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BULKELEY, RICHARD, 5TH VISCOUNT BULKELEY (I), elder son of Richard Bulkeley, 4th Viscount Bulkeley (I), MP, and Lady Bridget Bertie, eldest dau. of James Bertie, 1st Earl of Abingdon; b. 18 Apr 1707; adm. Sep 1718; left 1720; succ. father as 5th Viscount Bulkeley (I) 4 Jun 1724; Grand Tour (Italy) 1726-7; Constable of Beaumaris Castle and Chamberlain of North Wales; MP Beaumaris from 25 Mar 1730; m. 12 Jan 1731/2 Jane, dau. of Lewis Owen, Peniarth, Merioneth; d. 15 Mar 1738/9.

BULL, RICHARD, son of Sir John Bull, Kt., Chipping Ongar, Essex, Turkey merchant and Sheriff, City of London, and Elizabeth, dau. of Richard Turner; b.; adm. (aged 10) Jun 1735; left 1741; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 29 Apr 1743, scholar 1744, matr. Lent 1743/4; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 13 Apr 1742; MP Newport (Cornwall) 26 Jun 1756-80; of North Court, Shorwell, Isle of Wight; a prominent collector of books and engravings; m. 1747 Mary, widow of Bennett Alexander Bennett (qv), and dau. of Benjamin Ash, Ongar, Essex; d. 12 Dec 1805.

BULLER, SIR ANTHONY, brother of John Francis Buller (qv); b. 26 Jul 1780; adm. 29 Feb 1788; KS 1794; played cricket against Eton 25 Jul 1796; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 21 Jul 1797, called to bar 12 May 1803; MP West Looe 1812 - Mar 1816; Puisne Judge, Supreme Court, Madras, 6 Sep 1815, transferred to Bengal 10 Apr 1816; knighted 23 Apr 1816; retd. 1 Jan 1827; again MP West Looe 1831-2; of Pound, Devon; m. 4 Feb 1805 his cousin Isabella Jane, sister of William Lemon (qv); d. 27 Jun 1866.

BULLER, CHARLES, brother of John Francis Buller (qv); b. 3 May 1774; adm. 20 Feb 1788; Writer, EICS Bengal, 24 Jun 1791; arrived in India 4 Aug 1791; Assistant to Persian and Bengali Translator, Board of Revenue, 26 Aug 1791; Registrar to Judge of Patna, 1793; Persian and Bengali Translator, Board of Revenue, 1794; Factor and Sub-Secretary, Board of Revenue, 1797; Junior Merchant and Secretary, Board of Revenue, 1 Apr 1801; Third Member, Board of Revenue, 1 Jan 1807; Senior Merchant, 1807; Commissioner, Cuttack, 1808; in England 1811-6; MP West Looe 1812 - Mar 1816; Supernumary Member, Board of Revenue, Bengal, 15 Nov 1816; Senior Member, Board of Commissioners, Bihar and Benares, 24 Dec 1818; returned home 9 Feb 1821; resigned from EICS 1826; MP West Looe 1826- Feb 1830; m. 26 Aug 1805 Barbara Isabella, dau. of Maj. -Gen. William Kirkpatrick, EICS Bengal; d. 17 May 1848.

BULLER, SIR EDWARD, BART., brother of John Buller (qv); b. 24 Dec 1764; adm. 30 Jun 1774; entered Royal Navy 1777; acting Lieut., 15 Mar 1783; Cdr., 26 Apr 1783; Post Capt., 19 Jul 1790; Col. of Marines 9 Nov 1805-8; Rear-Adm., 28 Apr 1808; Vice-Adm., 12 Aug 1812; distinguished himself in Calder’s action against Villeneuve, 22 Jul 1805, while in command of HMS Malta; MP East Looe 1802-20; created baronet 3 Oct 1808; of Trenant Park, Cornwall; m. 15 Mar 1789 Gertrude, dau. of Col. Philip Van Cortlandt; d. 15 Apr 1824.

BULLER, JAMES, brother of John Francis Buller (qv); b. 9 Nov 1772; adm. 20 Feb 1788; adm. Inner Temple 29 Jan 1790, called to bar 1795; a Commissioner of Bankrupts c. 1797-1807 (occurs in annual lists 1799-1809); MP West Looe 1802 - Jan 1805, 1806 - Jan 1812; a Lord of the Admiralty 6 Apr 1807 - Mar 1812; Clerk Extraordinary, Privy Council 13 Mar 1782 – 1811, Clerk in Ordinary, Privy Council, from 19 Aug 1811; m. 23 Jun 1795 Mary, sister of John Templer (qv); d. 14 Nov 1830.

BULLER, JOHN FRANCIS, eldest son of John Buller MP, Morval, Cornwall, and Anne, d. of William Lemon, Carclew, Cornwall; bapt. 14 Jan 1771; adm. 20 Jan 1784; in school list 1787; adm. Inner Temple 22 Apr 1789; Ensign, 67th Foot 11 Nov 1789; 1st Foot Guards 2 Jan 1790; of Morval, Cornwall, inherited from father 1793; MP West Looe 1796 - Nov 1796, 1826 - Mar 1827; DL JP Cornwall, High Sheriff 1835; m. 1st, 10 Apr 1799 Elizabeth, younger dau. of Hon. and Right Rev. James Yorke DD, Bishop of Ely; m. 2nd, 29 Jun 1814 Harriet, fourth dau. of Sir Edward Hulse, Bart.; d. 3 Apr 1849.

BULLER, JOHN, eldest son of John Buller MP, East Looe, Cornwall, and his first wife Mary, daughter of Sir John St. Aubyn, Bart. , MP; nephew of William Buller (adm. 1743, qv); b. ; adm. ? (Memoirs of William Hickey, iii, 245-6, recording his attendance at OWW dinner at Calcutta 1783, but the fact of his having been at Westminster is not otherwise substantiated and he may have been at Eton); Writer, EICS Bengal, 7 Mar 1777; arrived in India 3 Jul 1778; Assistant to Collector, Chittagong, 1778; Factor, 1782; Senior Merchant, 1788; Collector, Tripura, to 1792; member, Board of Revenue, 1792, Senior Member 1801-2; MP East Looe 1796 - May 1799, but remained in India and did not take his seat in House of Commons; returned to England 1802; MP East Looe 1802-7; m. 1st, 7 Sep 1795 (div. 1799) Catherine Eliza, dau. of Thomas Wiggins; m. 2nd, 11 Dec 1805 Augusta Eliza, dau. of John Nixon, La Bergerie, Queens Co. , Ireland; d. 3 May 1807, in 47th year]

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, SIR THOMAS CHARLES, BART., eldest son of Sir William Bunbury, Bart. (qv); b. May 1740; adm. Apr 1751 (Watts'); in school list 1754; St. Catherine’s Hall, Cambridge, adm. 17 Apr 1756, matr. Mich. 1757; MA 1765; Grand Tour (Italy) 1760-1; MP Suffolk 1761-84, 1790-1812; Secretary to Embassy, Paris, Aug 1763 - May 1765, and Chief Secretary to Lord Lieut. Ireland, Jun-Aug 1765, but did not perform duties of either post; succ. father as 6th baronet, 11 Jun 1764; High Sheriff, Suffolk 1788; a well-known owner of racehorses, including Diomed, winner of the first Derby, 1780, Eleanor, winner of the Oaks and Derby, 1801, and Smolensko, winner of the Two Thousand Guineas and Derby, 1813; m. 1st, 2 Jun 1762 (div. 1776) Lady Sarah Lennox, sister of Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond and Lennox (qv); m. 2nd, 21 Nov 1805 Margaret Cocksedge; d. 31 Mar 1821.