[1] The family lived at 6 Waterloo Place at the east end of Princes Street.

[4] In 1884, Cullen joined the company of J & F Adam[1] as a writer to the signet,[3] a specialist form of solicitor.

[3] In July 1906, he was appointed as Sheriff of Fife and Kinross, replacing the deceased Robert Younger KC.

[8] An unflamboyant judge who disliked public speaking and avoided ceremonies where possible,[1] Cullen was promoted in 1918 to the Inner House, where he sat in the Valuation Appeal Court.

[1] He is buried in Dean Cemetery in western Edinburgh beneath a simple white cross in the south-west section (to the north of the huge Buchanan monument).