Edward Bulwer-Lytton

• Birth : 25th May 1803 — Death : 18th January 1873

• Number of Books : 1

Biography : Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, was an English politician and writer. He was born to parents to General William Earle Bulwer of Heydon Hall and Wood Dalling, Norfolk and Elizabeth Barbara Lytton, daughter of Richard Warburton Lytton of Knebworth House, Hertfordshire. He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge and Cambridge. He married Rosina Doyle Wheeler (1802–1882) in In August 1827, a writer and noted Irish beauty, against his mother’s wishes, who stopped paying his allowance making him to work for living. They had two children, Lady Emily Elizabeth Bulwer-Lytton (1828–1848), and (Edward) Robert Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) who became Governor-General and Viceroy of British India (1876–1880). He was Secretary of State for the Colonies from June 1858 to June 1859. He was made the Baron Lytton of Knebworth in 1866. His works were successful and paid him well.