Admiral Sir Alexander Buller GCB was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be CommanderinChief, China Station.
Alexander Buller was born onJune 1834, the second son of the Reverend Richard Buller, rector of Lanreath, Cornwall, and his wife, Elizabeth Hornby, daughter of John Hornby of Hook, near Titchfield, Hampshire. His father was from a wealthy and wellconnected family with a naval tradition the rectors father, James Buller, was the younger son of John Buller, who owned Morval House, near Looe, Cornwall. This James Buller, who died in 1830, was a Lord of the Admiralty in 1811 and later a Clerk to the Privy Council.
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