William Thomas Bullock (1818–1879) was an English Anglican cleric and mission administrator.

Life

He was the second son of John Bullock by Mary Soper, born in London. He entered

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as a

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, and took his B.A. degree in 1847, obtaining a fourth class in Literae Humaniores. The same year he was ordained deacon, and licensed to the curacy of

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. Here he worked until June 1850, when he was appointed assistant secretary to the

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(SPG). On the death of Ernest Hawkins in 1865, Bullock succeeded him as chief secretary of the SPG, a post he held for the rest of his life. In 1867 he was appointed chaplain to the royal household in

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, where he occupied the chaplain's apartments. In 1875 Bullock was presented to a prebendal stall of St. Paul's Cathedral. Bullock worked to expand the operations of the SPG. He saw 42 new sees added to the colonial episcopate, while church operations were extended beyond the

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, by the appointment of missionary bishops in the Niger territory, Honolulu,

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, Madagascar, Central Africa, and Melanesia. Missions were opened in new countries: independent

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, China, and Japan. At the same time the income of the society increased. It was at Bullock's instigation that the society undertook the publication of ''The Missionary Record'', ''The Gospel Missionary'', and ''The Mission Field'', which were run under his supervision. In 1878 Bullock took part in the arrangements for the Pan-Anglican synod, but at the end of the year his health forced him take leave. He died at

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e of paralysis on 27 February 1879. He had married in 1862 Alice Oke Alford, elder daughter of

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, by whom he left two daughters.

Works

Bullock was the author of about 70 articles in ''

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'', and wrote on the '' Book of Ecclesiastes'' in the ''

Speaker's Commentary Frederic Charles Cook (1 December 1804– 22 June 1889) was an English churchman, known as a linguist and the editor of the ''Speaker's Commentary'' on the Bible. Life Born at Millbrook, Hampshire, and later moved to Berkshire, he was admitted a ...

''. In 1878 he published a sermon ''Builders of the Temple'' preached at the consecration of the

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. After his death a volume of sermons, edited by his widow, was published, most of them preached at Kensington Palace Chapel.

Notes

;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Bullock, William Thomas 1818 births 1879 deaths 19th-century English Anglican priests