Henry Ernest Gascoyne Bulwer


Sir Henry Ernest Gascoyne Bulwer, , the nephew of Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer and brother to Edward Earle Gascoyne Bulwer, was a British colonial administrator and diplomat.
Bulwer was educated at Charterhouse School and Trinity College, Cambridge. Administrative and diplomatic posts held include:
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.

Commemoration

The town of Bulwer in Natal, South Africa was named after him.
While Governor of Labuan he presented the type specimen of Bulwer's pheasant to the British Museum, a bird consequently named after him.
The author H Rider Haggard dedicated his novel Marie to Sir Henry Bulwer.