PULLAN, Richard Popplewell (son of Samuel Popplewell Pullan, solicitor). b. Knaresborough, Yorkshire 27 March 1825; educ. Christ’s hospital; went to Sebastopol during the siege Oct. 1854, and made sketches and models of the district; exhibited in London a model of the country and fortifications about Sebastopol; appointed by the foreign office architect to the expedition sent to survey the mausoleum at Halicarnassus, in Asia Minor in April 1857; employed by the Society of Dilettanti on further investigations of a like kind; competed for Truro and Lille cathedrals, the war and foreign offices, and natural history museum; designed churches at Pontresina and Baveno; completed all the unfinished works of Wm. Burges 1881; author of The altar, its baldachin and reredos 1873; Eastern cities and Italian towns 1879; Elementary lectures on Christian architecture 1879; Studies in architectural style 1883; Studies in cathedral design 1888; author with sir C. T. Newton of A history of discoveries of Halicarnassus, Cnidus, and Branchidæ 1862; with C. F. M. Texier of Byzantine architecture 1864; he edited The architectural designs of W. Burges 1883; The house of W. Burges 1886. d. Brighton 30 April 1888. Proc. of Soc. of Antiq., n.s. xii 391 (1888); Athenæum i 575 (1888).
PULLEINE, James (2 son of Henry Percy Pulleine of Crake hall, Bedale, Yorkshire 1770–1833). b. 31 Oct. 1804; educ. Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; barrister M.T. 23 Nov. 1832, went northern circuit; chairman of quarter sessions for north riding of Yorkshire 16 years; a director of North Eastern railway company, chairman; sheriff of Yorkshire 1870; F.G.S. d. Clifton castle, Bedale, Yorkshire 23 March 1879. Law Times lxvi 471 (1879).
PULLEN, Joseph. b. 1807; educ. C.C. coll. Camb., sixth wrangler 1830; B.A. 1830, M.A. 1833, B.D. 1841; fellow of his college 1830–47, tutor 1842–6; V. of St. Benedict’s, Cambridge 1847–71; professor of astronomy in Gresham college, London 1834–75; author of A lecture on astronomy, read at Gresham college 1843. d. 7 St. Peter’s terrace, Cambridge 20 Jany. 1877.
PULLEN, Thomas Francis. b. Plymouth 1851; midshipman R.N. 27 July 1866; commander of the Sparrowhawk in a survey of Jamaica 1875–80; employed on the Red sea and Delagoa bay surveys 1881–2, and on the second transit of Venus; senior British comr. to determine boundary line between British and French possessions near Assinie, West coast of Africa 1883; re-established the protectorate of the king of Aowin on the border of Ashantee 1884; in charge of survey of New Guinea; commander of the Stork in surveying east coast of Africa 1888. d. Bonny, Upper Guinea 3 Nov. 1889. I.L.N. 23 Nov. 1889 p. 651 portrait; Times 7 Dec. 1889 p. 10.
PULLEN, William John Samuel (son of W. Pullen, lieutenant R.N.) b. 1813; entered navy as a cadet 15 June 1828; assistant surveyor under South Australian company 1836; marine surveyor of the colony; returned to the navy as a midshipman 1844; commander 25 Jany. 1850; commanded the North star in the Franklin search expedition Feb. 1852 to Oct. 1854; commanded the Falcon in the Baltic fleet 1855; captain 10 May 1856; captain of the Cyclops on the East Indian station Sept. 1857, bombarded Jeddah 1858; captain of the Terror at Bermuda 1863–5; captain of the Revenge coastguard ship at Pembroke 1867–9; placed on retired list 1 April 1870; R.A. 11 June 1874; V.A. 1 Feb. 1879; granted Greenwich hospital pension 19 Feb. 1886. d. 15 Jany. 1887.
PULLER, Charles Giles- (son of Christopher William Puller, M.P. Herts. 1807–64). b. 22 Park st. Grosvenor sq. London 6 Oct. 1834; educ. at Eton 1847–50, and Trin. coll. Camb., 14 wrangler 1857, B.A. 1857, M.A. 1860; fellow of Trin. coll. 1859–74; R. of Standon, Herts. March 1862, resigned March 1868; renounced his orders in Ch. of England 18 Sept. 1874; travelled in Brazil; member of Royal Toxophilite soc. 1873–8; a first class amateur chess player; succeeded to the family estate on death of his brother; one of the first members of Herts. county council; had a library of 7,000 volumes; F.S.A. d. Youngsbury, near Ware 3 May 1892. F. T. Follett’s Archer’s Register (1892) 44–5.
PULLIN, Charles King. b. 3 Nov. 1838; umpire for the Gloucestershire county cricket club many years; one of the best umpires of his day; umpired in the match England v. Australia at the Oval 14–16 Aug. 1892. d. Redland, Bristol 2 April 1893.
PULLING, Alexander (4 son of George Christopher Pulling, captain in the navy 1765–1819). b. the Court house, St. Arvan’s Monmouthshire 1 Dec. 1813; entered Merchant Taylor’s school April 1829; barrister I.T. 9 June 1843; became a leader on the South Wales circuit; gave evidence before royal commission on state of corporation of London Nov. 1853; senior comr. under Metropolitan management act of 1855; a promoter and original member of Incorporated council of law reporting 1865; revising barrister for Glamorgan 1857; serjeant-at-law 9 Feb. 1864; author of A practical treatise on the laws, customs, and regulations of the city and port of London 1842, 2 ed. 1849; A practical compendium of the law and usage of mercantile accounts 1846; Observations on the disputes in the corporation of the city of London on internal reform 1847; A summary of the law of attorneys and solicitors 1849, 3 ed. 1862; The law of joint stock companies account 1850; The order of the coif 1884. d. 68 Redcliffe gardens, London 15 Jany. 1895. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 19 Jany. Law Times 26 Jany. 1895 p. 313.
PULLING, Frederick Sanders (1 son of Frederick William Pulling, vicar of Pinhoe, Devon). b. Modbury, Devon 1854; educ. Bradfield and Ex. coll. Oxf., Guernsey scholar 12 Dec. 1871; B.A. 1875, M.A. 1878; professor of history Yorkshire coll. Leeds 1877; edited Oxford study guides 1880, three parts; The Constitutional magazine 1887; author of Sir Joshua Reynolds 1880; Life and speeches of the marquis of Salisbury, 2 vols. 1885; and with S. J. M. Low The dictionary of English history 1884, 2 ed. 1889. d. the vicarage, Pinhoe 6 July 1893.
PULLING, James. b. 6 Dec. 1814; educ. Corpus Christi coll. Camb., fellow 1838–50, master 1850–79; 11 wrangler and B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840, B.D. 1848, D.D. 1855; D.C.L. Oxford univ. 7 June 1853; C. of Grantchester, Cambridge 1842–4; V. of Belchamp St. Paul’s, Essex 1863 to death. d. Cambridge 26 Feb. 1879. bur. in the chapel of his college 4 March.