Arthur William Buller

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Sir
Arthur William Buller
Queen's Advocate of Ceylon
In office
17 October 1840 – 1848
Preceded byJohn Stark
Succeeded byHenry Collingwood Selby
Personal details
Born(1808-09-05)5 September 1808
British India
Died30 May 1869(1869-05-30) (aged 60)
Hanover Square, Westminster, England
Political partyLiberal Party
Spouse
Annie Henrietta Templer
(m. 1842)
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge (MA, 1834)

Sir Arthur William Buller (5 September 1808 – 30 April 1869) was a British Liberal Party Member of Parliament, who in his early career served as head of a commission of inquiry into education reform in Lower Canada.

Funerary monument, Kensal Green Cemetery, London

Background and education

Buller was born in

Calcutta into a prominent Cornish family, the son of Charles Buller (1774–1848), MP for West Looe, and Barbara Isabella Kirkpatrick, daughter of General William Kirkpatrick. His elder brother was MP Charles Buller. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh and Trinity College, Cambridge, taking his MA in 1834, the same year he was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn.[1][2]

Career

From 22 August – 2 November 1838, he served as a member of the

Roman Catholic
religious education, were met with strong opposition.

After he left North America, Buller was

Ceylon from 1840 to 1848.[3] He was afterwards a judge of the Supreme Court of Calcutta
in India from 1848 to 1858.

He was

Devonport from 1859 to 1865, and for Liskeard
from 1865 until his death in 1869.

References

  1. ^ Dod, Charles Roger Phipps (1863). The Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, of Great Britain And Ireland. p. 144. Retrieved 21 June 2018.
  2. ^ Cooper, Thompson (1869). "Sir A. W. Buller". The Register, and Magazine of Biography: 466.
  3. ^ The Colonial Magazine and Commercial-maritime Journal, Volume 3. p. 383.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
James Wilson
Sir Michael Seymour to 1859
William Ferrand
from 1859
Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Liskeard
18651869
Succeeded by
Legal offices
Preceded by
Queen's Advocate of Ceylon

1840–1848
Succeeded by