Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 2d Baron Lytton
1831–91
Poet and diplomat. Wrote poetry under the pseudonym Owen Meredith. Private secretary to the ambassador to Washington, 1849. Served in embassies in the Hague, Vienna, Belgrade, Athens, Lisbon, Madrid, and Paris. British minister in Lisbon, 1874. Viceroy of India, 1876–80; organised the famous 1877 durbar marking the proclamation of Queen Victoria as empress of India, and aggressively promoted British economic interests. Instrumental in provoking the Second Anglo-Afghan War in 1878, ostensibly in response to Russian expansionism. Resigned on the defeat of the Disraeli government. Ambassador to France, 1887–91. Succeeded as second Baron Lytton, 1873. Created earl of Lytton, 1880.
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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