BUIST, George (eld. son of Rev. John Buist, minister of Tannadice, Forfarshire who d. 8 Dec. 1845 in 92 year). b. Tannadice 17 Nov. 1805; ed. at St. Andrew’s univ. 1817–24, and at Univ. of Edin.; edited Dundee Courier 1834; established Dundee Guardian 1834; edited Perth Constitutional 1835, and Fifeshire Journal 1837–9, and Bombay Times at Bombay 1840–58; started Bombay Standard 1858; F.R.S. 29 Jany. 1846; founded Bombay Reformatory School of Industry 1850; superintendent of government printing press Allahabad 1859 to death; author of Index to books and papers on the physical geography antiquities and statistics of India 1852. d. Calcutta 1 Oct. 1860. Memoir of G. Buist, Cupar 1846; W. Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities (1873) 190–2.
BULL, Rev. John (eld. son of John Bull of Oxford, surgeon). b. Oxford; ed. at Ruthin gr. sch. and Westminster; student at Ch. Ch. Ox. 1808, Rhetoric reader, censor, and librarian of his house; B.A. 1812, M.A. 1814, B.D. 1821, D.D. 1825; public examiner 1817–8, Proctor 1820; preb. of Fenton in York cathedral 1 June 1826 to death; V. of Staverton, Northamptonshire 1830 to death; canon of Exeter 26 March 1823 to death; archdeacon of Cornwall 6 Feb. 1826 to 6 May 1826, of Barnstaple 6 May 1826 to 10 March 1830; canon of Ch. Ch. Ox. 15 March 1830 to death; endowed vicarage of St. Mary Magdalen, Oxford with £2,000. d. at his lodgings in Ch. Ch. Oxford 21 Feb. 1858 aged 68.
BULLAR, Henry (son of John Bullar, of Basset Wood near Southampton). b. 25 Feb. 1815; a special pleader 1839–53; barrister L.I. 6 June 1853; recorder of Poole Oct. 1864 to death; a judge of Court of record of Poole Oct. 1864 to death; published with Joseph Bullar A winter in the Azores 2 vols. 1841; Prætors or pleaders. d. Basset Wood 5 Jany. 1870.
BULLEN, Sir Charles (son of John Bullen, surgeon general R.N.) b. Newcastle 10 Sep. 1769; entered navy 16 Feb. 1779; captain 29 April 1802; commodore on coast of Africa 12 Dec. 1823 to 1827; superintendent of Pembroke dockyard and captain of Royal Sovereign yacht 22 July 1830 to 10 Jany. 1837; admiral 30 July 1852; C.B. June 1815, K.C.B. 18 April 1839, G.C.B. 6 April 1852, K.C.H. 13 Jany. 1835; knighted at St. James’s palace 25 Feb. 1835; granted 12 July 1843 good service pension of £300. d. Shirley near Southampton 2 July 1853. Portrait of him in painted hall at Greenwich.
BULLEN, Edward (son of Robert Bullen of Taunton, solicitor). b. Taunton 3 April 1813; ed. at Benedictine college, Douay; law student at Lincoln’s Inn; practised in London as a certificated special pleader 1836 to death; author of A practical treatise on the law of distress for rent and of things damage feasant 1842; author with S. M. Leake of Precedents of pleadings in common law 1860, 3 ed. 1868. d. 82 Belsize park gardens, London 19 July 1868.
BULLEN, Joseph (2 son of Rev. John Bullen, R. of Kennet, Cambs.) b. 14 April 1761; midshipman on board “Pallas” 36 guns 1774; commanded Lynn Regis district of Sea Fencibles 26 Sep. 1804 to 1810 when corps was disbanded; admiral on h.p. 23 Nov. 1841. d. Bath 17 July 1857.
BULLER, Sir Anthony (youngest son of John Buller of Morval, Cornwall 1744–90). b. Antony house, Torpoint 26 July 1780; ed. at Westminster; barrister L.I. 12 May 1803; M.P. for West Looe 1812–16 and 1831–32; appointed a puisne justice at Madras 6 Sep. 1815, but was transferred to Calcutta March 1816 and it is believed never took his seat on the Madras bench; knighted by Prince Regent at Carlton house 23 April 1816. d. Marytavy rectory, Devon 27 June 1866.
BULLER, Sir Arthur William (2 son of Charles Buller of Bengal civil service 1774–1848). b. Calcutta 5 Sep. 1808; ed. at Edin. and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1830, M.A. 1834; pupil of Thomas Carlyle; barrister L.I. 10 June 1834; Queen’s advocate in Ceylon 19 Oct. 1840 to July 1848; judge of supreme court at Calcutta July 1848 to 1858 when he retired; M.P. for Devonport 17 Aug. 1859 to June 1865, and for Liskeard 21 June 1865 to death. d. 6 Half Moon st. Piccadilly, London 30 April 1869.
BULLER, Frederick William. Ensign 37 foot 20 Jany. 1790; lieut. col. 88 foot 28 Aug. 1804 and 1 foot 27 Feb. 1806 to 1 Dec. 1808; captain Coldstream guards 1 Dec. 1808 to 1814; aide de camp to George iii, 25 July 1810 to 4 June 1813; L.G. 27 May 1825; retired 1833. d. Bury st. St. James’s, London 8 Nov. 1855 aged 83.
BULLER, Sir George (3 son of Frederick Wm. Buller of Pelynt, Cornwall who d. 8 Nov. 1855). b. 30 May 1800; ensign 23 foot 2 March 1820; lieut. col. Rifle brigade 27 Aug. 1841 to 12 Dec. 1854, col. commandant 13 Oct. 1860 to death; commanded 2 brigade of light division in Crimea 21 Feb. 1854 to 11 Dec. 1854; commanded a brigade and then a division in first Kaffir war 1847; commanded a division in second Kaffir war 30 Aug. 1852 to 31 Oct. 1853; commanded division in Ionian Isles 1856–62 and troops at Portsmouth 1865–70; C.B. 26 Dec. 1848; K.C.B. 5 July 1855; G.C.B. 2 June 1869. d. 23 Bruton st. Berkeley sq. London 12 April 1884.