Thomas Lowndes Bullock, FRS (27 September 1845 – 20 March 1915) was an English author, colonial administrator, academic and

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who served as Professor of Chinese at the

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. He was the father of diplomat and explorer

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Early life

Bullock was born in Radwinter,

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to John Frederick Bullock (1809 - 1865), Rector of Radwinter, and his first-cousin, Elizabeth Anne Bullock (born 1814), daughter of Jonathan Bullock of Faulkbourne and Margaret Downes.Bullock, Llewellyn C W, ''Memoirs of the Bullock Family'', A J Lawrence 1905 He was a member of the old

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of the Faulkbourne branch of the family, descended from Sir Edward Bullock. He attended

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and

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Career

Following University, Bullock was appointed as a member of Her Britannic Majesty's consular service in China from 1869–97. He was appointed a

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of the

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in 1890. From 1899 he went on to be appointed Professor of Chinese at the

, a position now called

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following the donation of

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Family

Bullock married Florence Louisa Elizabeth Horton, daughter of Samuel Lewis Horton of The Park House, Shifnal and Ann Maria Philips, they had three children: * Agnes Violet Bullock, 1884 - 1897. * Margaret Annie Bullock, born 1886, married in 1920 to

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, and had issue. * Guy Henry Bullock, British diplomat, born 1887, married in 1916 to Laura Alice McGloin.

Publications

Books

* ''Progressive Exercises In The Chinese Written Language'', 1901 *
Progressive Exercises in the Chinese Written Language
', 2nd edition, revised and enlarged, 1912

Articles

* * * (tr.) ''Peking Gazettes'' (1887–89) *

References

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Members of the Inner Temple Shaw Professors of Chinese Fellows of University College, Oxford