John Buller (politician, born 1721), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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British Member of Parliament (1721-1786)
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About John Buller (politician, born 1721)
- John Buller (1721–1786) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons for 39 years from 1747 to 1786. Buller was the son of John Francis Buller, M.P.
- and his wife Rebecca Trelawny, daughter of Sir Jonathan Trelawny, 3rd Baronet bishop of Winchester and was born on 24 Jan.
- 1721.
- He matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford on 25 October 1738.
- He entered Middle Temple in 1740 and Inner Temple in 1743 and was called to the bar in February 1747.
- In 1746 he was mayor of East Looe and in the 1747 general election he was returned as Member of Parliament for East Looe.In 1754 Buller was re-elected MP for East Looe and in the same year was appointed Comptroller of the Mint.
- He was also mayor of East Looe again and appointed Recorder of East Looe in 1754.
- From 1759 to 1761 he was secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
- He married Mary St Aubyn, daughter of Sir John St Aubyn, 3rd Baronet on 3 March 1760.Buller was re-elected MP for East Looe in 1761.
- He was mayor of West Looe by mandamus in 1763, and 1764.
- In July 1765 he was Lord of the Admiralty, a post he held until September 1780.
- He was re-elected MP for East Looe in 1768.
- Following the death of his first wife in August 1767, he remarried to Elizabeth Caroline Hunter, daughter of John Hunter on 4 November 1768.
- He was again mayor of East Looe in 1772 and in the same year became auditor of the Duchy of Cornwall.
- He was returned again as MP for East Looe in 1774 and 1780 .
- He was Lord of the Treasury from September 1780 to March 1782 and again in December 1783.
- He was lastly returned as MP for East Looe in 1784.Buller died on 26 July 1786.
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