# James Bulwer

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{{Short description|British naturalist (1794–1879)}}
{{for|the English MP, lawyer and cricketer|James Redfoord Bulwer}}
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| birth_place = [Aylsham](/source/Aylsham), Norfolk, England
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| field = Landscape painting
| training = [John Sell Cotman](/source/John_Sell_Cotman)
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thumb|''Funchal from the Anchorage'',(1825)
'''The Reverend James Bulwer''' (21 March 1794{{snd}}11 June 1879) was an [English](/source/England) collector, [naturalist](/source/natural_history), artist and [conchologist](/source/conchologist). He was a close friend and patron of the artist [John Sell Cotman](/source/John_Sell_Cotman). He is considered to be a member of the [Norwich School of painters](/source/Norwich_School_of_painters).

==Life==
James Bulwer was born at [Aylsham](/source/Aylsham) in the English county of [Norfolk](/source/Norfolk), the son of James Bulwer and Mary Seaman, and was [baptised](/source/baptised) by his parents on 23 March 1794, at St Michael and All Angels, the town's [parish](/source/parish) church.<ref name="FS">James Bulwer in "Parish registers, 1550-1900", ''FamilySearch'' ([https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VNJM-H8J James Bulwer]).</ref> He studied at [Jesus College, Cambridge](/source/Jesus_College%2C_Cambridge).<ref>{{acad|id=BLWR814J|name=Bulwer, James}}</ref> During his time at Cambridge he took drawing lessons from the landscape artist [John Sell Cotman](/source/John_Sell_Cotman) and became a fellow of the [Linnean Society](/source/Linnean_Society) due to his interest in [mollusc](/source/mollusc)s, one of his three proposers being [William Elford Leach](/source/William_Elford_Leach).

In 1818 he was made a [deacon](/source/deacon) and in 1822 he became a priest. In 1823 he became [curate](/source/curate) of Booterstown in [Dublin](/source/Dublin), moving to [Bristol](/source/Bristol) in 1831 and St James's, [Piccadilly](/source/Piccadilly) in 1833. He spent several winters travelling in Spain, Portugal and the [Madeira Islands](/source/Madeira_Islands), sometimes in the company of the philosopher and traveller [Alfred Lyall](/source/Alfred_Lyall_(traveller)).  In the spring of 1825 Bulwer collected a specimen of an unknown [petrel](/source/petrel) in the Madeira Islands. This was described by [William Jardine](/source/William_Jardine_(naturalist)) and [P. J. Selby](/source/Prideaux_John_Selby) in 1828 and given the common name of [Bulwer's petrel](/source/Bulwer's_petrel). The petrel genus of ''[Bulweria](/source/Bulweria)'' was also named for him.<ref>{{ cite book | last1=Jardine | first1=William | author1-link=William Jardine (naturalist) | last2=Selby | first2=Prideaux John | author2-link=Prideaux John Selby | date=1828 | title=Illustrations of Ornithology | volume=2 | location=Edinburgh | publisher=W.H. Lizars | at=Plate 65, text | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39769834 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4 | page=80 | url=https://archive.org/stream/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling#page/n80/mode/1up }}</ref>

Bulwer left London in 1839 and moved back to Norfolk, becoming curate of [Blickling Hall](/source/Blickling_Hall) and later of [Hunworth](/source/Hunworth). He renewed his acquaintance with Cotman when his sons attended [King's College School](/source/King's_College_School), and several of his sketches of Spain and Madeira inspired Cotman's [watercolour](/source/watercolour)s.

His son [James Redfoord Bulwer](/source/James_Redfoord_Bulwer) became a lawyer and a [Member of parliament](/source/Member_of_parliament) and also played [first-class cricket](/source/first-class_cricket).

== References ==
{{Reflist}}
* Barbara and Richard Mearns - ''Biographies for Birdwatchers'' (1988) {{ISBN|0-12-487422-3}}

== Bibliography ==
*{{cite book |last= Moore|first= Andrew W.|date= 1985|title= The Norwich School of Artists|publisher= HMSO/Norwich Museums Service}}
*{{cite book |last= Walpole|first= Josephine|date= 1997|title= Art and Artists of the Norwich School|location= Woodbridge|publisher= Antique Collectors' Club|isbn= 1-85149-261-5}}

==External links==
{{Commons category|James Bulwer}}
*[http://norfolkmuseumscollections.org/#!/collections/search?q=james%2Bbulwer&mediaType=image Works related to James Bulwer] held by the [Norfolk Museums Service](/source/Norfolk_Museums_Service)
*[https://www.gallery.ca/library/ngc146.html James Bulwer fonds] at the [National Gallery of Canada](/source/National_Gallery_of_Canada), Ottawa, Ontario

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Category:1794 births
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Category:People from Aylsham
Category:British conchologists
Category:19th-century English Anglican priests
Category:Alumni of Jesus College, Cambridge
Category:Fellows of the Linnean Society of London
Category:19th-century English naturalists

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