William Bulkeley was a Liverpool merchant, son of Thomas Bulkeley of Anglesey, who financed voyages for slave-trading, privateering, and the Greenland whale fishery. He was apprenticed to Foster Cunliffe, a merchant of Liverpool, in 1731. By 1750 he was prosperous enough to be one of the first pew-holders of St Thomas's Church, Liverpool.
- Occupation
- whaler, privateer
