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Bullock, Michael, son of Sir Ernest Bullock CVO MusD FRCM FRCO, Director Roy. Coll. of Music, sometime organist of Westminster Abbey, and Margery, daughter of George Hope Newborn, solicitor, of Epworth, Lincs; b. 5 Aug. 1921; adm. Sept. 1934 (H); left July 1939; RAF in WW2; house man. Arts Theatre Cambridge 1963-4; man. Saville Theatre London 1964-70; admin. Coventry Theatre 1971-9; exec. council TMA 1976-80; an actor under the name of Michael Hanbury 1980-; d. Apr. 1999.

BULLOCK, EDMUND, son of Edmund Bullock, Walsingham, Norfolk, barrister; b. ; at school under Osbaldeston two years, afterwards at Perse Sch. , Cambridge (J. Venn, Biog. Hist. Gonville and Caius Coll. , i, 279); Gonville and Caius Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 28 Sep 1626, aged 17, scholar Mich 1626 - Lady Day 1628, matr. Lent 1626/7.

BULLOCK, JOHN, second son of Rev. Richard Bullock DD, Rector of Streatham, Surrey, and Prebendary of Westminster, and Whalley, dau. of Richard Berney, Norfolk; b.; adm. (aged 13) Jan 1747/8 (Hawkins'); KS 1748; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1752, adm. pens. 27 May 1752, scholar 18 May 1753, matr. Easter 1753; BA 1756; MA 1771; ordained deacon (London) 6 Mar 1757; Rector of Radwinter, Essex, from 1758; Rector of Boreham, Essex, from 1770; m. 3 Jul 1759 Elizabeth Lagden, Saffron Walden, Essex; d. 13 Oct 1794.

BULPEN, JOHN, son of John Bulpen, London; b.; adm.; QS 1707; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1711, adm. pens. 31 May 1711, aged 18, scholar 15 May 1712; BA 1714/5; MA 1718.

BULTEEL, JAMES COURTENAY, son of James Bulteel, Fleet, Devon, and Mary, only dau. of Courtenay Crocker, Lyneham, Devon; b.; adm. (aged 12) Oct 1733; left 1738; Balliol Coll. Oxford, matr. 15 Dec 1738; m. 16 Jul 1744 Margery Edgecombe; d. 9 Oct 1746.

BUNBURY, ---; b.; in under school list 1715.

BUNBURY, CHARLES JOHN, elder son of Henry William Bunbury (qv); b. 2 Nov 1772; adm. 21 Jan 1782; expelled for taking part in the rebellion “up School” against Samuel Smith (qv), Head Master, autumn 1786; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 23 Jun 1790, matr. 1793; BA 1795; Ensign, Independent Co. of Foot, 20 Sep 1794; Lieut., 25th Light Dragoons, 3 Sep 1794 [check]; Capt., 21 Feb 1795; 52nd Foot, 17 Nov 1797; the “Master Bunbury” painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds in 1780; m. 6 Mar 1797 Frances Davison, afterwards Mrs Sydenham; d. at Cape of Good Hope 2 May 1798.

BUNBURY, SIR HENRY EDWARD, BART., son of Henry William Bunbury (qv); b. 4 May 1778; in school list Christmas 1788 (see also Memoirs and Remains of Sir H. E. Bunbury, Bart., 1868); spoke the prologue to Townley’s High Life below Stairs, acted by the Town Boys, Dec. 1789 (Annual Register, 1790, Appendix, 134-5); Page of Honour to Queen Charlotte c. 1787 – Jan 1795; Ensign, 2nd Foot Guards, 14 Jan 1795; Capt., 16th Light Dragoons 16 Aug 1797; Maj., 9th West India Regt., 11 Mar 1802; Lieut. -Col. in the Army, and Assist. QMG 31 Dec 1803; Lieut. -Col., Newfoundland Fencibles, 28 Mar 1805; Brevet Col., 1 Jan 1812; Maj. -Gen., 4 Jun 1814; Lieut. -Gen., 22 Jul 1830; served on Duke of York’s staff on expedition to Netherlands, 1799; QMG to Sir James Craig’s Expeditionary Force in Southern Italy and Sicily, 1805; Chief of Staff to Sir John Stuart (qv) at battle of Maida, 1806; Under-Secretary of State, War and the Colonies, 2 Nov 1809 - 5 Jul 1816; KCB 2 Jan 1815; succ. his uncle as 7th baronet, 31 Mar 1821; High Sheriff, Suffolk, 1825-6; MP Suffolk 1830-2; Vice-Lieut., Suffolk; a pioneer of the volunteer movement; FSA (by 1831); member, Society of Dilettanti, 1830; author, Correspondence of Sir Thomas Hanmer, Bart., 1838, and other works; m. 1st, 4 Apr 1807 Louisa Emilia, dau. of Gen. Hon. Henry Edward Fox; m. 2nd, 22 Sep 1830 Emily Louisa, dau. of Col. Hon. George Napier; d. 13 Apr 1860. DNB.

BUNBURY, HENRY WILLIAM, younger son of Sir William Bunbury, Bart. (qv); b. Jul 1750; in sch. lists 1764, 1765; St. Catherine’s Hall, Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 30 Jan 1768, readm. 1 Feb 1771; travelled in France 1767 and Italy 1769-70, studying drawing at Rome; [presumably Commissioner of Army Accounts 17 May 1775 – 31 Jul 1783]; an amateur artist and caricaturist, with a good deal of grotesque drollery; his drawings are chiefly in pencil or chalk; an etching of “A Boy riding upon a Pig”, executed by Bunbury when at school, is preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings, British Museum; m. 1771 Katherine, sister of Charles Horneck (qv); d. 7 May 1811. DNB.