3n noemoriam. 



H. G. BULL, M.D 



The Transactions for the year 1885 would be singularly incomplete without 

 something more than a mere passing notice of the great and lamentable loss 

 which the Woolhope Club has sustained by the death of Dr. Bull— without indeed 

 the most sincere expression of its deep regret, and payment of the full tribute 

 of its affectionate remembrance. The disorder which, unsuspected until a few 

 short weeks before its fatal termination, removed our old and well-tried friend 

 from amongst us on the 31st of October, has inflicted that loss indeed, not only on 

 the Woolhope Club, but on the City in which for so many years he was prominent 

 in every good work, and on a still wider circle of attached friends both in 

 Herefordshire and throughout the whole country. And it is a loss which it 

 will be very difficult, if not impossible, to repair. 



A native of Northamptonshire, Dr. Bull came to Hereford in 1841, and 

 established himself in practice there a.s a physician very shortly after the close 

 of his medical education in Paris and at the University of Edinburgh. This is 

 perhaps hardly the place in which to say much of the general and grateful 

 estimation accorded to him in his professional capacity. The remark however 

 may be allowed that such estimation owed its origin scarcely more to the skill 

 with which he exercised his profession, or to his assiduous attention to its duties, 

 than to the sympathy of his nature, the charm of his cheerful, kindly, manner, 

 and very markedly to his abundant charity towards the suffering poor. 



It is rather as a public man, if one would (as indeed m any memoir of him, 

 however brief, one ought to) go beyond the thought of his connexion with our 

 Club, that he claims our first notice. 



Primarily probably in this respect he \vill be remembered by his 21 years' 

 services to the General Intinnary, the staff of which he joined in 1864. Nor were 

 these services marked only by his punctual attendances, and the careful interest 

 which he took in the patients that came under his hands ; but the arrangement of 

 the house itself, and the laying out of the grounds around it, remain to attest how 

 even minor details of what might conduce to the welfare of that noble institution 

 occupied his mind. He had become connected with the Dispensary at a much 

 earlier period, in 1842, and as he recognised how it might be made subservient to 

 the moral as well as to the physical well-being of the poor, it was to his action 

 that the foundation of the Provident Branch of that Charity was due. 



The improvement indeed of his fellow citizens in every way, especially of 

 those who were dependent upon the help of others for the means of such im- 

 provement, was one of the main objects of his life. Hence the Herefordshire 



