Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
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His Excellency The Right Honourable The Earl of Lytton GCB GCSI GCIE PC |
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Earl of Lytton(Bhand Takka), photo by Nadar
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| British Ambassador to France | |
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In office 1887–1891 |
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| Monarch | Queen Victoria |
| Preceded by | The Viscount Lyons |
| Succeeded by | The Marquess of Dufferin and Ava |
| Viceroy and Governor-General of India | |
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In office 12 April 1876 – 8 June 1880 |
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| Monarch | Queen Victoria |
| Preceded by | The Earl of Northbrook |
| Succeeded by | The Marquess of Ripon |
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| Born | 8 November 1831 |
| Died | 24 November 1891 (aged 60) |
| Nationality | British |
| Spouse(s) | Edith Villiers (d. 1936) |
| Alma mater | University of Bonn |
Edward Robert Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton GCB GCSI GCIE PC (8 November 1831 – 24 November 1891) was an English statesman and poet. He served as Viceroy of India between 1876 and 1880, during which time Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India.
An accomplished and popular diplomat, Lytton was afforded the rare tribute - especially for an Englishman - of a state funeral in Paris, although as Viceroy of India he has been criticised for his handling of the Great Famine of 1876–78 and the Second Anglo-Afghan War. His son Victor Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of Lytton, who was born in India, returned as Governor of Bengal and was briefly acting Viceroy.
He was a son of the novelists Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton and Rosina Doyle Wheeler (the daughter of the early women's rights advocate Anna Wheeler). His parents split up when he was a small boy, and the separation was acrimonious. His mother, who under the laws of the time lost access to her children, caricatured his father in 1839 novel Cheveley, or the Man of Honour. (See Women in the Victorian era.) Many years later, when he was a young man, his father had his mother placed under restraint as insane, which led to public outcry and her liberation a few weeks later. She chronicled this in her memoirs.
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