Robert Ashington Bullen
| Revd. Robert Ashington Bullen BA, FLS, FGS | |||||||||
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| Born | 1850 | ||||||||
| Died | 1912 | ||||||||
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77 High Street, Croydon, Surrey [1880] Pyrford Vicarage, Woking [1903] The Locks, Hurstpierpoint, Sussex [1905] Englemoor, Heathside road, Woking [1906] Hilden Manor, Tonbridge, Kent [1911] | ||||||||
| Occupation | church | ||||||||
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Contents
Notes
Office Notes
House Notes
1880.11.23 The following gentleman was proposed for election, and his nomination form was ordered to be suspended in the Library:
A10:2 The resignations of the following gentlemen were accepted: - Rev. R.A. Bullen
Proposed by A.C. Haddon; seconded by J.L. Myres 1902.12.09 and elected 1903.01.07
death noted in the report of the council for 1912
Notes From Elsewhere
Robert Ashington Bullen B.A., Rector of Little Stukeley: patron, Alwyn Bishop of Ely.
Born at St. George’s, Bermuda, he had but a short acquaintance with his birthplace, his parents returning to England with their children when he was only 6 years old. That he retained a love for his birthplace is shown by his making a special expedition to the Bermudas and subsequently publishing a very interesting account of the geology of the group. R. A. Bullen settled with his parents on the south coast and was sent to a private school at Gosport, where he received his early education, and acquired a love for the sea and of Natural History which he never lost. It was originally intended that he should be prepared to enter the Civil Service, but by the force of circumstance he became instead a schoolmaster and continued his own studies privately, taking his B.A. in London University in 1873. He continued teaching after he was ordained in 1875; indeed, until 1883, when he became a curate. On December 19, 1855, he married Miss Lloyd, daughter of Mr. Edward Lloyd of Westminster. The couple had one son and two daughters. With influence of Sir Joseph Prestwich, Mr. Bullen took up and carried out a most valuable series of researches, which continued until 1911, in many localities where fossil land and freshwater Mollusca could be met with, and especially those associated with the remains of early Man. His papers on fossil Mollusca of Mallorca, Cataluna and the Bermuda Islands merit special attention. He joined the Geological Society in 1891, the Geologists’ Association in 1893, the Malacological Society in 1897, the Linnean in 1899, and the Zoological Society in 1911 He was a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and a member of the Selborne Society and the South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies
She [Annie Maria Lloyd] married in December 1885, at age 32, the Rev. Robert Ashington Bullen, who was at the time the Curate of St Margaret’s, Westminster (57). They went on to have four children (One boy, three girls), and she passed away in 1918 at age 64 in Hilden Manor, Tonbridge, Kent (37), leaving an estate of £68,000.
Obituary published by Geological Society
Reverend Robert Ashington
Bullen, late of Hilden Manor, Tonbridge, in the county
of Kent (who died on the 14th day of August, 1912,
Publications
External Publications
1894. " Shells from Portland Bubble Drift " : GEOL. MAG., pp. 431-2. .
1898. "Fossil Non-marine Mollusca, Dover " : Proc. Malac. Soc, pp. 162-5.
" The Authenticity of Plateau Implements " : Nat. Sci., xii, pp. 106-11,
pis. iv-vii.
1899. "Land-shells from Holocene deposit, Horseshoe Pit, Colley Hill,
Beigate " : Proc. Malae. Soe., iii, pp. 326-9.
1900. " Shells from Portland Bubble Drift " : GEOL. MAG., pp. 286-7.
1901. " Eolithic Implements " : GEOL. MAG., pp. 426-7; Journ. Viet. Inst.
London, 1900, pp. 1-29, figs, and pis. i-vii; 1901, pp. 191-215.
Harlyn Bay and the Discoveries of its Prehistoric Remains, pp. 1-96,
with 18 plates. 1st ed., 1901 ; 2nd ed., London, 1902; 3rd ed.,
Harlyn Bay, Padstow, 1912.
"Pleistocene Mollusea from Baised Beach Deposits, Perim Island1':
Proc. Malac. Soc, pp. 254-5.
" Note on Well-section at Dallinghoe (Suffolk) " : Abs. Proc. Geol. Soc,
1900-1, p. 78 ; Q.J.G.S., lvii, pp. 285-7, 1901.
1902. "Notes on Holocene Mollusca from North Cornwall": Proc. Malac.
Soc, v, pp. 185-8.
1903. "Eoliths from South and South-West England": GEOL. MAG.,
Dec. IV, Vol. X, pp. 102-10, Pis. VI-VIII.
" Late Keltic Cemetery at Harlyn Bay (Cornwall) " : Trans. S.E. Union
Sci. Soc, 1903, pp. 1-6, figs.
"Pleistocene Non-marine Mollusea, Portland Bill, and Holoeene Nonmarine
Mollusca from various localities": Proc. Malac Soc,
pp. 317-19.
1904. "New species of Non-marine Shells from Java and new species of
Corbicula from New South Wales " : Proc Malac. Soc, pp. 109-11,
pi. vi.
"New variety of Planispira zebra, Pfr., from the Island of Gisser, and
new species of Chloritis, Java " : Proc. Malac. Soc, pp. 191-2,
pi. xi.
1905. "Notes on land and freshwater shells from the Alhambra Ditch,
Granada, Spain; on recent land shells, Carmona, Province of
Seville ; and on land, fresh-water, and marine shells from Holocene
deposits, Carmona": Proc. Malac. Soc, pp. 309-13.
"Pleistocene and Becent Shells from Crete": Proc. Malac. Soc,
pp. 307-8.
Some materials towards the History of Wisley and Pyrford Parishes.
pp. 80. Guildford.
1906. "Notes on some Microzoa and Mollusoa from East Crete" : GEOL.
MAG., pp. 354-8, Pis. XVIII, XIX.
"Notes on a Holocene deposit at Harlton, Cambs " : Proc. Malac. Soc,
vii, pp. 85-7.
"Land and Fresh-water Mollusca from Sumatra": Proc. Malac. Soc,
1905, pp. 12-16, pi. i i ; 1906, pp. 126-30.
1907. " On the advisability of appointing a Committee for the photographic
survey of ancient remains in the British Isles " : Rep. Brit. Assoc.
Adv. Sci., p. 37.
1908. " Kitchen-Middens in North Cornwall " : GEOL. MAG., pp. 140-1.
1909. " Holocene Non-marine Shells of Perranzabuloe " : Proc. Malac. Soc,
viii, pp. 247-50, 373-4.
1910. "Mohan Deposits on the Coast at Etel " : GEOL. MAG., pp. 6-15,
97-101, Pis. IV and IX.
"Pitfalls for Elephants in Africa: in reference to Dewlish" : GEOL.
MAG., p. 334.
" Notes on (I) Pleistocene, (II) Holoeene, (III) Recent Non-marine
Shells from Alcudia (Mallorca), and (VI) Non-marine Shells from
Manresa (Cataluna) " : Proc. Malac. Soc, ix, pp. 118, 122.
1911. "Notes on the Geology of the Bermuda Islands": GEOL. MAG.,
pp. 385-95, 433-42, Pis. XVIII-XXIII, and Text-figs.
Our duty as teachers (1886). London: Social Purity Alliance
Harlyn Bay and the Discoveries of Its Prehistoric Remains
by R Ashington Bullen
House Publications
Related Material Details
RAI Material
Other Material
Huntingdonshire archives - records of induction 1898
1 letter to Edwin Ray Lankester from Reverend [Robert] Ashington Bullen, Horely, Surrey, England
in Natural History Museum