Background
He was the elder son of Sir Richard Bulkeley, 1st Baronet and his first wife Catherine Bysse, daughter of John Bysse, sometime Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer.
He was the elder son of Sir Richard Bulkeley, 1st Baronet and his first wife Catherine Bysse, daughter of John Bysse, sometime Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer.
Bulkeley was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and Christ Church, Oxford, graduating from both with a Bachelor of Arts in 1680.
In the following year, he became a Fellow of Trinity College and received a Master of Arts in 1682. Bulkeley was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1685. In the same year he succeeded his father as baronet.
However he was attainted by the Irish Parliament after the Glorious Revolution of 1689.
Three years later Bulkeley entered the Irish House of Commons for Fethard (County Wexford), representing the constituency until his death in 1710. Their only son died as an infant.
Bulkeley died in 1710 and was buried at Ewell. With his death the baronetcy became extinct.
Royal Society.