John Bull the past Navy blue, but more recently with the Union Jack colours). Britannia, or a lion, is sometimes used as an alternative in some editorial cartoons. As a literary figure, John Bull is well-intentioned, frustrated, full of common sense, and entirely of native country stock. Unlike Uncle Sam later, he is not a figure of authority but rather a yeoman who prefers his small beer and domestic peace, possessed of neither patriarchal power nor heroic defiance. John Arbuthnot provided him with a sister named Peg (Scotland), and a traditional adversary in Louis Baboon (the House of Bourbon in France). Peg
John Bull (businessman) his daughters, Dorothy married John Lenham while Kitty (1732–1805) married the Reverend Charles Smith (1729–1803), the rector of West Stoke in Sussex, who was brother of William Smith, Treasurer of the Ordnance and uncle of both the Venerable Charles Webber, Archdeacon of Chichester, and the Reverend James Webber, Dean of Ripon. John Bull (businessman) Sir John Bull (1672–1742) was a prominent businessman in the City of London trading with the Levant, who served as Sheriff of London. Born about 1672, he was the youngest son of John Bull (1631–1715), a London businessman from Newport, Isle of Wight who was a