Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: GEORGE BULL OF the many men eminent in the Church who have received their education at Blundell's School, probably the most distinguished of all, judged from the standpoint of theological learning, was George Bull, Bishop of St. David's. There are no registers in existence of the pupils who frequented the School in the seventeenth century, hence the record of his attendance must be searched for elsewhere. Fortunately for posterity, he possessed an intimate friend, one Robert Nelson, who made it a labour of love to perpetuate his memory. From Nelson's textit{Life of Bishop Bull the following particulars of his career are mainly taken :— George Bull came of a family of some position, for several generations settled at Shapwick, in the county of Somerset. The pedigree of the family is recorded in the Visitation of the county made in the year 1623. His father, George Bull, was the second son of William Bull, the head of the family at the period of the Visitation. William Bull had a family of no less than ten sons and eight daughters. In consequence of this heavy burden on his resources his second son was put to trade, and became a mercer at Wells, where he prospered in business, and was twice Mayor of the city. He died at a comparatively early age, leaving several daughters, but only one son, George, the subject of our memoir, to whom he bequeathed a moderate estate. The story of George Bull's schooldays cannot be better told than by quoting the account of them which his biographer gives :— ' When he was fit to receive the first rudiments of learn- ing, he was placed in a grammar school at Wells, where he continued not long ; but, by the care of his guardians, was to great advantage removed to the free school of Tiverton, in Devonshire, of the greatest note of any in...