John Crocker Bulteel

[1] He was the son and heir of John II Bulteel (1763–1837) of Flete in the parish of Holbeton and of Lyneham in the parish of Yealmpton, Devon, by his wife Elizabeth Perring (d.1835), whose monument survives in the chancel of All Saints Church, Holbeton,[2] daughter of Thomas Perring (1732–1791), a merchant of Modbury in Devon and of London.

[5] His earliest recorded ancestor in England was Samuel Bulteel (d.1682) of Tavistock in Devon, a Huguenot refugee from France, whose son was James Bulteel (1676–1757) of Tavistock, MP for Tavistock 1703-8 and 1711–15,[6] who married Mary Crocker, daughter and heiress of Courtenay Crocker (d.1740), MP, of Lyneham in the parish of Yealmpton, Devon, the last male of the senior branch of the ancient Crocker family.

[9] He attended Plympton Grammar School in Devon (where Sir Joshua Reynolds had been educated) and where a fellow-pupil was Jack Russell (1795–1883), later the famous hunting parson.

A six-verse poem on the subject of Bulteel, in the style of Sir Walter Scott's The Young Lochinvar[14] was published in 1828 in the Sporting Magazine, of which the first verse was as follows:[15][16] Oh the young Squire of Fleet is come into the West From the packs of the Kingdom his drafts are the best Save Jack Square and Dick Ellis attendants he's none He feeds them himself and he hunts them alone If he keeps to his point and he stands on his feet, There'll be never a man like the young Squire of Fleet.

These are said to refer to the two principal types of allegorical beasts denoting stock market speculators, the bull and bear.