1. Reader Bullard was born in Walthamstow, the son of Charles, a dock labourer, and Mary Bullard.
11 Facts About Reader Bullard
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Reader Bullard was educated at the Monoux School there and later at Bancroft's School, Woodford Green, northeast London, and spent two years studying at Queens' College, Cambridge.
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Reader Bullard entered the Levant Consular Service of the Foreign Office in 1906.
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Baillon and Reader Bullard asked Maclean to remove Zahidi alive and without creating a fuss, and so he did so.
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In 1951, Reader Bullard became Director of the Institute of Colonial Studies in Oxford.
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Reader Bullard was appointed Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire in 1916, Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1933, Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1936, and Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1944.
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Reader Bullard was an Honorary Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge, SOAS in London, and Lincoln College, Oxford.
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In 1921, Reader Bullard married Miriam Catherine, nee Smith, daughter of the historian Arthur Lionel Smith, Master of Balliol College, Oxford.
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Reader Bullard's papers have been archived by St Antony's College, Oxford.
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Reader Bullard was on the governing body of Abingdon School from 1951 to 1955.
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Reader Bullard published a number of books, including Britain and the Middle East and his autobiography The Camels Must Go: An Autobiography.