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Baron Henry Lytton Bulwer Dalling and Bulwer
1801–1872
A British diplomat, politician, and writer, he spent much of his life at the center of 19th-century international affairs. He is best remembered for negotiating the Clayton–Bulwer Treaty and for a career that took him from Parliament to major diplomatic posts in Europe and the United States.
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Historical Characters: Mackintosh, Talleyrand, Canning, Cobbett, Peel
by Baron Henry Lytton Bulwer Dalling and Bulwer
Essai sur Talleyrand
by Baron Henry Lytton Bulwer Dalling and Bulwer
About the author
Born in London in 1801, Henry Lytton Bulwer — later Baron Dalling and Bulwer — built a varied career as a diplomat, Liberal politician, and author. He was the brother of the novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton, but made his own name in public life through diplomacy and government service.
He served in Parliament and then held a series of important diplomatic appointments, including posts in Washington, Madrid, and Constantinople. As British ambassador to the United States, he negotiated the 1850 Clayton–Bulwer Treaty, an agreement tied to plans for a canal across Central America and one of the best-known episodes of his career.
In later years he was raised to the peerage as Baron Dalling and Bulwer. He also wrote books and political reflections, bringing a literary touch to a life otherwise shaped by negotiation, travel, and the pressures of empire-era diplomacy.