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Buller Nature Reserve
Buller is an English surname. It may refer to: People * Anthony Buller (1613–1679), English soldier and Member of Parliament * Sir Anthony Buller (1780–1866), English lawyer and Member of Parliament * Arthur Henry Reginald Buller (1874–1944), British/Canadian mycologist * Charles Buller (1806–1848), English politician * David Buller (born 1959), American philosopher of science * Sir Edward Buller, 1st Baronet (1764–1824) * Ed Buller, British musician * Eric Buller (1894–1973), cricketer and British army officer * Francesca Buller (b. 1964), British actress * Francis Buller (Parliamentarian) English politician * Francis Buller (c 1630–1682), English politician * Sir Francis Buller, 1st Baronet (1746–1800) * Fred Buller (1914–1994), Canadian aeronautical engineer, sailboat designer * George Buller (MP) (1607–c. 1646), English politician * Sir George Buller (1802–1884), British Army General * Georgiana Buller (1884–1953), British hospital administrator * Hy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Buller (1613–1679)
Anthony Buller (1613–1679) was an English soldier and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1659 and 1660. He fought in the Parliamentary army in the English Civil War. Buller was the son of Sir Richard Buller, of Shillingham, Cornwall and his wife Alice Hayward, daughter of Sir Rowland Hayward. He was baptised on 14 November 1613. The Buller family was originally from Somerset and acquired Shillingham in around 1555. In the Civil War, he was a captain on the horse in the Parliamentary army becoming major in 1646. His own reputation for valour was high, but his troopers were given to disorderly and licentious behaviour. He was governor of the Scilly Isles after they were surrendered by Francis Godolphin in 1647 until 1648 when he was captured in the Royalist revolt. He was held prisoner but treated with special kindness as a "gallant soldier". He served in the Western Design, an expedition to the West Indies during the Anglo-Spanish War (1654–1660). He was a col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Buller (the Younger) (1789–1878), British MP for Winchester
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James Buller may refer to: * James Buller (the elder) (1678–1710), British MP for Saltash, Cornwall 1701–1705 and 1708–1710 * James Buller (1717–1765) (1717–1765), British MP for East Looe 1741–1748 and Cornwall 1748–1765 * James Buller (1766–1827), British MP for Exeter and East Looe 1802 * James Buller (1772–1830), British MP for West Looe *James Wentworth Buller (1798–1865), British Member of Parliament for Exeter, and for North Devon See also *Sir James Buller East, 2nd Baronet Sir James Buller East, 2nd Baronet (1 February 1789 – 19 November 1878) was a British barrister. East, eldest son of Sir Edward East, 1st Baronet, Sir Edward Hyde East, was born in Bloomsbury, London, on 1 February 1789. He was educated at Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Buller (bridge)
Lt. Col. Walter Buller (10 December 1886 – 21 May 1938) was a British auction and contract bridge organiser, player and writer, the leading British bridge personality at the start of the 1930s. Buller was from London. Life Buller joined the Army Service Corps as a commissioned officer in 1907 and served throughout World War I, first as a Sixth Division captain in France and then as a staff officer in the War Office, where he became lieutenant colonel in 1917. He retired on pay in 1923 and thereafter lived in London. Bridge career Buller was one of those responsible for contract bridge being adopted at the Portland Club, after the game and its new scoring system was brought to England by Lord Lascelles and Jimmie Rothschild in 1927. The Portland Club, which regulated the laws of whist since early in the nineteenth century, remains the law-giving body for bridge in Britain, and has taken part in every subsequent revision of the laws of bridge. In Buller's bridge caree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Buller
Sir Walter Lawry Buller (9 October 1838 – 19 July 1906) was a New Zealand lawyer and naturalist who was a dominant figure in New Zealand ornithology. His book, ''A History of the Birds of New Zealand'', first published in 1873, was published as an enlarged version in 1888 and became a New Zealand classic. Biography Buller was born at Newark, the Wesleyan mission at Pakanae in the Hokianga, the son of Rev. James Buller, a Cornish missionary who had helped convert the people of Tonga to Methodism. He was educated at Wesley College in Auckland. In 1854, he moved to Wellington with his parents, where he was befriended by the naturalist William John Swainson. In 1859 he was made Native Commissioner for the Southern Provinces. In 1871 he travelled to England and was called to the bar at the Inner Temple. Three years later he returned to Wellington and practised law. In 1862, he married Charlotte Mair at Whangārei. They were to have four children. Buller was the author of '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syd Buller
John Sydney Buller (23 August 1909 – 7 August 1970) was an English first-class cricketer and international umpire. He was a wicket-keeper. Playing career Buller was born in Wortley near Leeds in Yorkshire. As a player, he was a competent wicket-keeper and lower-order right-hand bat. He played for Worcestershire between 1935 and 1946, having played once for Yorkshire in 1930. In 1939, he was severely injured in the car crash that killed Worcestershire opening batsman Charlie Bull, on the Sunday evening of the Whitsun match with Essex, and missed the next two months of cricket. Umpire He made his debut as a first-class umpire in 1951. He umpired in 33 Tests between 1956 and 1969. He was awarded the MBE in 1965. In August 1970, Buller collapsed and died at Edgbaston, Birmingham, during a break for rain, when officiating in a match between Warwickshire and Nottinghamshire. A fearless umpire, he repeatedly called Geoff Griffin for throwing in the exhibition match staged follow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Buller
Sir Richard Buller (1578–1642) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1621 and 1642. He was a Parliamentarian officer during the English Civil War. Buller was born at Shillingham Cornwall, the son of Francis Buller and his wife Thomasina Williams, daughter of Thomas Williams of Stowford, an Elizabethan-era Speaker of the House of Commons. He was knighted in 1608. Buller was elected Member of Parliament for St Germans in 1621. He was subsequently MP for Saltash from 1625 to 1629 when King Charles I decided to rule without parliament. He was High Sheriff of Cornwall in 1637. In April 1640, Buller was elected MP for Cornwall in the Short Parliament. In November 1640, he was elected MP for Fowey in the Long Parliament. Buller was involved in military operations in Cornwall in 1642, and was forced to retreat from Launceston. He died in November that year at the age of 64. Marriage and issue Buller married Alice Hayward, the daughter of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Redvers Buller
General Sir Redvers Henry Buller, (7 December 1839 – 2 June 1908) was a British Army officer and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He served as Commander-in-Chief of British Forces in South Africa during the early months of the Second Boer War and subsequently commanded the army in Natal until his return to England in November 1900. Origins Buller was the second son and eventual heir of James Wentworth Buller (1798–1865), MP for Exeter, by his wife Charlotte Juliana Jane Howard-Molyneux-Howard (d.1855), third daughter of Lord Henry Thomas Howard-Molyneux-Howard, Deputy Earl Marshal and younger brother of Bernard Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk. Redvers Buller was born on 7 December 1839 at the family estate of Downes, near Crediton in Devon, inherited by his great-grandfather James Buller (1740–1772) from his mother Elizabeth Gould, the wife of James Buller ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion Buller
Marion R. Buller , also known professionally as Marion Buller Bennett, is a First Nations jurist in British Columbia and current chancellor of the University of Victoria. Buller served as the Chief Commissioner for the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. A member of the Mistawasis First Nation, she was the first First Nations woman to be appointed to the Provincial Court of British Columbia in 1994, and presided in courts throughout B.C. She established the First Nations Courts of British Columbia in 2006 and provided the foundation for the Aboriginal Family Healing Court in 2016. Buller served as President of the Indigenous Bar Association and served as Director of the B.C. Law Court Society, B.C. Law Foundation, B.C. Police Commission and the B.C. Mediators Roster. Buller has lectured and written numerous articles and papers about Aboriginal law, criminal law, family law and human rights. She lives in Vancouver. Career Marion Buller attended t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Buller
Jon Buller (born December 27, 1970) is a Contemporary Christian artist from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He now resides in Vernon, British Columbia, where he works as Pastor of Worship and the Arts at Vernon Alliance Church, a position he began in August 2005. Buller founded Hear the Music Ministries (HTM) in 1999; HTM is "committed to discipling and developing emerging Christian musicians, expressing worship through music." Jon has released nine albums, an EP, and a concert video. In 2000, Jon Buller was nominated for a Juno Award for Best Gospel Album for his work, '' Sinner And The Saint''. He received a 2006 Covenant Award for Praise & Worship Song of the Year, ''Lord of Every Thing''. Discography Albums * ''Mystified '' (1993) * ''That's What I'd Like'' (1996) * ''Sinner and the Saint'' (1999, review) * ''And Your Praise Goes On, Vol. 1'' (1999) * ''And Your Praise Goes On, Vol. 2'' (2001) * ''And Your Praise Goes On, Vol. 3'' (2002, review) * ''Broken Drum'' (2003, rev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Buller (composer)
John Buller (7 February 1927 – 12 September 2004) was a British composer. Career John Buller was born in London on 7 February 1927. His musical career began as a chorister at St Matthew's, Westminster. Although the BBC accepted a work of his in 1946, he opted to earn his living as an architectural surveyor. Buller returned to music in his thirties, taking an external London University BMus in 1964 after private study with Anthony Milner. He gave up his surveying work in 1974 and from then was a full-time composer. Perhaps his best known work is ''Proença'' (1977) for electric guitar, mezzo-soprano and orchestra, which was selected by the 1978 International Rostrum of Composers in Paris. Other works include ''The Mime of Mick, Nick and the Maggies'' (1978), ''The Theatre of Memory'' (1981), the opera ''Bakxai'' (1992), ''Bacchae Metres'' (1993) and ''Illusions'' (1997). In his obituary for John Buller in the Guardian, Martin Wainwright wrote, '...John's discovery of Joyc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Buller (1745–1793)
John Buller (1745–1793), was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1768 and 1784 and was an active agent in various Cornish constituencies.. Buller was the son of James Buller and his second wife Lady Jane Bathurst daughter of Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst and was baptized on 28 February 1745. He matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford on 18 January 1764. In the 1768 general election Buller was returned unopposed as Member of Parliament for Exeter on the corporation interest. He married Anne Lemon, daughter of William Lemon of Carclew and sister of Sir William Lemon, 1st Baronet on 3 April 1770. Some time before 1774, probably on the death of his half-brother James in 1772, Buller took over the management at West Looe constituency, where he was able to arrange the return of two Members. He also began interfering in other constituencies, not necessarily for his own return but to affect the outcome of the poll. In the 1774 general election he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Buller (1721–1786)
John Buller (1721–1786) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons for 39 years from 1747 to 1786. Buller was the son of John Francis Buller, M.P. and his wife Rebecca Trelawny, daughter of Sir Jonathan Trelawny, 3rd Baronet bishop of Winchester and was born on 24 Jan. 1721. He matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford on 25 October 1738. He entered Middle Temple in 1740 and Inner Temple in 1743 and was called to the bar in February 1747. In 1746 he was mayor of East Looe and in the 1747 general election he was returned as Member of Parliament for East Looe. In 1754 Buller was re-elected MP for East Looe and in the same year was appointed Comptroller of the Mint. He was also mayor of East Looe again and appointed Recorder of East Looe in 1754. From 1759 to 1761 he was secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. He married Mary St Aubyn, daughter of Sir John St Aubyn, 3rd Baronet on 3 March 1760. Buller was re-elected MP for East Looe in 1761. He was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
