Richard Buller MP (1578 - 1642)

Born 1578 in Shillingham, Cornwall, England

Ancestors

Husband of Alice (Hayward) Buller — married before 1603 in England

Descendants

Died 1642 at about age 64 in Plymouth, Devon, England

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Biography

Sir Richard Buller (1578–1642) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1621 and 1642. He was a Parliamentarian officer during the English Civil War.^[1]

Buller was born at Shillingham Cornwall, the son of Francis Buller^[2] and his wife Thomasina Williams, daughter of Thomas Williams of Stowford, an Elizabethan-era Speaker of the House of Commons.^[3] He was knighted in 1608.

Buller married Alice Hayward, the daughter of Sir Rowland Hayward, Lord Mayor of London.^[4]They had six sons and six daughters:

• Francis,^[2] Esq, MP
• George,^[2] MP
• Richard^[2]
• John^[2]
• Anthony,^[2] MP
• Samuel
• Katherine^[2]
• Julian,^[2] wife of Bernard Tanner
• Alice,^[2] wife of George Kekewich
• Mary
• Maria
• Thomasine, wife of Josias Calmady^[5]

Three of their sons, Francis, George, and Anthony, served in Parliament.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Buller
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8} The will of Frauncis Buller of Tregarrick in the parish of Pelint in the countie of Cornewall Esquyer, dated 10 May 1615, proved 27 October 1615. National Archives ref. PROB 11/126/336. Transcribed by Elizabeth Kipp, Latin translation and other revisions by Judith Upton.
3. ↑ http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/buller-sir-richard-1578-1642
4. ↑ The House of Commons, 1660-1690, Volume 1 By Basil Duke Henning
5. ↑ Richardson, Douglas [1] "Plantagenet Ancestry" pg. 589
6. ↑ Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp. 229–239.

• Richardson: Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd edn. (2011), Volume 1, page 553, COURTENAY 14.

• Richardson: Plantagenet Ancestry, 2nd edn. (2011), Volume 1, page 589, COURTENAY 17.

• Vivian (ed): Visitations of Cornwall page 56, Buller of Shillingham (citing Visitation of 1620 with additions from parish registers etc).

• Maclean, John. The Parochial and Family History of the Deanery of Trigg Minor, in the County of Cornwall (Nichols & Sons, London, 1873) Vol. 1, Page 34

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