Background
The son of Sir Christopher Puller and his wife Louise King, he was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford.
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Christopher Puller
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A college friend of West. East. Gladstone, he graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1828, and Master of Arts
Career
In 1832. He was called to the bar at Lincoln"s Inn in 1832, and went into practice as a chancery barrister. He resided at Youngsbury. He was a Liberal who took an interest in the church rate debates of 1858 to 1861.
He was also regarded as an expert on the education issue.
Giles Puller was in 1858 a secretary of the India Missions Extension of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. He had been on the Standing Committee of the Society from 1850.
He died on 16 February 1864 at Youngsbury. A memorial window was created in Street Mary"s Church, Standon, Hertfordshire.
The High Cross Puller Memorial primary school was built by the family to his memory.
Puller married Emily Blake, daughter of William Blake, on 2 July 1831. Their children included:
Arthur Giles (born 1833), the eldest son. Charles (born 1834), the second son, who was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and vicar of Standon, Hertfordshire.
Christopher Cholmeley (1839–1902), Treasury clerk.
Frederick William (1842–1938), fourth son, a clergyman who joined the Society of Street John the Evangelist. Mary Caroline, who married John Garnier (1838–1929), son of Thomas Garnier.
Membership
At the 1857 general election, Puller became Member of Parliament for Hertfordshire. And he was re-elected in 1859. His replacement as Member of Parliament was Henry Edward Surtees.
