John Bull John Bull John Bull is a national personification of the United Kingdom in general and England in particular, especially in political cartoons and similar graphic works. He is usually depicted as a stout, middle-aged, country dwelling, jolly, matter-of-fact man. John Bull originated as a satirical character created by Dr John Arbuthnot, a friend of Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope. Bull first appeared in 1712 in Arbuthnot's pamphlet "Law is a Bottomless Pit". The same year Arbuthnot published a four-part political narrative "The History of John Bull". In this satirical treatment of the War of the Spanish Succession John Bull brings
John Arbuthnot (agriculturist) a London banker with Grasshopper banking house, and also niece of Archbishop George Stone (1708–1764) of Armagh, the Primate of Ireland, son of Andrew Stone. Anne Stone's brother was Andrew Stone (1703–1773), under secretary of state 1748. The couple had ten children: On 10 June 1789, Arbuthnot married his fourth wife, being her second husband, Helen O'Halloran Fitzgerald (?): they had no children. In 1791, he then married his fifth wife, Anne Elizabeth Heard (?), and they too had no children. John Arbuthnot (agriculturist) John Arbuthnot FRS (c.1729 – 27 December 1797) was a British agriculturist, the Inspector General of