BULLER, CHARLES English politician, born in Calcutta on Aug. 6, 1806; was educated at Harrow, then pri vately in Edinburgh by Thomas Carlyle, and afterwards at Trinity college, Cambridge. He sat in parliament from 1830 until his death in London on Nov. 29, 1848. An eager reformer and a friend of John Stuart Mill, Buller went to Canada with Lord Durham in 1838 as private secretary, and was for a long time supposed to have written Lord Durham's famous Report on the Affairs of British North America. It certainly shows signs of his influence. Buller was made judge-advocate-general in 1846 and became chief commissioner of the Poor Law about a year before his death. Buller was witty, popular, and generous, and is described by Carlyle as "the genialest radical I have ever met." See T. Carlyle, Reminiscences (i881) ; S. J. Reid, Life and Letters of the rst earl of Durham 09°6).