Giles Bullard
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Sir Giles Bullard
Early life
Giles Lionel Bullard was born in Oxford, England, one of five children of Sir Reader Bullard and his wife, Miriam Catherine (Biddy), née Smith (one of his brothers being the diplomat Sir Julian Bullard).[citation needed]
Bullard was educated at the Dragon School, Oxford, and at Blundell's School in Tiverton in Devon. He won a scholarship to Balliol College in Oxford, which he attended from 1944 to 1945, before three years of national service, including a year with the West African Rifles.[citation needed]
In 1948 Bullard returned to Balliol, where he was president of the
Career
After three years with a shipping firm, mostly in
Bullard spent a year at the Centre for South-East Asia Studies in Cambridge, and from 1977 to 1980 was consul-general in Boston, where he met his second wife, Linda Lewis, née Rannells (d. 1995), whom he married in 1982. His next post was as British Ambassador in Sofia.[citation needed]
Bullard's next posting was as
Bullard was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1980 and Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1985.[1][2]
After his retirement in 1986 Bullard lived at the Manor House, West Hendred, near Wantage, where he engaged in many country pursuits and local interests. Like his father, Bullard was quietly spoken, a rock of integrity, and a man of wide reading and subtle humour. He died at his home on 11 November 1992.[citation needed]
References
- ^ "No. 48325". The London Gazette. 1 October 1980. p. 13693.
- ^ "No. 50333". The London Gazette. 29 November 1985. p. 16780.
External links
- E. C. Hodgkin, 'Bullard, Sir Reader William (1885–1976)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004; online edition, January 2010. Accessed 19 May 2010.
- Details of the estate of Sir Giles Lionel Bullard, The Independent, 5 June 1993. Accessed 20 May 2010.