Thomas Lowndes Bullock

Thomas Lowndes Bullock, FRS (27 September 1845 – 20 March 1915) was an English author, colonial administrator, academic and sinologist who served as Professor of Chinese at the University of Oxford.^[1] He was the father of diplomat and explorer Guy Bullock.

Thomas Lowndes Bullock FRS
Born	(1845-09-27)27 September 1845 Radwinter, Essex, England
Died	25 March 1915(1915-03-25) (aged 69) London, England
Education	Winchester College
Alma mater	New College, Oxford
Occupation(s)	Colonial Administrator and Academic
Spouse	Florence Louisa Elizabeth Horton
Children	2 including Guy Henry Bullock

Early life

Arms – Bullock quartering Watson 1810

Bullock was born in Radwinter, Essex to John Frederick Bullock (1809 - 1865), Rector of Radwinter, and his first-cousin, Elizabeth Anne Bullock (born 1814), daughter of Jonathan Bullock of Faulkbourne and Margaret Downes.^[2][3] He was a member of the old Bullock family of the Faulkbourne branch of the family, descended from Sir Edward Bullock. He attended Winchester College and New College, Oxford.^[1]

Career

Following University, Bullock was appointed as a member of Her Britannic Majesty's consular service in China from 1869–97.^[3] He was appointed a Barrister of the Inner Temple in 1890. From 1899 he went on to be appointed Professor of Chinese at the University of Oxford, a position now called Shaw Professor of Chinese following the donation of Sir Run Run Shaw.^[4]

Family

Bullock married Florence Louisa Elizabeth Horton, daughter of Samuel Lewis Horton of The Park House, Shifnal and Ann Maria Philips, they had three children:^[3]

• Agnes Violet Bullock, 1884 - 1897.
• Margaret Annie Bullock, born 1886, married in 1920 to Sir Claud Severn, and had issue.
• Guy Henry Bullock, British diplomat, born 1887, married in 1916 to Laura Alice McGloin.

Publications

Books

• Progressive Exercises In The Chinese Written Language, 1901
• Progressive Exercises in the Chinese Written Language, 2nd edition, revised and enlarged, 1912

Articles

• "A Trip into the Interior of Formosa". Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London. Vol. 21. 1877. pp. 266, 272.
• "The Great Mahomedan Rebellion in Yunnan". The China Review. Vol. 16. 1887. pp. 83, 95.
• (tr.) Peking Gazettes (1887–89)
• "Intercourse in the Past between China and Foreign Countries". The Imperial And Asiatic Quarterly Review And Oriental And Colonial Record. Vol. 8. 1899.

References

1. Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886; Thomas Lowndes Bullock". London: Parker and Co.
2. Bullock, Llewellyn C W, Memoirs of the Bullock Family, A J Lawrence 1905
3. "Who's Who". Oxford University Press.
4. King, Michelle (2014). Between Birth and Death: Female Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century China. Stanford University Press. p. 82. ISBN 9780804788939.