William Henry Lytton Earle Bulwer, Baron Dalling and Bulwer
Bulwer, William Henry Lytton Earle, Baron Dalling and Bulwer
(bŏlˈwər; lĭtˈən) [key], 1801–72, English diplomat and author;
brother of the novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton. He was known most
of his life as Sir Henry Bulwer. Although he sat in Parliament
for some years (1830–37, 1868–71), he was most prominent as a
diplomat. As secretary of the embassy in Constantinople
(1837–38) he secured a commercial treaty with Turkey. He was
ambassador to Spain (1843–48) during the affair of the Spanish
Marriages (see Isabella II) but was ordered to leave by the
dictator Ramón Narváez, whom he offended. As minister to
Washington (1849–52), he concluded the important Clayton-Bulwer
Treaty of 1850. Among his later diplomatic posts were Florence,
Bucharest, and, again, Constantinople (1858–65). He was created
a baron in 1871. His writings include An Autumn in Greece
(1826), France: Social, Literary, and Political (1834–36),
Historical Characters (1867), and biographies