Francis Buller was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons

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 variously between 1624 and 1648. He supported the Parliamentary

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 side in the English Civil War

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Buller was the son of Sir Richard Buller

Richard Buller

Sir Richard Buller was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1621 and 1642. He was a Parliamentarian officer during the English Civil War....

, of Shillingham, Cornwall. The Buller family was originally from Somerset and acquired Shillingham in around 1555. He entered Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge

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 in 1620 and matriculated at the Inner Temple

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 in 1622. In 1624, Buller was elected Member of Parliament

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 for Saltash

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 and was re-elected in 1625.

In April 1640, Buller was elected MP for Saltash in the Short Parliament

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. He was elected MP for East Looe

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 for the Long Parliament

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 in November 1640 and sat until he was excluded under Pride's Purge

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 in 1648. During the Civil War he commanded a regiment for the Parliamentary army at Plymouth. He subsequently moved to Kent.

Buller married Thomasine Honeywood, daughter of Sir Thomas Honeywood of Elmstead Kent. His sons Francis

Francis Buller (died 1682)

Francis Buller was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1659 and 1679.Buller was the son of Francis Buller of Shillingham Cornwall, and his wife Thomasine Honeywood and was baptised at Saltash on 10 January 1630. He was educated at Leyden in 1643 and at Trinity College,...

 and John

John Buller (died 1716)

John Buller was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1656 and 1695.Buller was the son of Francis Buller of Shillingham Cornwall, and his wife Thomasine Honeywood...

were also MPs in Cornwall.