William Buller

This article is about the Bishop of Exeter. For the racing driver, see William Buller (racing driver).

Right Reverend William Buller, DD (1735–1796) was Bishop of Exeter from 1792 to 1796.^[1]

He was born probably at Morval, Cornwall to parents John Francis Buller and Rebecca Trelawney. He was educated at the Christ Church College, Oxford gaining BA in 1757, MA in 1759; BD and DD in 1781.^[2] His first ecclesiastical appointments were as rector of Brightwell and canon of Winchester Cathedral. He was also rector of North Waltham,^[3] and became a canon residentiary of Windsor in 1773 and was selected dean of Exeter in 1784. In 1790 he was translated as Dean of Canterbury.^[4] Buller returned to Exeter as Bishop in late 1792.^[2]^[5]

William married Anne Thomas, the daughter of John Thomas, Bishop of Winchester, on 19 April 1762.^[6]

Buller was a friend of George Austen, the father of Jane Austen, who educated his son Richard. Richard became a correspondent of Jane, but died young.^[7] He died on 12 December 1796.

Notes

↑ http://www.exetermemories.co.uk/EM/bishops.php
1 2 Aston, Nigel. "Buller, William (1735–1796)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/39561. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
↑ http://www.southernlife.org.uk/northwaltham_church.htm
↑ http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=34584
↑ The London Gazette: no. 13457. p. 694. 8 September 1792.
↑ "Thomas, John (1696-1781)". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
↑ Irene Collins, Jane Austen and the Clergy (2003), pp. 9-10.

External links

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography page

Church of England titles
Preceded by George Horne	Dean of Canterbury 1790–1792	Succeeded by Folliott Cornewall
Preceded by John Ross	Bishop of Exeter 1792–1796	Succeeded by Henry Reginald Courtenay

Deans of Exeter

High Medieval	Serlo Roger de Wynkleigh William de Stanwey Roger de Toriz John Noble John Pycot Andrew de Kilkenny

Late Medieval	Henry de Somerset Thomas de Lechlade Bartholomew de Sancto Laurentio Richard de Coleton Richard de Braylegh Reginald de Bugwell Robert Sumpter Thomas Walkyngton Ralph Tregrision Stephen Payn John Cobethorn John Hals Henry Webber Peter Courtenay Lionel Woodville John Arundel

Early modern	Edward Willoughby Thomas Hobbes John Vesey Richard Pace Reginald Pole Simon Haynes James Haddon Thomas Reynolds Gregory Dodds George Carew Stephen Townesend Matthew Sutcliffe William Peterson Seth Ward Edward Young George Cary The Hon Richard Annesley William Wake Lancelot Blackburne Edward Trelawney John Gilbert Alured Clarke William Holmes Charles Lyttleton Jeremiah Milles William Buller Charles Harward

Late modern	Charles Talbot George Gordon John Garnett Whittington Landon Thomas Lowe Charles Ellicott The Viscount Midleton Archibald Boyd Benjamin Cowie Alfred Earle Henry Gamble Walter Matthews Spencer Carpenter Alexander Wallace Marcus Knight Clifford Chapman Richard Eyre Keith Jones Jonathan Meyrick Jonathan Draper

Deans of Canterbury

Early modern	Nicholas Wotton Thomas Godwin Richard Rogers Thomas Nevile Charles Fotherby John Boys Isaac Bargrave George Aglionby Thomas Turner John Tillotson John Sharp George Hooper George Stanhope Elias Sydall John Lynch William Freind John Potter Brownlow North John Moore The Hon James Cornwallis George Horne William Buller Folliott Cornewall

Late modern	Thomas Powys Gerrard Andrewes Hugh Percy Richard Bagot William Lyall Henry Alford Robert Payne Smith Frederic Farrar Henry Wace George Bell Dick Sheppard Hewlett Johnson Ian White-Thomson Victor de Waal John Simpson Robert Willis

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 66321565

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