Person:Robert Bulwer-Lytton (1)

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Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
b.8 Nov 1831
d.24 Nov 1891
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Name Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
Gender Male
Birth[1] 8 Nov 1831
Marriage to Edith Villiers
Death[1] 24 Nov 1891
Reference Number? Q335493?


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Edward Robert Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, (8 November 183124 November 1891) was an English statesman, Conservative politician, and poet (who used the pseudonym Owen Meredith). He served as Viceroy of India between 1876 and 1880during his tenure Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of Indiaand as British Ambassador to France from 1887 to 1891.

His tenure as Viceroy was controversial for its ruthlessness in both domestic and foreign affairs: especially for his handling of the Great Famine of 1876–78, and the Second Anglo-Afghan War. Lytton's policies were alleged to be informed by his Social Darwinism. His son Victor Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of Lytton, who was born in India, later served as Governor of Bengal and briefly as acting Viceroy. The senior earl was also the father-in-law of the architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, who designed New Delhi.

Lytton was a protégé of Benjamin Disraeli in domestic affairs, and of Richard Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons, who was his predecessor as Ambassador to France, in foreign affairs. His tenure as Ambassador to Paris was successful, and Lytton was afforded the rare tribute – especially for an Englishman – of a French state funeral in Paris.

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.