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| honorific-prefix = [[The Right Honourable]]<br />
| name = Charles Buller<br />
| honorific-suffix = <br />
| image = CharlesBullerKensalGreen01.jpg <br />
| caption = Funerary monument, [[Kensal Green Cemetery]], London<br />
| order1 = [[Judge Advocate General (United Kingdom)|Judge Advocate General]]<br />
| term_start1 = 8 July 1846 <br />
| term_end1 = 1847<br />
| monarch1 = [[Victoria of the United Kingdom|Victoria]]<br />
| primeminister1 = [[John Russell, 1st Earl Russell|Lord John Russell]]<br />
| predecessor1 = [[James Stuart-Wortley (Liberal politician)|Hon. James Stuart-Wortley]]<br />
| successor1 = [[Sir William Goodenough Hayter, 1st Baronet|William Goodenough Hayter]]<br />
| order2 = [[Poor Law Board|President of the Poor Law Board]]<br />
| term_start2 = 23 July 1847<br />
| term_end2 = 29 November 1848<br />
| monarch2 = Victoria<br />
| primeminister2 = Lord John Russell<br />
| predecessor2 = New office<br />
| successor2 = [[Matthew Talbot Baines]]<br />
| birth_date = {{birth-date|6 August 1806|}} <br />
| birth_place = [[Calcutta]], British India<br />
| death_date = {{death-date and age|29 November 1848|6 August 1806}} <br />
| death_place = London, England <br />
| nationality = British<br />
| party = [[Whig (British political faction)|Whig]] <br />
| alma_mater = [[Trinity College, Cambridge]] <br />
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'''Charles Buller''' (6 August 1806 – 29 November 1848) was a British barrister, politician and reformer.<br />
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==Background and education==<br />
Born in [[Calcutta]], [[British India]], Buller was the son of [[Charles Buller (1774–1848)|Charles Buller]] (1774–1848), a member of a well-known [[Cornwall|Cornish]] family, and Barbara Isabella Kirkpatrick, daughter of General [[William Kirkpatrick (East India Company officer)|William Kirkpatrick]], considered an exceptionally talented woman. His younger brother was Sir [[Arthur William Buller]].<ref>{{cite book |title=The Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, of Great Britain And Ireland |page=144 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i95kAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA144 |access-date=21 June 2018 |language=en|last1=Dod |first1=Charles Roger Phipps |year=1863 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Cooper |first1=Thompson |title=Sir A. W. Buller |journal=The Register, and Magazine of Biography |date=1869 |page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_B3QEAAAAQAAJ/page/n469 466] |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_B3QEAAAAQAAJ |language=en}}</ref> He was educated at [[Harrow School|Harrow]], then privately in [[Edinburgh]] by [[Thomas Carlyle]], and afterwards at [[Trinity College, Cambridge]], gaining his BA in 1828.<ref name=Venn>{{acad|id=BLR824C|name=Buller, Charles}}</ref> He had been admitted to [[Lincoln's Inn]] in 1824, and became a [[barrister]] in 1831.<br />
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==Political career==<br />
Before this date, however, Buller had succeeded his father as Member of Parliament for [[West Looe (UK Parliament constituency)|West Looe]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Wcommons2.htm |title=leighrayment.com House of Commons: Waterloo to West Looe |access-date=19 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090501184856/http://leighrayment.com/commons/Wcommons2.htm |archive-date=1 May 2009 |url-status=unfit }}</ref> After the passing of the [[Reform Act 1832|Reform Bill of 1832]] and the consequent disenfranchisement of this borough, he was returned to [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|Parliament]] for [[Liskeard (UK Parliament constituency)|Liskeard]], a seat he retained until he died.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Lcommons3.htm |title=leighrayment.com House of Commons: Lichfield and Tamworth to London and Westminster South |access-date=19 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081029034529/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Lcommons3.htm |archive-date=29 October 2008 |url-status=unfit }}</ref><br />
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An eager reformer and a friend of [[John Stuart Mill]], Buller voted for the [[Reform Act 1832|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. In the aftermath of the [[Rebellions of 1837]], he went to Canada in 1838 with [[John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham|Lord Durham]] as private secretary, and served in the second session of the [[Special Council of Lower Canada]]. For a long time it was believed that Buller wrote Lord Durham's famous ''[[Report on the Affairs of British North America]]''. However, this is now denied by several authorities, among them being Durham's biographer, Stuart J Reid,<ref>{{Cite book|last=Reid|first=Stuart J.|url=https://archive.org/details/lifeandlettersf01reidgoog/page/n374/mode/2up|title=Life and Letters of the 1st Earl of Durham, 1792-1840|publisher=Longmans|year=1906|volume=II|pages=340}}</ref> who mentions that Buller described this statement as a groundless assertion in an article which he wrote for the ''[[Edinburgh Review]]''. Nevertheless, it is quite possible that the ''Report'' was largely drafted by Buller, and it almost certainly bears traces of his influence. He also wrote ''A Sketch of Lord Durham's mission to Canada'', which was never printed. He returned with Durham to England in the same year. Buller and [[Sir William Molesworth, 8th Baronet|Sir William Molesworth]] were associated with [[Edward Gibbon Wakefield]] and his schemes for colonising South Australia, Canada and [[New Zealand Company|New Zealand]].<br />
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Buller was briefly [[Secretary to the Board of Control]] under [[William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne|Lord Melbourne]] during 1841. After practising as a barrister, he was made [[Judge Advocate General (United Kingdom)|Judge Advocate General]] by [[John Russell, 1st Earl Russell|Lord John Russell]] in 1846,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=20621 |date=10 July 1846 |page=2534 }}</ref> and became the first [[Poor Law Board|President of the Poor Law Board]] the following year.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=20807 |date=17 December 1847 |page=4629 }}</ref><br />
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==Personal life==<br />
Buller died in office in London in November 1848, aged 42. He never married. He was considered a very talented man, witty, popular and generous, and is described by Carlyle as "the genialest radical I have ever met". Among his intimate friends were [[George Grote|Grote]], [[William Makepeace Thackeray|Thackeray]], [[Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton|Monckton Milnes]] and [[Louisa Baring, Lady Ashburton|Lady Ashburton]]. A bust of Buller is in [[Westminster Abbey]],<ref>[[Arthur Penrhyn Stanley|Stanley, A.P.]], ''Historical Memorials of Westminster Abbey'' ([[London]]; [[John Murray (publishing house)|John Murray]]; [[1882]]), p. 231.</ref> and another was unveiled at Liskeard in 1905.<ref>Leonard Courtney's speech on that occasion of the unveiling of the Liskeard bust was reported in full in ''The Times'', Saturday, 14 January 1905; p. 7; Issue 37604; col C: Mr. Courtney on Charles Buller.</ref> He left behind him, so [[Charles Greville (diarist)|Charles Greville]] says, a memory cherished for his delightful social qualities and a vast credit for undeveloped powers.<ref>An appreciation of Charles Buller's life and achievements appeared as an editorial in ''The Times'', Thursday, 30 November 1848; p. 4; Issue 20034; col A.</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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*T Carlyle, ''[[Reminiscences (Carlyle)|Reminiscences]]'' (1881)<br />
*S. J. Reid, ''Life and Letters of the 1st Earl of Durham'' (1906)<br />
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