He was educated at Gresham's School, Holt and New College, Oxford.
[2] Bull was admitted a solicitor in 1928, and in 1934 had offices at 3, Stone Buildings, Lincoln's Inn.
[3] He was honorary solicitor to the Royal Life Saving Society, the Royal Society of St George, and the League of Mercy, Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Mercers of the City of London, Governor of the Upper Latymer Foundation School, Vice-Chairman of South Hammersmith Conservative Association and a member of the Board of Management of the West London Hospital.
[2] During the Second World War, Bull served with the Royal Air Force in the Far East.
He was commissioned as a Pilot officer on 11 October 1940[4] and was killed at the Fall of Java in March 1942, during the Japanese offensives in the Dutch East Indies.