669 Sir Henry Bulwer

Constituency : Wilton  1830-1. Coventry  1831-5, Marylebone  1835-7, Tamworth  1868-71

Henry  took  the  second  seat  at  Tamworth  held  by  the  Tories  since  a  by-election  in  1863.

Henry  was  the  son  of  a  general. He  was  educated  at  Harrow  and  Cambridge. He  had  a  brief  stint  in  the  army  in  the  mid  1820s  but  opted  for  the  diplomatic  service  instead  in  1827. He  stood  for  Hertford  in  1826  but  was  first  successful  for  Wilton  as  a  Radical  in  1830. He  switched  to  Coventry  for  the  1831 election  then  Marylebone  in  1835. In  1837  he  gave  u  his  seat  to  be  a  full  time  diplomat  and  was  sent  to  Constantinople. Henry  saw  service  in  Spain, America , France  and  Italy  before  becoming  Ambassador  to  the  Ottoman  Empire  from  1858  to  semi-retirement  in  1865. He  had  some  faith  in  the  reformability  of  the  Turkish  givernment  and  thought  none  of  the  subject  races  were  capable  of  self-government.

Henry  was  a  friend  of  Palmerston's  and  wrote  his  first  biography. He  claimed  that  Palmerston  disapproved  of  Liverpool's  repressive  policies.

Henry  spoke  in  favour  of  the  secret  ballot. and  Irish  disestablishment.

Henry  was  raised  to  the  peerage  in  1871  as  Baron  Dilling  and  Bulwer.

He  died  in  Naples  the  following  year  aged  71.