Henry Ernest Gascoyne Bulwer

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Sir Henry Ernest Gascoyne Bulwer, GCMG (11 December 1836 – 30 September 1914^[1]), the nephew of Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer and brother to Edward Earle Gascoyne Bulwer, was a British colonial administrator and diplomat.^[2]^[3]

Bulwer was educated at Charterhouse School and Trinity College, Cambridge.^[4] Administrative and diplomatic posts held include:^[3]

1860–1864 – British Resident in Kythira in the Ionian Islands under the Lord High Commissioner, Sir Henry Knight Storks.
1865 – Secretary to his uncle, the British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire in Constantinople.
1866 – Receiver-General of Trinidad.
1867–1869 – Administrator of the Government of Dominica.
1871–1875 – Governor of Labuan and Consular-General in Borneo
1875–1880 – Lieutenant Governor of the Colony of Natal.^[5]^[6]
1882–1885 – Governor of the Colony of Natal and Special Commissioner for Zulu Affairs.^[5]
1886–1892 – High Commissioner in Cyprus.^[7]

Bulwer was appointed to the Order of St Michael and St George, as Companion in 1864, Knight Commander in 1874, and as Knight Grand Cross in 1883.^[8]

Commemoration

The town of Bulwer in Natal, South Africa was named after him.^[9]

While Governor of Labuan he presented the type specimen of Bulwer's pheasant (Lophura bulweri) to the British Museum, a bird consequently named after him.^[10]^[3]

The author H Rider Haggard dedicated his novel Marie to Sir Henry Bulwer.

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