Bartle Bull

Bartle Breese Bull or Bartle Bull III (born 1970) is an American businessman and writer. Bull is a former editor of the Middle East Monitor and foreign editor of Prospect, a leading London-based political and cultural magazine. Early life Bull is the son of Bartle Bull and Belinda Lawrence Breese. His father is an author, former newspaper and magazine publisher, and lawyer who graduated from Harvard College, where he was an editor of The Harvard Crimson, Harvard University Law School and studied at Magdalen College, Oxford. His father was the New York City coordinator of N.Y. Citizens for Kennedy in 1968, organized New York State's Democrats for McCain in 2008, Democrats for Gibson in New York's 19th Congressional District in 2016, and served on the boards of the Fulbright Scholarship Program and the Initiative to Educate Afghan Women. Bull is the grandson of Rosemary (née Baur) and Bartle Bull (1902–1950), a Canadian-born British barrister and Conservative Party politician. His mother was the daughter of William Lawrence Breese Jr. (1909–2000), founder and chairman of the Longview Foundation for Education in World Affairs and International Understanding, great-granddaughter of U.S. Representative Hamilton Fish II and the great-great granddaughter of Hamilton Fish (1808–1893), the United States Secretary of State from 1869 to 1877. In 1776 Bull's quadruple-great-grandfather, Nicholas Fish, became, serving at the age of eighteen in the 2nd New York Regiment, the youngest Major in the Continental Army. Since then, Bull's ancestors and relatives have served New York State in many offices, from Senator to Congressman to Governor. Bull's great-grandmother, Bertha Baur, served as National Republican Committeewoman for Illinois from 1928-1952, was one of the first women in the United States to run for Congress (twice in the 1930s), and hosted the 1952 GOP National Convention in Chicago.