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Herbert Bullock (1849-1907)
by Ed Grimsdale
Herbert Bullock was born on 2 February 1849 to an Essex family from Radwinter. He was a talented cricketer – good enough to play for the Gentlemen of Essex in a game against the Essex County Club’s professionals. He became a Winslow solicitor, lodging initially in the High Street. He was living at 4 High Street in 1891, where he also had his office (now a dentist's). He and his wife had moved to Horn Street by 1901, but then moved, after having sold some inherited property in Essex, to the Old Vicarage in Padbury. He was elected steward of the Winslow Bowling Club in 1879 and he was a key player in the formation of the new Winslow United Football Club in 1891. One of his hobbies was amateur singing. He was also a churchwarden, a leading member of the Winslow and District Constitutional Association (i.e. Conservatives), and Correspondent and Manager of the Winslow Schools.
Herbert Bullock married Miss Edith Neal on 20 October 1892 by special licence at Christ Church, Lancaster-gate, London. Miss Neal was the youngest daughter of the late Mr. W. Neal, of the Bell Hotel, Winslow. The bride was given away by her brother, Mr. William S. Neal. After the ceremony, the couple departed for a honeymoon in Paris.
Herbert Bullock stood unsuccessfully as a candidate for the new Winslow Parish Council in December 1894 but was elected its first Chairman by the other councillors at their first meeting in January of the following year. Early in 1904, whilst still the chairman of Winslow Parish Council, he become very ill with pneumonia after catching a dose of influenza. He died from heart failure in a railway coach bound for Winslow from Padbury on 4 July 1907 after collapsing in a compartment of a train which he’d had to run to catch. Previously Herbert had been in the habit of cycling daily between Padbury and Winslow, and he was a member of the Cycling Club. His funeral about a week later in Padbury attracted a large crowd of people including leading members of society in Winslow, Padbury and Buckingham, representatives of many of the charities and organisations and schools that Herbert had supported and Freemasons from the Winslow (Herbert had been a founding member), Addington and Buckingham Lodges. He was buried in Padbury churchyard in a grave in which his wife had been interred 9 months earlier. Their two children, Herbert John (aged 14) and Maria Virginia (aged 10) were his chief mourners.
In January 1908, a stained glass window depicting the Nativity was dedicated in Winslow Parish Church by the Archdeacon of Buckingham. It is at the east end of the south aisle. The inscription reads: “Give glory to God and remember Herbert Bullock who for twenty years was warden of this church: to his memory this window is dedicated by his friends and fellow worshippers. A.D. 1908".
Information mainly from the Bucks Herald.
Will of Herbert Bullock of Padbury and Winslow, solicitor, 1904 (proved 1907)
THIS IS THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT of me HERBERT BULLOCK of Padbury and Winslow in the county of Buckingham Solicitor I appoint my brothers Thomas Lowndes Bullock and John Frederick Watkinson Bullock and my friend William Morris of 41 Bedford Row solicitor to be EXECUTORS and Trustees of this my will I give and bequeath to my wife all my household furniture plate linen china glass and other household effects for her own use absolutely I give to my clerk Ray if in my employment at the time of my decease the sum of fifty pounds I give to each of my godchildren being sons respectively of Robert Morton and John Irvine and daughters respectively of George Loveday and Henry Bullock the sum of twenty pounds I give devise and bequeath all the rest residue and remainder of my real and personal estate to my said trustees upon trust to sell and convert the same into money and to stand possessed of the proceeds of such sale and ready money and to pay thereout my just debts funeral and testamentary expenses and invest the residue after such payment in any of the stocks funds or securities of the United Kingdom or India or any Colony or dependency of the United Kingdom or in stocks shares or debentures or debenture stock of any railway company of the United Kingdom or India or any Colony or dependency as aforesaid or in real or leasehold securities (such leaseholds having not less than 60 years to run) and to pay the interest dividends and annual produce of any such investments to my wife during the term of her natural life and after her decease I direct my said trustees to divide my said trust estate equally between all my children who shall be living at the decease of my said wife and the issue then living of any child who may have predeceased my said wife I give to my said trustees power to vary investments from time to time and power to postpone the conversion or calling in of any part of my estate as they may think fit I direct that the said William Morris acting as Executor or Trustee of this my will may charge and be remunerated out of my estate for all work done by him whether strictly professional or not IN WITNESS whereof I the have set my hand this 7th day of December one thousand nine hundred and four HERBERT BULLOCK [signature] Signed the testator as and for his last will and testament in the presence of us present at the same time who in his presence and at his request and in his presence and in the presence of each other the word “linen” having first been interlined on page 1 and the word “bequeath” having been struck out on page 4 and the word “such” having been struck out on page 5 – CHRISTINE MC INTOSH [signature] 30 Hazelwood Rd Northampton ADAH FINCH [Signature] Padbury.
ON the 19th day of October 1907 Probate of this Will was granted at Thomas Lowndes Bullock and William Morris two of the Executors.
BE IT KNOWN that Herbert Bullock of Padbury and Winslow in the County of Buckingham died on the 4th day of July 1907 at Padbury aforesaid.
AND BE IT FURTHER KNOWN that at the date hereunder written the last Will and Testament of the said deceased was proved and registered in the Principal Probate Registry of His Majesty’s High Court of Justice, and that administration of all the estate which by law devolves to and vests in the personal representative of the said deceased was granted by the aforesaid Court to Thomas Lowndes Bullock of Wood Lawn Norham Road Oxford in the County of Oxford Professor of Chinese at Oxford University the Brother of the deceased and William Morris of 41 Bedford Row in the County of Middlesex Solicitor two of the Executors named in the said Will. John Frederick Watkinson Bullock \the Brother of the deceased/ the other Executor named in the said Will having renounced Probate thereof.
Dated the 19th day of October 1907
Gross value of Estate £8243 - 8 – 6
Net value of Personal Estate £2130 - 19 - 11
Resworn £13,535 - 9 - 9
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