A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Dalling And Bulwer, William Henry Lytton Earle Bulwer, 1st Lord
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Dalling and Bulwer, William Henry Lytton Earle Bulwer, 1st Lord (1801-1872).—Elder brother of Lord Lytton (q.v.), and a distinguished diplomatist. He represented England at Madrid, Washington (where he concluded the Bulwer-Clayton Treaty), Florence, Bucharest, and Constantinople, and was raised to the peerage in 1871. He was the author of a number of books of travel and biography, including An Autumn in Greece (1826), a Life of Byron (1835), Historical Characters (1868-70), and an unfinished life of Lord Palmerston.