Henry Ernest Gascoyne Bulwer

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]

↑ "Sir Henry Ernest Gascoyne (Gascoigne) Bulwer (77), governor of Natal after whom the town Bulwer was named, dies in Norfolk, Eng". South African History Online. 23 August 2012. Retrieved 2018-07-11.
↑ Lee-Warner, William (1912). "Bulwer, Edward Earle Gascoyne". In Lee, Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
1 2 3 Archives Hub: Administrative/Biographical History of Sir Henry Ernest G. Bulwer Accessed 18 November 2008
↑ "Bulwer, Henry Ernest [Gascoyne] Lytton (BLWR855HE)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
1 2 Laband, John (2009). Historical Dictionary of the Zulu Wars. Scarecrow Press. p. 22. ISBN 978-0-8108-6300-2.
↑ Smith, Keith (2014). Dead Was Everything: Studies in the Anglo-Zulu War. Frontline Books. pp. 270–. ISBN 978-1-84832-731-3.
↑ Morgan, Tabitha (2010). Sweet and Bitter Island: A History of the British in Cyprus. I.B.Tauris. pp. 13–. ISBN 978-0-85773-102-9.
↑ "No. 26935". The London Gazette. 4 February 1898. p. 673.
↑ Raper, P. E. (1989). Dictionary of Southern African Place Names. Jonathan Ball Publishers. p. 99. ISBN 978-0-947464-04-2 – via Internet Archive.
↑ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2014). The Eponym Dictionary of Birds. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 214–. ISBN 978-1-4729-0574-1.

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