Name Francis Buller Role Politician | Died 1682 | |
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Education Trinity College, Cambridge | ||
Francis Buller (c 1630 – 1682) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1659 and 1679.
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Origins
Buller was the eldest son and heir of Francis Buller, MP, of Shillingham near Saltash in Cornwall, by his wife Thomasine Honeywood and was baptised at Saltash on 10 January 1630. His younger brother and eventual heir was John Buller (1632–1716), also a Cornish MP.
Education
He was educated at Leyden in 1643 and at Trinity College, Cambridge where he was awarded BA in 1647. He also entered Middle Temple in 1646, received MA from Oxford in 1649 and was called to the bar in 1652.
Career
In 1659, Buller was elected Member of Parliament for Cornwall in the Third Protectorate Parliament. In 1660 he was elected MP for Saltash in the Convention Parliament and re-elected in 1661 for the Cavalier Parliament remaining until 1679. He was considered one of the most powerful presbyterians in the country. In1662 he became recorder of Saltash. He was active in parliament on behalf of the tinners of Cornwall. In 1666 he was tried under the Security Act for treason on account of indiscrete speech and was fined £30,000. He lost his own estate and his first wife's estate was alienated. Later he retired to the Cambridgeshire estate of his second wife. He received few votes in the election of 1679 and did not stand for parliament again.
Marriages & progeny
Buller married twice:
Death
Buller died "in a frenzy" at the age of 52.