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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]
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.
References
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"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 11 July 2018.
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^ Lee-Warner, William (1912).
"Bulwer, Edward Earle Gascoyne" . In
Lee, Sidney (ed.).
Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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a
b
c
Archives Hub: Administrative/Biographical History of Sir Henry Ernest G. Bulwer[
permanent dead link] Accessed 18 November 2008
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"Bulwer, Henry Ernest [Gascoyne] Lytton (BLWR855HE)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
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a
b Laband, John (2009).
Historical Dictionary of the Zulu Wars. Scarecrow Press. p. 22.
ISBN
978-0-8108-6300-2.
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^ Smith, Keith (2014).
Dead Was Everything: Studies in the Anglo-Zulu War. Frontline Books. pp. 270–.
ISBN
978-1-84832-731-3.
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^ 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.
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^
"No. 26935".
The London Gazette. 4 February 1898. p. 673.
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^ Raper, P. E. (1989).
Dictionary of Southern African Place Names. Jonathan Ball Publishers. p. 99.
ISBN
978-0-947464-04-2 – via
Internet Archive.
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^ 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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