William Bullock

William Henry (Bullock) Hall (5 April 1837 – 21 April 1904) was an English first-class cricketer, journalist and military historian.

Family and early life

The son of Henry Robert Bullock, he was born into the Bullock family at Faulkbourne, Essex in April 1837. He was educated at Rugby School, before attending Balliol College, Oxford where he studied classical moderations.

Cricketer

While studying at Oxford, he played first-class cricket for Oxford University, making his debut against the Marylebone Cricket Club at Oxford in 1857. He made four further first-class appearances for Oxford, with a further appearance in 1857 followed by two in 1858 and one in 1859. Bullock scored 207 runs in his five matches, with an average of 29.57 and with a high score of 78.

Journalist

After he graduated from Oxford, he was a member of Lincoln's Inn but did not become a barrister and instead traveled to Italy, Egypt and the Holy Land.

Other assignments

He also covered the Second French intervention in Mexico in 1864–65, writing Across Mexico in 1864-5, and represented the paper in Rome from 1866 to 1867. He became an ardent partisan of the Italian Revolutionary movement fighting with Garibaldi from whom he received personal thanks. He was dispatched to Sedan during the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, where he was the chief manager of the French Peasant Relief Fund while based in France for which he was created Chevalier of . Having served as a deputy lieutenant and justice of the peace for Cambridgeshire, He was resident at Six Mile Bottom in Cambridgeshire and also had a villa at Valscure in France at Saint-Raphaël, where he died in April 1904 after a short illness resulting from paralysis.