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George Arthur Hardy Bullock-Douglas (4 June 1911 – 25 June 1958) was a
New Zealand rugby union player. A wing three-quarter, Bullock-Douglas
represented Wanganui at a provincial level, and was a member of the New
Zealand national side, the All Blacks, from 1932 to 1934. He played 15
matches for the All Blacks including five internationals.
His
father George Bullock was a foundation member and the first secretary of
the Kaierau club in Wanganui and an uncle played for both Taranaki and
Wanganui.
Bullock-Douglas was educated first at Gonville School.
He then had a stint at Auckland Grammar School and lastly, Wanganui
Collegiate School where he was a member of the 1st XV in his two years
at the school between 1927 and 1928. He was also a member of the
school's 1st XI cricket team. He later played representative cricket for
Wanganui, and appeared in a match for Wanganui against the MCC on their
1935–36 tour of New Zealand. In that match, Bullock-Douglas batted at
number 7 or 8, and scored 14 and 0 respectively in his two innings.
A bank officer, Bullock-Douglas was awarded a Diploma in Banking by
Victoria University College in 1934. During World War II he served as an
officer with the 21st Battalion of the New Zealand Military Forces,
reaching the rank of captain. He saw active service in Greece and North
Africa, and was twice wounded: in Greece in 1941, and Libya in 1943.
Mrs. A. Bullock-Douglas, Box 398, Wellington (wife) Was listed as
next of kin on his embarkation
Also buried at Heads Road Cemetery, Whanganui, New Zealand:
Margaret, Widow of the late George Bullock, of Auckland, Died 17th June
1903;(1)
Also, William James, their Son, Died 7th April 1892, Aged 17
Years
Notes:
1. Possible
grandmother? Margaret Carson, Journalist,
writer, feminist, social reformer and suffragetist, was born in
Auckland, New Zealand, on 4 January 1845, the only daughter of four
children born to Jane Kennedy and her husband, James Carson, a road
maker. The Carsons had emigrated from Scotland; James Carson later
worked as a carpenter and possibly a debt collector in Auckland.
Nothing is known of Margaret's early life. On 10 February 1869 at
Auckland she married George Bullock, a warehouseman. The couple were to
have five sons, including William (died 1892). On or about 17 March 1877, George Bullock died when the
ship he was travelling on, the May Queen, was lost in a hurricane near
Tonga. Margaret Bullock was left a widow with five children who were
still 'mere babies'. Sometime in the late 1870s she took her family to Whanganui, where her eldest brother,
Gilbert Carson, owned and edited the Wanganui Chronicle. Margaret
Bullock joined him as a reporter, assistant editor and business
associate for the next 10 years.
Margaret Bullock was
plagued with continual ill-health after she settled in Whanganui. She
was diagnosed with cancer and died on 17 June 1903 soon after an
operation.
2. Why George has the surname Bullock-Douglas
has yet to be discovered.
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