1. Charles Buller was a British barrister, politician and reformer.
11 Facts About Charles Buller
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Charles Buller was educated at Harrow, then privately in Edinburgh by Thomas Carlyle, and afterwards at Trinity College, Cambridge, gaining his BA in 1828.
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Charles Buller had been admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1824, and became a barrister in 1831.
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An eager reformer and a friend of John Stuart Mill, Charles Buller voted for the Great Reform Bill, favoured other progressive measures, and presided over the committee on the state of the records and the one appointed to inquire into the state of election law in Ireland in 1836.
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However, this is denied by several authorities, among them being Durham's biographer, Stuart J Reid, who mentions that Charles Buller described this statement as a groundless assertion in an article which he wrote for the Edinburgh Review.
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Charles Buller wrote A Sketch of Lord Durham's mission to Canada, which was never printed.
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Charles Buller returned with Durham to England in the same year.
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Charles Buller was briefly Secretary to the Board of Control under Lord Melbourne during 1841.
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Charles Buller died in office in London in November 1848, aged 42.
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Charles Buller was considered a very talented man, witty, popular and generous, and is described by Carlyle as "the genialest radical I have ever met".
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Charles Buller left behind him, so Charles Greville says, a memory cherished for his delightful social qualities and a vast credit for undeveloped powers.