page_title: Bullock family
section_title: Twentieth century
hierarchical_section_title: Bullock family / Twentieth century
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of Barbara Lupton (later Lady Bullock) - taken at Cambridge University c. 1913
context_page_description: The Bullock family traces its roots to the 12th century, living primarily in the southern English counties of Berkshire and Essex from the mid-Norman period to the late Victorian era.
context_section_description: Walter Henry Bullock died in 1924. His son, Henry Talbot Bouverie Bullock, had only a daughter. Therefore, the family line passed to Walter's brother, the Rev. Llewellyn Christopher Watson (1886-1936). He married Cecil Augusta Margaret Spearman, whose mother, Lady Maria Louisa Spearman (1837-1917), was the daughter of Thomas FitzMaurice, 5th Earl of Orkney, the great-nephew of the former Prime Minister William Petty-FitzMaurice, 1st Marquess of Landsdowne.
  The line passed to their eldest son, Walter Llewellyn Bullock (1890-1944), an academic and promoter of Italian studies at the Universities of Chicago and Manchester, where he was Serena Professor of Italian.
  The line then passed to Llewellyn’s second son, Sir Christopher Bullock, K.C.B, C.B.E.(1891-1972), who served as Permanent Under-Secretary at the British Air Ministry from 1931 to 1936. Appointed at the age of 38, he remains one of the youngest civil servants to have headed a British government department. In 1917 he  married Barbara May Lupton, the second cousin of  Olive Middleton (née Lupton), great-grandmother of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge. It was reported in 2016 that "Olive Middleton volunteered as a nurse with her relative Lady Bullock" - a social science graduate - during World War 1.
  Sir Christopher was succeeded by his elder son, Richard Henry Watson Bullock C.B.,(1920–1998) who was Deputy Permanent Secretary at the Department of Trade and Industry and a consultant for Faulkbourn Consultancy Services.
  Richard, in turn, was succeeded by his son, the actor and art historian Osmund Bullock, the current head of the family.
  Sir Christopher's younger son, Edward Anthony Watson Bullock (1926-2015) served in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and married Jenifer, elder daughter of Sir Richmond Palmer.
caption: Lady Bullock at Cambridge University c. 1913
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