Buller

Buller, Charles, politician, was born in 1806 in Calcutta. Educated at Harrow and Cambridge, and was for some time under the tuition of Thomas Carlyle. In 1830 he was returned to Parliament for West Looe, and, after the passing of the Reform Bill, for Liskeard. In 1838 he went with Lord Durham to Canada as chief secretary; in 1841 became secretary to the Board of Control; in 1846 judge advocate-general, and in 1847 chief poor-law commissioner. He died in 1848.