Sir Edward Hulse, 6th Baronet

Sir Edward Henry Hulse, 6th Baronet (25 Aug 1859 – 29 May 1903) was a British Conservative Party politician.

Educated at Eton College and Brasenose College, Oxford, he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Salisbury at the 1886 general election, and was returned to the House of Commons at the next two general elections. He resigned his seat on 16 January 1897 by becoming Steward of the Manor of Northstead.

In 1888 he married Edith Maud Levy-Lawson, daughter of Sir Edward Levy-Lawson. They had one son, Edward Hamilton Westrow Hulse, born in 1889, who was to succeed to the baronetcy.

Hulse held a commission in the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry. With the outbreak of the Second Anglo-Boer War the Imperial Yeomanry was formed from contingents of the Yeomanry regiments. Hulse was posted to the 15th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry at the beginning of 1900 and served as a captain in South Africa, where he was mentioned in dispatches. His brother, Major Charles Westrow Hulse was killed in action during the war, and Sir Edward was himself severely injured in 1901.

In late May 1902 he was appointed assistant press censor on the military staff. Following the end of the war only days later, he remained in South Africa, and was appointed chief press censor in the new colonies in early July that year. In his final months he was in financial difficulty, having lost considerable sums of money on the stock exchange and at horse races. He was also suffering considerable pain from his injuries. His body was discovered in his bedroom in Johannesburg on the morning of 30 May 1903 having committed suicide with his revolver.