British Politician William Henry Lytton Bulwer ALS
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Four page autographed letter dated 1837 and signed by the William Henry Lytton Bulwer. Paper and signature are in good condition, split to fold. (William) Henry Lytton Earle Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer , GCB , PC ( 13 February 1801 -23 May 1872 ) was a British Liberal politician, diplomat and writer.Bulwer was the second son of General William Bulwer and his wife, Elizabeth née Warburton-Lytton and an elder brother of Edward Bulwer (later Bulwer-Lytton). He was educated at Harrow School , Trinity College and then the recently founded Downing College , both at Cambridge . After graduating and touring the continent , he joined the Life Guards in 1824 and exchanged to the 58th Regiment of Foot two years later. After having unsuccessfully contested Hertford in 1826, he joined the Diplomatic Service in 1827 and was sent to Berlin in August that year, to Vienna in April 1829 and then to The Hague in April 1830.In July 1830, Bulwer entered the Commons as MP for the rotten borough of Wilton and was sent to Brussels the following month to report on the Belgian Revolution . A year later, he was returned for Coventry , again in 1833, then for Marylebone in 1835. That year, Bulwer planned to join General Evans , who was raising a legion to help Isabella II of Spain in the First Carlist War , but was instead sent back to the newly-independent
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