Alexander Buller

Alexander Buller was born on 30 June 1834, the second son of Rev. Richard Buller, rector of Lanreath, Cornwall, and his wife, Elizabeth Hornby, daughter of John Hornby of Hook, near Titchfield, Hampshire. His father was from a wealthy and well-connected family with a naval tradition; the rector's father, James Buller, was a Lord of the Admiralty in 1811 and later a Clerk to the Privy Council. The rectory had previously been occupied by his cousin, another Richard Buller, who had died in 1826 and, having graduated from Oriel College, Oxford with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1826 (proceeding to Master of Arts in 1829), Richard Buller succeeded his cousin in 1829. ==Naval career==

Buller joined the Royal Navy in 1848. Buller served in the Naval Brigade as part of the Perak expedition to Malaya in 1875. He dispatched eight warships to Korea and the Russian forces promptly retreated. He retired in 1899. and received the insignia in an investiture on board the royal yacht Victoria and Albert outside Cowes on 15 August 1902, the day before the fleet review held there to mark the coronation. ==Family and later life==

Admiral Buller married, in 1870, Emily Mary Tritton, a daughter of Henry Tritton of Beddington, Surrey, and had the following issue: • Jane Elizabeth Buller (born 1871), who married, in 1892, Major Charles Turner of the 49th Royal Berkshire Regiment. • Admiral Sir Henry Tritton Buller (1873 - 1960). • Rear Admiral Francis Alexander Waddilove Buller (born 1879) who married, in 1916, Mary Caroline, daughter of Stephen Hammick. • Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert Cecil Buller (1882 - 1916) who was commissioned into Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and died at Hooge, Belgium, on active service in the First World War. • Edward Maxwell Buller (1883 - 1931). Having fought in France during the First World War, he was discharged from the Army in 1917 due to him being "no longer physically fit for war service", and died at the nursing home at Minehead, Somerset. Through his daughter, he became grandfather to two Victoria Cross recipients, Alexander Buller Turner and Victor Buller Turner. He inherited the estate of his uncle, Charles Reginald Buller, which included the family seat of Erle Hall, ==References==