Buller, CHARLES

Buller, CHARLES, born in Calcutta in 1806, was educated partly at Harrow and at Cambridge, but during 1822-24 was Carlyle's pupil at Edinburgh. He was called to the English bar in 1831, and entering parliament as a philosophical Radical before the Reform Bill, continued a member till his untimely death, 29th November 1848. He accompanied the Earl of Durham (q.v.) to Canada as his secretary, and was credited with the main share in writing the Governor-general's famous report on Canadian constitutional reforms.