Charles William Bull (25 October 1846 – 15 May 1906) was an Australian politician and lawyer. He was born at

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to wheelwright William James Bull (1819-1900) and Catherine Ann Rowley (824-1901). A solicitor from 1873, he married Mary Susannah Morris (1848-1880) on 2 December 1871 at St Peters Church of England, Campbelltown; they had four sons with one dying in infancy. His second marriage, also at St Peters Church of England, Campbelltown and held on 9 July 1881, was to Frances (Fanny) Australia Chippendall (1856-1921), with whom he had eleven children, two of whom died in infancy. He was admitted to the Bar in 1886 and practised law with his brother, Sidney John (1854-1938) the following year under the style Bull & Bull. He was appointed Queen's Counsel about 1890 with chambers at Barrister's Court, Elizabeth St, Sydney. In 1895 he was elected to the

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as the

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member for Camden, but he was defeated after a single term in 1898. Bull died at his late residence in

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in 1906 of a carbuncle on the neck.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bull, Charles 1846 births 1906 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Free Trade Party politicians Mayors of Hurstville 19th-century Australian politicians