Born: Jan­u­a­ry 12, 1797, Pritt­well, 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. Bullock’s works in­clude:

• Practical Lectures upon the His­to­ry of Jo­seph and His Breth­ren, 1826
• Songs of the Church (Hal­i­fax, No­va Sco­tia: 1854)

Bullock’s 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.

Sources

Hymns

1. In Grief and Fear, to Thee, O Lord
2. We Love the Place, O God