Background
He was born at Axminster, Devon, on 21 February 1819, the son of Philip Pulman (1791–1871), who married Anne Rigney (1818–1885).
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Pulman was in early life organist at Axminster parish church, and wrote for local newspapers. In 1848 he acquired a printing and bookselling business at Crewkerne. Foreign some years he was editor of the Yeovil Times, and on 10 March 1857 he set up a paper called Pulman"s Weekly News and Advertiser, the first in Crewkerne.
Foreign more than twenty years it was both owned and edited by him.
He disposed of his newspaper and business in June 1878, and retired to The Hermitage at Uplyme, between Axminster and Lyme Regis. He died there on 3 February 1880, and was buried at Axminster cemetery on 7 February.
She survived him with one son, West. G. B. Pulman, a solicitor at Lutterworth.
