Frederick Bullock (Royal Navy officer)
Admiral Frederick Bullock (1788 – 6 February 1874) was a Royal Navy officer noted for his work as a surveyor, particularly in the Thames Estuary. Bullock entered the Navy on 28 November 1804, serving in under Captains Moore and Rodd in the English Channel. From 1808 he was with in the Mediterranean. He was promoted to Lieutenant on 22 January 1812. Bullock's first command was HMS Snap, from 1823, surveying the coast of Newfoundland, determining the precise positions of the many headlands that had been well charted by James Cook, but without the aid of chronometers. He then commanded from 1827 to 1828, surveying in the River Thames. He was promoted to commander in 1829, and served on the yacht William and Mary, on HMS Boxer, and HMS Fearless. He became a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 1830. As commander of Fearless, Bullock was part of the squadron that accompanied Queen Victoria to and from Woolwich on her 1842 visit to Scotland. Bullock is best-remembered for his surveying of the River Thames and its estuary. A letter from Bullock to Parry, Hydrographer of the Navy in 1828 proposing a detailed survey was rebuffed, but when Francis Beaufort became