Conservative MP for Hammersmith / Hammersmith South, 1900-29. William James Bull was the son of Henry Bull, a solicitor. He sat on the committees for the repairs to the Palace of Westminster, and for what would eventually become the Channel Tunnel. Knighted in 1905.
Around 1911 Bull became involved in gun-running for the Ulster Volunteer Force (a pro-union group) in partnership with his brother-in-law. Police seized over four thousand rifles in a 1913 Hammersmith raid, under the Gun Barrel Proof Act 1868. That information comes from Wikipedia where there is no information about any conviction or penalty imposed on Bull.
He supported the votes for women campaign but seemed to want that to be limited to women over 40.
Acquired the statue of a bull from the Holborn Black Bull Inn and attached it to the front of his offices in Hammersmith.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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