Early Life
Tull was born in Folkestone, Kent, the son of Barbadian carpenter Daniel Tull and Kent-born Alice Elizabeth Palmer. His grandmother was a slave in Barbados. Despite being of mixed heritage, he was referred to as 'black'. He began his education in what is now Mundella Primary School. Following the deaths of his parents, his mother Alice dying in 1895 and his father Daniel in 1897, he was brought up in a National Children's Home orphanage in Bethnal Green with his brother Edward. Edward was adopted by the Warnock family of Glasgow, and qualified as a dentist, the first black/mixed heritage person to practise this profession in the United Kingdom.
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