Colonial Despatches

William Thomas Bullock was assistant secretary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. Born in London and educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, he received a BA degree and was made a deacon in 1847.1 In June 1850, he was appointed assistant secretary to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, serving in 1858 as one of two such assistants to the Reverend Ernest Hawkins.2 In 1865, he became secretary to the society, a position he held until his death at Menton, France, on 27 February 1879.3

• 1. P. B. Austen, rev. Clare Brown, Bullock, William Thomas, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
• 2. Ibid.
• 3. Ibid.