10 Facts About Alexander Buller

Admiral Sir Alexander Buller was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, China Station.

Alexander Buller was born on 30 June 1834, the second son of Rev Richard Buller, rector of Lanreath, Cornwall, and his wife, Elizabeth Hornby, daughter of John Hornby of Hook, near Titchfield, Hampshire.

Alexander Buller's father was from a wealthy and well-connected family with a naval tradition; the rector's father, James Buller, was the younger son of John Buller, who owned Morval House, near Looe, Cornwall.

The rectory had previously been occupied by his cousin, another Richard Alexander Buller, who had died in 1826 and, having graduated from Oriel College, Oxford with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1826, Richard Alexander Buller succeeded his cousin in 1829.

Alexander Buller married his wife the following year and he appears to have brought his children up in the rectory, employing a nurse and later a governess to assist in their upbringing and tutoring.

Alexander Buller served in the Black Sea during the Crimean War.

Alexander Buller served in the Naval Brigade as part of the Perak expedition to Malaya in 1875.

Alexander Buller dispatched eight warships to Korea and the Russian forces promptly retreated.

Admiral Alexander Buller married, in 1870, Emily Mary Tritton, a daughter of Henry Tritton of Beddington, Surrey, and had the following issue:.

Alexander Buller inherited the estate of his uncle, Charles Reginald Buller, which included the family seat of Erle Hall, and died at Exford, Somerset, in 1903, aged 69, having been taken ill while hunting.