Eric Edward Bullus
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Sir Eric Bullus |
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| Member of the United Kingdom Parliament for Wembley North |
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| Preceded by | Charles Hobson |
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| Born | 20 November 1906 Peterborough, England |
| Died | 31 August 2001 (aged 94) |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
Sir Eric Edward Bullus (20 November 1906 – 31 August 2001) was a British Conservative politician. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Wembley North from 1950 until the constituency was abolished by boundary changes for the February 1974 general election.
Although Bullus was born in Peterborough, his mother's home town, he grew up in Leeds. He was educated at Leeds Modern School and the University of Leeds.
At the age of twenty, Bullus joined the right-of-centre newspaper the Yorkshire Post, for which he wrote for more than twenty years. He also joined the Junior Imperial League, the youth wing of the Conservative Party. He was elected to Leeds City Council in 1930. Five years later he became the Tory whip; he also held the chair of the Libraries and Arts Committee, founding a series of lunchtime concerts.
When the Second World War began, Bullus was thirty-three years old. Too old for active service, in August 1940 he was commissioned as a pilot officer in the Royal Air Force (RAF) Volunteer Reserve. He served at the Air Ministry until 1943, when he was promoted to the rank of flight lieutenant and transferred to southeast Asia to join Lord Mountbatten's staff. Despite eventually reaching the rank of wing commander, he never flew a plane, and was demobilised in December 1945.
Bullus was elected to the House of Commons in 1950 as MP for the constituency of Wembley North. He introduced the Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill, which aimed to reinstate flogging as a punishment for violent and armed robbery (a punishment that had been abolished by the Criminal Justice Act 1948), as well as for wounding and rape, in 1952, and it was debated in early 1953. After the Home Secretary expressed opposition, the second reading of the bill was defeated in a free vote by a majority of 96. Bullus became the secretary of the Conservative backbenchers' 1922 Committee in 1953, and later served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to several ministers.
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