User:Zanimum/Wm. Perkins Bull

Early life and education (1870-1896)
Bull was listed as a matriculant in 1889.

Legal career
In April 1898, Lieutenant Governor Oliver Mowat appointed Bull as a notary public for Ontario. (Clara Brett Martin was appointed at the same time, becoming the first woman in this position.)

As of 1899, Bull practiced at the Toronto firm Gallagher & Bull.

He was appointed as a Commissioner for Taking Affidavits in Alberta, 1912.

Business activities
In October 1894, a Torontonian named William Perkins Bull was listed as co-applicant for the incorporation of the Wentworth Navigation Company. The firm hoped to run steamboats "between Quebec and Chicago, Duluth and Owen Sound." The company was subject to a personal injury claim in 1899, and one of its steamers burned at St. Catherines in 1904.

Bull filed a "winding up order" for McLachlan Electric Gas Motor Company, Ltd. in late 1906. The comapny had been incorporated in 1899, and taken the present name in 1902.

Bull announced in 1912 that he would "stock an intensive farm at Cobble Hill — thirty-five miles out of Victoria." Still in planning as of May 1913, the property was to span over 1000 acres of livestock, nursery, landscape gardening, and "civic art plant."

As of 1913, media accounts listed Bull as the president of the British Canadian Realty Company.

Additional activities
In November 1911, Bull unveiled a statue of Edward VII, in the London borough of Wandsworth. At the event, he spoke of Canada's role as a Dominion of Britain. Paid for by public "subscription", it is considered to be the first statue of the King to be erected, after his death.

Bull was a patron of a new pipe organ in a Wesleyan Church, in Sandgate, England, in June 1913.

Bull paid £1000 towards the purchase of The Crystal Palace, in July 1913, as part of the London Mayor's fundraising to make the structure a publicly-owned asset.

Family life
The Bulls' first child, Dorothy Sarah Perkins Bull, was born in 1898. Their first son, Bartle Brennan Bull, was born 1 April 1902, at Lorne Hall. Maria Amelia Rebecca Bull was born 10 September 1903, at Lorne Hall. A son named William Perkins Bull was born 10 April 1905, at Lorne Hall. Michael Herbert Bull was born 8 October 1906, at Lorne Hall.

Additional activities
Bull hosted Alfred Byrne, Lord Mayor of Dublin, at Lorne Hall in 1935.

As of 1931, Bull and wife lived variously between Lorne Hall and 2 Eaton Place, London.

Family life
Michael Bull became engaged to Noreen Hennessy, one of the daughters of George Hennessy, 1st Baron Windlesham and Lady Hennessey, in July 1931.

The Perkins Bull Collection
Bull's collection was on display at both the Brampton Public Library, now known as the Carnegie Building, and at the Brampton High School, as of 1945.

Memberships

 * Lumbermen's Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo, as of 1903