William Bull II (September 24, 1710 – July 4, 1791) was a landowner who was for many years (1759–1775) the lieutenant governor of the
province of South Carolina
Province of South Carolina, originally known as Clarendon Province, was a province of Great Britain that existed in North America from 1712 to 1776. It was one of the five Southern colonies and one of the thirteen American colonies. The monar ...
and served as acting governor on five occasions. A
Loyalist, he left the colony in 1782 when British troops were evacuated at the end of the
American Revolutionary War
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, and he died in
London
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.
William (Guilielmus) Bull matriculated at the
University of Leiden
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in the
Netherlands
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10 October 1732. He received his Medical Doctor degree from the University of Leiden on 13 April 1734. The title description of his thesis is: Dissertatio medica inauguralis de colica pictonum. Quam … pro gradu Doctoratus, summisque in Medicina honoribus & privilegiis rite ac legitime consequendis, eruditorum examini submittit Guilielmus Bull … ad diem 18. Augusti 1734. hora locoque solitis. - Lugduni Batavorum : apud Gerardum Potvliet, 1734. - 19,
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On title-page he is described as "Anglus ex Carolina." Dedicated to his father, William Bull, King's Counsel of South Carolina. In the thesis, he makes reference to "Townium Anglium qui ad colicam refert." Born in South Carolina, 1710, he is said to have been the first from the American Continent to graduate at Leyden. But Roland Cotton (born Hampton, N.H., August 29, 1674) received his Ph.D. at the
University of Harderwijk
The University of Harderwijk (1648–1811), also named the ''Guelders Academy'' ( la, Academia Gelro-Zutphanica), was located in the city Harderwijk, in the Republic of the United Provinces (now: the Netherlands). It was founded by the province ...
in the
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on October 8, 1697.
[Het Album promotorum van de Academie te Harderwijk, p. 88.]
References
''The South Carolina Historical Society Magazine''
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1710 births
1791 deaths
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