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Image:Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton - Project Gutenberg eText 16528.jpg Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton GCB GCSI GCIE PC (8 November, 1831–24 November, 1891) was an English statesman and poet.

The son of the novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, he was educated at Harrow School and at the University of Bonn. When eighteen years old, he went to the United States as private secretary of his uncle, Sir Henry Bulwer, who was Minister at Washington, DC.

When twenty-five years old, he published in London a volume of poems under the name of Owen Meredith. He went on to publish several other volumes under the same name. The most popular one is "Lucile", a story in verse.

He was later secretary at different courts in Europe and Minister to Portugal and France. From 1876 to 1880 he was Viceroy and Governor-General of India. Lytton's tenure as Viceroy coincided with one of the worst recorded famines, and his uncompromising implementation of British Colonial Policy was a factor in its severity.

He succeeded his father as 2nd Baron Lytton in 1873, and in 1880 was created Viscount Knebworth, of Knebworth in the County of Hertford, and Earl of Lytton, in the County of Derby.

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• Works by Owen Meredith at Project Gutenberg

Political offices
Preceded by: The Lord Northbrook	Viceroy of India 1876–1880	Succeeded by: The Marquess of Ripon
Diplomatic Posts
Preceded by: The Earl Lyons	British Ambassador to France 1887–1891	Succeeded by: The Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by: New Creation	Earl of Lytton 1880–1891	Succeeded by: Victor Bulwer-Lytton
Preceded by: Edward Bulwer-Lytton	Baron Lytton 1873–1891

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