- James Bulwer
The Reverend James Bulwer (
March 21 ,1794 -June 11 ,1879 ) was an English collector, naturalist andconchologist .Bulwer was born at
Aylsham inNorfolk and studied atJesus College, Cambridge . During his time at Cambridge he took drawing lessons from the famous landscape artistJohn Sell Cotman , and became a fellow of theLinnean Society due to his interest inmollusk s, one of his three proposers beingWilliam Elford Leach .In 1818 he was made a deacon and in 1822 a priest. In 1823 he became curate of Booterstown in
Dublin , moving toBristol in 1831 and St James's Chapel,Piccadilly in 1833. He spent several winters travelling inSpain ,Portugal and theMadeira Islands , sometimes in the company of the philosopher and travellerAlfred Lyall . In the spring of 1825 Bulwer collected a specimen of an unknownpetrel in the Madeira Islands. This was described by William Jardine and P. J. Selby in 1828 and given the common name ofBulwer's Petrel . The petrel genus of "Bulweria" was also named for him.Bulwer left
London in 1839 and moved back to Norfolk, becoming curate ofBlickling and laterHunworth . He renewed his acquaintance with Cotman when his sons attendedKing's College School , and several of his sketches of Spain and Madeira inspired Cotman's watercolours.References
* Barbara and Richard Mearns - "Biographies for Birdwatchers" (1988) ISBN 0-12-487422-3
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