1752-1822. Thomas James was the 7th Viscount Bulkeley in the Irish Peerage. His seat was Baron Hill, Anglesey.

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He was granted an English Baronage by Pitt in 1784. Half brother of Sir Robert Williams. 

Bulkeley was a close friend of Nugent Buckingham and they travelled the Grand Tour together in 1773-74. He was a Grenvillite: 

• 1774-84: MP for Anglesey
• 1790-1826: MP for Carnarvonshire

He controlled the pocket borough of Beaumaris and twice made it available to two Grenvillites:

• 1784: to Hugh Fortescue
• 1794: to Sir William Watkins Wynn

When the Grenvillites voted against the Treaty of Amiens in May 1802, he voted in favour of the treaty and did not return to the Grenville line until Pitts death in January 1806. 

Bulkeley had mixed views on the catholic question. He followed the Grenville line in promoting emancipation but privately he admitted to Lord Auckland that he thought it a political millstone  (particularly in anti-catholic Wales):

[I wish] that the Catholic question was at the bottom of the sea, for it hangs like a millstone around the necks of those who have attached themselves to Lord Grenville, more especially as he adheres to it with a pertinacity and obstinacy which can be agreeable to none but his opponents. (Hogge, IV, 386; 2 January 1813)

A member of Brooks's Club.