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]
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]
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.