Francis Buller

Francis Buller (c. 1630 – 1682) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1659 and 1679.

Origins Buller was the eldest son and heir of Francis Buller, MP, of Shillingham near Saltash in Cornwall, by his wife Thomasine Honeywood and was baptised at Saltash on 10 January 1630. His younger brother and eventual heir was John Buller (1632–1716), also a Cornish MP. and at Trinity College, Cambridge where he was awarded BA in 1647. He also entered Middle Temple in 1646, received MA from Oxford in 1649 and was called to the bar in 1652. He was considered one of the most powerful presbyterians in the country. In 1662 he became recorder of Saltash. He was active in parliament on behalf of the tinners of Cornwall. In 1666 he was tried under the Security Act for treason on account of indiscrete speech and was fined £30,000. He lost his own estate and his first wife's estate was alienated. Later he retired to the Cambridgeshire estate of his second wife. He received few votes in the election of 1679 and did not stand for parliament again. Their son James Buller (d.1707) died without issue, when his heir became his uncle John Buller (1632–1716), MP. Secondly in 1666 to Lady Catherine Maynard, daughter of John Rushout, merchant of London, and widow of Sir John Maynard of Tooting Graveney, Surrey.

Death Buller died "in a frenzy" at the age of 52.