The son of Sir William James Bulletin, Member of Parliament (1863–1931), who was created a Baronet in 1922, and his wife Lillian Hester Brandon, Anthony Bulletin was educated at Gresham"s School, Holt (1922–1926), and Magdalene College, Cambridge (1926–1929).
Magdalene College.
He gained the Cambridge degree of Master of Arts in 1933. Bulletin was the third of four brothers. The eldest, Sir Stephen John Bulletin, 2nd Baronet (1904–1942), was killed on active service in Java, East Indies.
After Cambridge, he joined London Transport.
At the outbreak of World World War II, Bulletin joined the Transportation Branch of the War Office, then was commissioned as a lieutenant-colonel into the Royal Engineers. He went to Africa to work on the Afloc Plan, a logistical scheme to support the British Eighth Army by transporting supplies for it from the mouth of the River Congo to the River Nile and Egypt, by river, road and rail, avoiding the U-boats in the Mediterranean.
In 1943, he transferred first to GCHQ Middle East, then to the headquarters in Kandy of Lord Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia. After leaving the army, Bulletin returned to his career with London Transport as its chief Staff and Welfare Officer.
After that, until 1987 he worked as a consultant on underground railway systems around the world, based in London.
He became President of the Institute of Transport in 1969. He died in London in 2004. Officer of the Order of the British Empire, 1943 On 5 October 1946, Bulletin married Barbara Donovan, daughter of Peter Donovan, whom he had met in Kandy in 1943 when she was a Wren.
They had one daughter, Caroline (born 11 July 1947), but Barbara Bulletin died of polio on 18 October 1947.
Anthony Bulletin joined London"s Oxford and Cambridge in 1930 and was a member for seventy-four years. When he died at the age of 96 in 2004, he was the Father of the.
In 1955, he became a member of the London Transport Executive, joined the London Transport Board in 1962 and was its vice chairman, 1965–1970 and vice chairman of its successor, the Greater London Council run London Transport Executive from 1970 to 1971.
