John Bulteel (died 1669)

John Bulteel (died 1669) of

He was the second son of Peter Bulteel, an English-born merchant of the City of London, a deacon of the French church in Threadneedle Street, and son of a Huguenot Protestant refugee from Tournai, in Hainault^[2][3] by his wife Hester Herbert, daughter of Hugh Herbert of Norwich in Norfolk.^[4] In 1640 Peter Bulteel was one of the wealthiest residents of Broad Street ward in the City of London. Peter Bulteel was born in England, but classed himself as a "merchant stranger", which status although costly in terms of taxation, removed him from civic responsibility and political commitment.^[5]

Peter Bulteel's brother was a prominent pastor to the Walloon church in Kent. John's cousin was also named John Bulteel, a writer and translator.^[6][7][8]

Career

Between c.1658 and 1667 he was Secretary to

He died on 7 December 1669 and was buried in the Church of St. Martin in the Fields, Westminster.[13] He died intestate, and having never married, without children.

Continuing Bulteel family

A branch of the Bulteel family later grew to great prominence seated in South Devon, at the estates of

Sources

• Cruickshanks, Eveline, biography of Bulteel, John (d.1669), of Westminster, published in
  History of Parliament, House of Commons 1660–1690, ed. B.D. Henning, 1983 [3]