Henry Lytton Bulwer

William Henry Lytton Earle Bulwer, the First Baron Dalling and Bulwer, was a British diplomat, posted to Berlin, Vienna, The Hague, Brussels, Constantinople, Paris and Madrid before finally being sent for three years to DC (1849–1852). Later postings included Florence and the Ottoman Empire. He brought his young nephew, Robert Bulwer (who published under the pseudonym Owen Meredith) with him to DC as personal secretary. His was a literary family; a younger brother, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, was a best-selling novelist.

Sir Bulwer’s published works include Ode on the Death of Napoleon and Other Poems (1822) and biographies of other eminent politicians with whom he worked: Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, William Cobbett, John Mackintosh, Charles Canning, Henry John Temple and Robert Peel. In addition, he wrote an epistolary travel memoir, An Autumn in Greece (1826).