Bulman, O. M. B. (Oliver Meredith Boone), 1902-1974

Oliver Bulman was born 20th May 1902 in Wandsworth, the second of three children born to Henry Herbert Bulman, an artist and his wife Beatrice Elizabeth Boone. His younger sister Joan C. Bulman gained a first class honours degree in Swedish from Cambridge University, later becoming a specialist in Swedish literature, whilst his elder brother Micheal W.B Bulman became a distinguished gynaecologist and served Norwich as its lord Mayor in 1959-60, as well as being involved in the founding of the University of East Anglia.

After attending Battersea Grammar School in 1910, evening classes at Chelsea polytechnic in 1920-1921, University College London 1922-1923, and the Imperial College of Science and Technology 1925-1926, Oliver arrived at Sidney Sussex College to study dendroid graptolites with Miss Gertrude L. Elles at the Sedgwick Museum. His work on dendroid graptolies earned him a Cambridge Ph.D degree which was additional to the Ph.D he obtained in London for his work on Shineton Shales.

...