Bulwer

Bulwer, William Henry Lytton Earle. Lord Dalling and Bulwer, statesman, an elder brother of Lord Lytton, was born in 1801 in London. Educated at Harrow and Cambridge, he in 1827 entered the diplomatic service, and in 1830 became a member of Parliament as a radical reformer. After being secretary of embassy at Constantinople and Paris, he was from 1842 to 1848 minister plenipotentiary at Madrid, and 1849 at Washington, where he negotiated the well-known Clayton-Bulwer treaty relating to the communication between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans by ship canal. He held other diplomatic appointments, among them English ambassador to the Porte, and on returning to England he in 1868 re-entered Parliament. In 1871 he was raised to the peerage, and in the following year he died at Naples. There being no issue, the title became extinct. Among his writings were An Ode to Napoleon, An Autumn in Greece, Life of Byron, Historical Characters, and Life of Palmerston.