Richard Bulkeley

Richard Bulkeley (born Dec. 26, 1717, Dublin, Ire.—died Dec. 7, 1800, Halifax, Nova Scotia) was a British statesman who exercised power in Nova Scotia for 52 years. Details of Bulkeley’s early life are unclear; he may have been an officer in the British Dragoon Guards and later may have served as king’s messenger at Whitehall. In 1749 he traveled to Nova Scotia with the governor, Edward Cornwallis, as his assistant. In 1757 Bulkeley became provincial...