Anthony Bull

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Anthony Bull

Background and education

The son of

Bull was the third of four brothers. The eldest, Sir Stephen John Bull, 2nd Baronet (1904–1942), was killed on active service in Java, East Indies. The next, Sir George Bull, 3rd Baronet (1906–1986) inherited the title, which passed to his son, Anthony Bull's nephew, Sir Simeon Bull, 4th Baronet (born 1934).

Career

After Cambridge, he joined London Transport.

At the outbreak of

In 1943, he transferred first to GCHQ Middle East, then to the headquarters in Kandy of Lord Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia.

After leaving the army, Bull returned to his career with London Transport as its chief Staff and Welfare Officer. In 1955, he became a member of the London Transport Executive, joined the London Transport Board in 1962 and was its vice chairman, 1965–1970 and vice chairman of its successor, the Greater London Council run London Transport Executive from 1970 to 1971.^[1] After that, until 1987 he worked as a consultant on underground railway systems around the world, based in London.

He became President of the

• Officer of the Order of the British Empire, 1943
• Bronze Star (U.S. decoration), 1945
• Commander of the Order of the British Empire, 1968
• President of the
  Institute of Transport
  , 1969
• Companion of the
  Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem

Family

On 5 October 1946, Bull married Barbara Donovan, daughter of Peter Donovan, whom he had met in Kandy in 1943 when she was a

Anthony Bull joined London's Oxford and Cambridge Club in 1930 and was a member for 74 years. When he died at the age of 96 in 2004, he was the Father of the Club.

References

• Obituary of Anthony Bull in The Times, 3 February 2005
• Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage ed. Charles Mosley (107th edition, 3 volumes, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 581
• Corps of Royal Engineers