Paternal Family Tree: Buller
Maternal Family Tree: Elizabeth Long
On 5th October 1831 [his father] James Wentworth Buller (age 33) and [his mother] Charlotte Juliana Jane Howard-Molyneux-Howard (age 22) were married.
On 7th December 1839 General Redvers Henry Buller VC was born to James Wentworth Buller (age 41) and Charlotte Juliana Jane Howard-Molyneux-Howard (age 30) in Downes Crediton, Devon.
On 15th December 1855 [his mother] Charlotte Juliana Jane Howard-Molyneux-Howard (age 46) died.
On 13th March 1865 [his father] James Wentworth Buller (age 66) died.
Before 28th July 1880 Greville Theophilus Howard (age 43) and [his future wife] Audrey Jane Charlotte Townshend (age 54) were married. She the daughter of John Townshend 4th Marquess Townshend and Elizabeth Jane Stuart. He the son of Charles Howard 17th Earl Suffolk 10th Earl Berkshire and [his aunt] Isabella Catherine Mary Howard-Molyneux-Howard Countess Suffolk and Berkshire (age 73).
In 1882 General Redvers Henry Buller VC (age 42) and Audrey Jane Charlotte Townshend (age 56) were married. She the daughter of John Townshend 4th Marquess Townshend and Elizabeth Jane Stuart.
On 6th October 1899 [his brother-in-law] John Villiers Stuart Townshend 5th Marquess Townshend (age 68) died at his home in Laverstock, Wiltshire [Map]. His son John (age 32) succeeded 6th Marquess Townshend, 9th Viscount Townsend, 9th Baron Townshend of Lynn Regis in Norfolk, 11th Baronet Townshend.
Between 20th January 1900 and 24th January 1900 General Buller (age 60) with 30,000 men under his command attempted to capture Scion Kop hill as a step towards relieving Ladysmith. On the night of 23 January in heavy mist the British launched an attack on what they thought was Spion Kop, but it turned out to be a smaller mound some 500 m from the main peak. The following day there was bloody fighting as the British tried to force their way to the top of the main peak. By nightfall both sides thought that the other had taken the hill, so they abandoned their positions and it was only once a Boer scout realised the situation that the Boers retook the hill and the British withdrew back across the Tugela.
John Spencer Cavendish (age 24) was present.
Between 5th February 1900 and 7th February 1900 the Battle of Val Kranz General Buller (age 60) attempted, unsuccessfully, to force a bridgehead across the Tugela River.
John Spencer Cavendish (age 24) was present.
Between 14th February 1900 and 27th February 1900 the Battle of Tugela Heights aks Pieters Hill was a series of military actions in which General Buller's (age 60) British army forced Louis Botha's Boer army to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
John Spencer Cavendish (age 24) was present.
On 2nd June 1908 General Redvers Henry Buller VC (age 68) died at Downes House Downes Crediton, Devon. He was buried in the Church of the Holy Cross Crediton, Devon [Map]. Memorial in Winchester Cathedral [Map] sculpted by Bertram Mackennal (age 44).
In 1926 [his former wife] Audrey Jane Charlotte Townshend died.
Kings Wessex: Great x 22 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 19 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 25 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 20 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings England: Great x 13 Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 21 Grand Son of King Duncan I of Scotland
Kings Franks: Great x 19 Grand Son of Louis VII King Franks
Kings France: Great x 18 Grand Son of Philip V King France I King Navarre
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 27 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Buller
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Francis Buller
Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Pollexfen
Great x 2 Grandfather: James Buller 13 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Bishop Jonathan Trelawny 3rd Baronet 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Rebecca Trelawny 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: James Buller 14 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Gould of Downes in Devon
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Gould
GrandFather: James Buller 15 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Father: James Wentworth Buller 15 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Buller
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Francis Buller
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Pollexfen of Nutwell in Woodbury in Devon
Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary Pollexfen
Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Duncombe
Great x 1 Grandfather: Bishop William Buller 13 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Jonathan Trelawny 2nd Baronet 13 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Bishop Jonathan Trelawny 3rd Baronet 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Seymour 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Rebecca Trelawny 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
GrandMother: Ann Buller 14 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Bishop John Thomas
Great x 1 Grandmother: Anne Thomas
General Redvers Henry Buller VC 13 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Howard 15th or 22nd Earl of Arundel 5th Earl of Surrey 2nd Earl Norfolk 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Bernard Howard 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Stewart Countess Arundel and Norfolk 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Bernard Howard 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: George Tattershall
Great x 3 Grandmother: Catherine Tattershall
Great x 1 Grandfather: Henry Howard 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Christopher Roper 4th Baron Teynham 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Christopher Roper 5th Baron Teynham 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Anne Roper 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Francis Browne 3rd Viscount Montagu 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Browne Baroness Teynham 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Somerset Viscountess Montague 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
GrandFather: Henry Howard-Molyneux-Howard 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Molyneux 3rd Baronet 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Francis Molyneux 4th Baron Teverall 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Lucy Rigby Lady Molyneux
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Molyneux 6th Baronet 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Julia Molyneux 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Mother: Charlotte Juliana Jane Howard-Molyneux-Howard 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Edward Long
GrandMother: Elizabeth Long