Born: January 12, 1797, Prittlewell, Essex, England.
Died: March 7, 1874, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Buried: Camp Hill Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Bullock was the Anglican rector of St. Paul’s in Trinity, Newfoundland; rector of St. Luke’s Church, Halifax, Nova Scotia; and—when the church was designated a cathedral by Bishop Herbert Binney in 1864—St. Luke’s first dean.
His descendants relate a family story that he was once asked by a parishioner why he had not written a verse of We Love Thy Place, O God about the pulpit. He replied:
What would I write?
We love thy pulpit, Lord,
For there the word of man
Lulls the worshiper to sleep
As only sermons can.
If you know where to get a good photo of Bullock (head & shoulders, at least 200×300 pixels),