Anthony Bull CBE CStJ (18 July 1908 – 23 December 2004) was a British transport engineer and was president of the Institute of Transport.
The son of Sir William James Bull, MP (1863-1931), who was created a Baronet in 1922, and his wife Lillian Hester Brandon, Anthony Bull was educated at Gresham's School, Holt (1922-1926), and Magdalene College, Cambridge (1926-1929). He gained the Cambridge degree of MA in 1933.
Bull was the third of four broth...
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Anthony Bull CBE CStJ (18 July 1908 – 23 December 2004) was a British transport engineer and was president of the Institute of Transport.
The son of Sir William James Bull, MP (1863-1931), who was created a Baronet in 1922, and his wife Lillian Hester Brandon, Anthony Bull was educated at Gresham's School, Holt (1922-1926), and Magdalene College, Cambridge (1926-1929). He gained the Cambridge degree of MA in 1933.
Bull was the third of four brothers. The eldest, Sir Stephen John Bull, 2nd Baronet (1904-1942), was killed on active service in Java, East Indies. The next, Sir George Bull, 3rd Baronet (1906-1986) inherited the title, which passed to his son, Anthony Bull's nephew, Sir Simeon Bull, 4th Baronet (born 1934).
After Cambridge, he joined London Transport.
At the outbreak of World War II, Bull joined the Transportation Branch of the War Office, then was commissioned as a lieutenant-colonel into the Royal Engineers. He went to Africa to work on the Afloc Plan, a logistical scheme...
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