Born at Putney on May 2nd, 1854, the son of John Bullar, of Basset Wood, Southampton. He was a pupil of C Scott, of East Molesey, Surrey, and matriculated from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1872, having been admitted a pensioner on October 12th in that year. He obtained a first class in the Natural Science Tripos in 1875, but did not graduate BA until 1877. He acted as Demonstrator of Comparative Anatomy at Cambridge, and took the MA and MB degrees together in 1883. He received his medical education at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he acted as House Physician to Dr James Andrew and as Ophthalmic House Surgeon to Henry Power (qv) and Bowater J Vernon (qv). Whilst he was Ophthalmic House Surgeon he invented what afterwards became known as 'Bullar's shield' by the simple process of luting a watch-glass over the unaffected eye by means of diachylon plaster to protect it in cases of gonococcal inflammation. He acted for a few months as Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and then determined to devote himself to ophthalmic surgery. He settled in Southampton, where his uncles Dr John and Dr William Bullar had practised, and founded in 1889 the Southampton Free Eye Hospital, to which he was appointed first Surgeon and afterwards Consulting Surgeon. He was also Consulting Surgeon to the Royal Hants County Hospital, Winchester, and a Trustee of the Royal South Hants and Southampton Hospital which his uncles had founded in 1838. During the European War he acted as ophthalmic specialist with the rank of Captain RAMC (T). Failing sight caused him to retire to Houmet Du Nord, L'Islet, Guernsey, where he became Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Guernsey Victoria Hospital and occupied himself in breeding pedigree goats. He married but had no children. He and his wife were drowned when a seaplane in which he was travelling from Corsica to the mainland turned turtle in the harbour at Antibes on January 24th, 1929. Bullar was of a genial and loyal disposition: absolutely honest, he exercised an influence for good over all with whom he was brought in contact. Having means in excess of his wants, he never used to the full his natural attainments, which were great.