Henry Bull 1683/4-1749

Henry BULL 1683/4-1749

Bull's bookplate (British Museum Franks Collection 4278)

Biographical Note

Born in Suffolk. BA Queens' College, Cambridge 1705, MA 1708, BD 1716, DD 1721. Rector of St Botolph, Cambridge 1717-18, vicar of Oakington, Cambridgeshire 1718-22, of Wisbech 1722-49.

Books

Bull used an engraved armorial bookplate (Franks 4278); the extent and disposition of his library is not known.

Sources

• Gambier Howe, E. R. J. Franks bequest: catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed to the ... British Museum. London, 1903.
• Venn, J. and J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge, 1922.