Editing Redvers Buller (section)

==Origins==
[[File:BullerArms.PNG|thumb|200px|Arms of Buller: ''Sable, on a cross argent quarter pierced of the field four eagles displayed of the first''{{sfn|Pirie-Gordon|1937|p=279}}]]
[[File:DownesCreditonByJohnSwete1797.JPG|thumb|"Downes, seat of James Buller Esq", watercolour by Rev. [[John Swete]], dated 1797]]

Buller was the second son and eventual heir of [[James Wentworth Buller]] (1798–1865), MP for Exeter, by his wife Charlotte Juliana Jane Howard-Molyneux-Howard (d.1855), third daughter of [[Lord Henry Thomas Howard-Molyneux-Howard]], Deputy [[Earl Marshal]] and younger brother of [[Bernard Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk]]. Redvers Buller was born on 7 December 1839 at the family estate of [[Downes, Crediton|Downes]], near Crediton in Devon, inherited by his great-grandfather James Buller (1740–1772) from his mother Elizabeth Gould, the wife of [[James Buller (the younger)|James Buller]] (1717–1765), MP.{{sfn|Pirie-Gordon|1937|p=279}}

The Bullers were an old Cornish family, long seated at [[Morval, Cornwall|Morval]] in Cornwall until their removal to Downes. The family estates, including Downes, inherited in 1874 by Redvers Buller from his unmarried elder brother James Howard Buller (1835–1874){{sfn|Pirie-Gordon|1937|p=278}} included {{convert|2942|acre|ha|disp=flip}} of Devon and {{convert|2174|acre|ha|disp=flip}} of Cornwall, which in 1876 produced an income of £14,137 a year.{{sfn|Bateman|1883|p=66}}