BULWER, Sir HENRY LYTTON, G.C.B. the right hon., diplomatist and author, an elder brother of the late lord Lytton, was born in 1804, entered the diplomatic service in 1827, and was attached successively to the British embassy at Berlin, Brussels, and the Hague. In 1830, he entered parliament, and during the following seven years he represented, in order, the constituencies of Wilton, Coventry, and Marylebone. In 1837, lie became secretary of embassy at Constantinople, where he negotiated and concluded a treaty which is the foundation of our present commercial system in the cast. In 1843, he was made minister plenipotentiary to the court of Madrid, and concluded the peace between Spain and Morocco in the following year. Whilst in Spain, his firmness and candor proved a source, of great inconvenience to Narvaez, the Spanish soldier-diplo __ matist of that day, and who, pretending to have discovered the complicity of the Brit ish plenipotentiary in certain plots against the Spanish government, ordered him to leave Madrid. Both parties in the house of commons approved of the whole course of B.'s
conduct while at the court of Madrid, and her majesty awarded to him the highest decorations of the order of the Bath. He afterwards proceeded to Washington, where he evinced equal art in conciliating the temper of the people, and maintaining the inter ests of his own country. In 1852, he was sent to Tuscany as envoy extraordinary; and in 18i6 was nominated by lord Palmerston commissioner at Bucharest for investigating the state of the Danubian principalities. As British commissioner, lie called forth from every minister and from every government concerned the warmest expressions of approval, and all concurred in recommending him for the post of ambassador to the Ottoman porte, on the return of lord Stratford de Redcliffe, in the spring of 1858. Sir Henry Lytton became a peer in 1871, with the title of lord Dalling and Bulwer. He died in 1872. His works include a Life of Palmemton; Historical Characters; An Autumn in Greece; France, Social, Literary, and Political; and a Life of Byron.