[2][3] Bulwer was educated at Charterhouse School and Trinity College, Cambridge.
[4] Administrative and diplomatic posts held include:[3] Bulwer was appointed to the Order of St Michael and St George, as Companion in 1864, Knight Commander in 1874, and as Knight Grand Cross in 1883.
[8] The town of Bulwer in Natal, South Africa was named after him.
[9] While Governor of Labuan he presented the type specimen of Bulwer's pheasant (Lophura bulweri) to the British Museum, a bird consequently named after him.
[10][3] The author H Rider Haggard dedicated his novel Marie to Sir Henry Bulwer.