University.
Joined the diplomatic service in 1927 and served in several countries in a junior role, including Iran, Hungary, Japan and Turkey.
He was posted to Tokyo in November 1941, just before the attack on Pearl Harbour. Ten days after his arrival, when the Ambassador was at the American Embassy, he "was pressed to accept an ideographic Declaration of War".
Whilst serving in Turkey he employed a nursemaid to look after his children. She was a mistress of the Nazi spy Elyesa Bazna and Busk went on to employ Bazna as a valet. He introduced Bazna to Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, the ambassador, who went on to employ Bazna as chauffeur and valet from November 1943 to March 1944.
1946-1948 - Served in Iraq.
1952-1956 – He was Britain's Ambassador to Ethiopia (1952-56); Finland (1958-60); and Venezuela (1962-64)
He was a notable mountaineer climbing in all the countries where he was posted.
The Royal Geographical Society, of which he was honorary vice-president, awards an annual Busk Medal named in his honour.