Bullingdon is an ancient hundred in the sounth-east of the county of Oxfordshire. The word hundred can mean: The word form of the number 100 Hundred (division) Hundred (word) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon, from the Latinised form Oxonia) is a county in south-east England, bordering on Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, and Warwickshire. ...
The hundred used to include villages such as Cuddesdon, Garsington, the Baldons and Milton. However, the hundred was changed by the nineteenth century to conform more regularly with coucil wards and today it covers the area of several ancient hundreds, occupying most of south-central Oxon.
The primary use of the hundred area today is for census data. Beyond this, the distinction bears little contemporary importance and is little-known popularly.
The Bullingdon Club is a socially-exclusive student dining society at Oxford University, without any permanent rooms, famous for its members' wealth and destructive binges.
The Bullingdon Club traditionally meets for an annual breakfast at the Bullingdon point to point and a Club dinner in addition to smaller initiation dinners prior to which the rooms of new members are wrecked.
The Bullingdon is satirised (as are similar student dining societies) in Evelyn Waugh 's novel Decline and Fall (1928), where it has a pivotal role in the plot: the mild-mannered hero gets the blame for the "Bollinger Club"'s destructive rampage through his college and is sent down (expelled).
The scene when he attacks Bullingdon during the recital is such a total release of aggression that I have trouble finding a more viscerally satisfying fight scene anywhere in the history of cinema.
Bullingdon's smashing of protocol in the later half of the film resembles Barry's smashing of protocol in the first part (the breaking of the wine-glass, "Here's my toast to ye, Captain John Quin," etc.).
Bullingdon (superbly reaslised by Leon Vitali) reveals himself the opposite of what he and his society pretend he is: a nobleman -- while Barry's act of largess in firing into the ground is perhaps the most significantly & sincerely mature act we ever witness of him -- answered by Bullingdon without mercy or gratitude.
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