| 词条 | Francis Buller (died 1682) |
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Francis Buller (c 1630 – 1682) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1659 and 1679. OriginsBuller 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.[2] His younger brother and eventual heir was John Buller (1632–1716), also a Cornish MP.[3] EducationHe was educated at Leyden in 1643[3] 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.[2] CareerIn 1659, Buller was elected Member of Parliament for Cornwall in the Third Protectorate Parliament.[3] In 1660 he was elected MP for Saltash in the Convention Parliament and re-elected in 1661 for the Cavalier Parliament remaining until 1679.[4] He was considered one of the most powerful presbyterians in the country. In 1662 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.[3] Marriages & progenyBuller married twice:
DeathBuller died "in a frenzy" at the age of 52.[3] References1. ^Burke's Landed Gentry, 1937, p.279, Buller of Downes {{S-start}}{{s-par|en}}{{succession box2. ^1 {{acad|id=BLR646F|name=Buller, Francis}} 3. ^1 2 3 4 [https://books.google.com/books?id=HW1_upECKUwC&pg=PA748&lpg=PA748&dq=%22Francis+Buller%22+Saltash&source=bl&ots=MrGgE8vu87&sig=LUNmWAIrTJJnWb7jVBh5UzblBB8&hl=en&ei=frpVTfCiHcK3hAeczrnmDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CBsQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=%22Francis%20Buller%22%20Saltash&f=false Basil Duke Henning The House of Commons, 1660–1690] 4. ^{{Rayment-hc|s|2|date=March 2012}} 5. ^Burke's Landed Gentry, 1937, p.279 | title=Member of Parliament for Cornwall | before= Thomas Ceely Richard Carter Anthony Rous John St Aubyn Walter Moyle Francis Rous Anthony Nicholl William Braddon | with= Hugh Boscawen | years=1659 | after= Not represented in restored Rump }}{{succession box | title=Member of Parliament for Saltash | before= Not represented in restored Rump | with= Anthony Buller 1660 | with2 =John Buller 1661–1679 | years=1660–1679 | after= Bernard Granville | after2= Nicholas Courtney }}{{S-end}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Buller, Francis}} 11 : 1630 births|1682 deaths|Members of the pre-1707 English Parliament for constituencies in Cornwall|Year of birth uncertain|Members of the Middle Temple|Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge|Alumni of the University of Oxford|People from Saltash|People of the Stuart period|English MPs 1661–1679|Buller family |
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