Christopher William Puller Christopher William Puller (1807–1864), from 1857 Christopher William Giles Puller , was an English barrister and politician.[ 1] [ 2]
Life
The son of Sir Christopher Puller and his wife Louise King, he was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford . A college friend of W. E. Gladstone , he graduated B.A. in 1828, and M.A. in 1832. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1832, and went into practice as a chancery barrister. He resided at Youngsbury .[ 1] [ 3]
At the 1857 general election , Puller became Member of Parliament for Hertfordshire ; and he was re-elected in 1859.[ 1] [ 4] church rate debates of 1858 to 1861.[ 5] [ 6]
Giles Puller was in 1858 a secretary of the India Missions Extension of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel ; he had been on the Standing Committee of the Society from 1850.[ 7] [ 8] [ 9] Henry Surtees .[ 10]
Legacy
A memorial window was created in St Mary's Church, Standon, Hertfordshire .[ 11] [ 12]
Family
St John the Evangelist church in Standon, Hertfordshire , built in 1847 by Christopher William Puller and his mother, to a design by Anthony Salvin [ 13] [ 14] Puller married Emily Blake, daughter of William Blake , on 2 July 1831. They had five sons and four daughters.[ 15] [ 16]
Arthur Giles (born 1833), the eldest son.[ 17]
Charles (born 1834), the second son, who was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge , and vicar of Standon, Hertfordshire .[ 18]
Christopher Cholmeley (1839–1902), Treasury clerk.[ 19]
Frederick William (1842–1938), fourth son, a clergyman who joined the Society of St John the Evangelist .[ 20] [ 21]
Mary Caroline, who married John Garnier (1838–1929), son of Thomas Garnier .[ 22]
Alice Henrietta, the youngest daughter, married in 1882 Claude Cecil Thornton as his second wife; he was vicar of High Cross, Hertfordshire from 1881 to 1892.[ 23]
Notes
^ a b c E. Walford (1882). The county families of the United Kingdom ISBN 978-5-87194-361-8 ^ "Puller, Christopher William Giles- (1807–1864), politician and barrister, The National Archives" . Retrieved 24 December 2015 .^ William Ewart Gladstone (15 February 1969). The Gladstone Diaries: 1825–1832 : 1833–1839 ISBN 978-0-19-821370-3 ^ "The Present Peerage of the United Kingdom" . Internet Archive . Retrieved 24 December 2015 .^ J. P. Ellens (January 2008). Religious Routes to Gladstonian Liberalism: The Church Rate Conflict in England and Wales 1852–1868 ISBN 978-0-271-02843-9 ^ The British Controversialist: And Literary Magazine 367 .^ The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, Art, and Finance ^ Mission Field: A Monthly Record of the Proceedings of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts ^ Sylvanus Urban (pseud. van Edward Cave.) (1864). Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle ^ The Gentleman's Magazine 515 .^ The Builder ^ "High Cross Puller Memorial C of E Primary School – 1102368, Historic England" . Retrieved 24 December 2015 .^ 'Parishes: Standon', in A History of the County of Hertford : Volume 3, ed. William Page (London, 1912), pp. 347–366 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/herts/vol3/pp347-366 [accessed 18 December 2015].
^ Jill Allibone (1987). Anthony Salvin: Pioneer of Gothic Revival Architecture, 1799–1881 . University of Missouri Press. pp. 171–. ISBN 978-0-8262-0629-9 ^ Sir Bernard Burke (1863). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland ^ The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, China, and Australasia ^ Edward Walford (1869). The County Families of the United Kingdom Or, Royal Manual of the Titled and Untitled Aristocracy of Great Britain and Ireland ... ^ Sir Bernard Burke (1871). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland ^ "Register, 1847–1962 – 9, Radley College Archives" . Retrieved 24 December 2015 .^ David Bertie (2000). Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689–2000 406– 7. ISBN 978-0-567-08746-1 ^ College of S. Augustine Canterbury: Participants at the Consecretation, S. Peter's Day 1848 (PDF) ^ Richard J. Bleiler (1 June 2015). The Strange Case of "The Angels of Mons": Arthur Machen's World War I Story, the Insistent Believers, and His Refutations ISBN 978-1-4766-2096-1 ^ "Thornton, Claude Cecil (THNN862CC)" . A Cambridge Alumni Database . University of Cambridge.
