Henry Ernest Gascoyne Bulwer

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Sir Henry Ernest Gascoyne Bulwer GCMG (born December 11, 1836 - September 30, 1914 ) was a British colonial administrator who, among other things, was Vice Governor of the Colony of Natal during the Zulu War in 1879 and lastly High Commissioner of Cyprus between 1886 and 1892 .

Life

Family relationships and beginning of professional career

Bulwer was the son of William Earle Lytton Bulwer, the eldest son of General William Earle Bulwer, and a nephew of Henry Bulwer , who was a member of the House of Commons as a representative of the Liberal Party and in 1871 as 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer of Dalling , in the County of Norfolk, and by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton , author of the 1834 novel The Last Days of Pompeii , his father's two younger brothers.

After attending the Charterhouse School , he graduated from Trinity College at the University of Cambridge and then entered the colonial administration and the foreign service as a civil servant and was an official resident in the Ionian Islands from 1860 to 1864 . Subsequently, he was briefly the private secretary of his uncle Henry Bulwer, who was ambassador to the Ottoman Empire between 1858 and 1865 and then acted as treasurer and receiver-general of Trinidad in 1866 .

In 1867 he became the acting successor of James Robert Longden as Lieutenant-Governor of Dominica and held the office until his replacement by Sanford Freeling in 1869.

In 1871 he was appointed to succeed John Pope Hennessy as governor of Labuan . He held this position until 1875 and was then replaced by Herbert Taylor Ussher . He also acted as Consul General of North Borneo .

Governor of Natal, Zulu War and High Commissioner of Cyprus

Attack of the Zulu at Isandhlwana (1879)

Subsequently, on September 3, 1875, after a short interim tenure from Garnet Wolseley, Benjamin Chilley Campbell Pine succeeded Benjamin Chilley Campbell Pine as lieutenant governor of the colony of Natal. In this post he followed on April 20, 1880, first William Bellairs and then on May 5, 1880 Henry Hugh Clifford acting, before George Pomeroy Colley was first governor of the colony of Natal on July 2, 1880 . During his tenure in 1879, the Zulu War between the Zulu people and the British Empire fell after he had failed in 1878 to secure the peace and security he wanted for the colony through a border commission with the Kingdom of Zululand . During the Zulu War there was a conflict with the Commander-in-Chief of the British Colonial Forces, Frederic Augustus Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford , over the responsibilities of military and civil administration. He also opposed the attacks carried out by Chelmsford in the border regions for fear of reprisal attacks by the Zulus.

On March 6, 1882, he returned to Natal as the successor to Charles Bullen Hugh Mitchell , where he was governor of the colony until October 23, 1885. As such, he rejected the reinstatement of Cetshwayo as King of Zululand, because he feared a threat to the security of the colony of Natal, and was after the second division of Zululand in 1883 Special Commissioner for Zulu Affairs. His successor as governor of the colony was not installed until February 18, 1886 with Arthur Havelock .

On March 9, 1886, Bulwer finally succeeded Robert Biddulph as High Commissioner of Cyprus and held this office until his replacement by Walter Sendall on April 5, 1892.

For his many years of service he was raised to the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George , so that he had the addition of "Sir".

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dominica (rulers.org)
  2. ↑ Malaysia States (rulers.org)
  3. ^ South Africa (rulers.org)
  4. ↑ Cyprus (rulers.org)
personal data
SURNAME Bulwer, Henry Ernest Gascoyne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British colonial administrator
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1836
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1914