biography
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Lytton (of Knebworth), Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton, Baron
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pronunciation:
[litn]
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| biography:
| Writer and statesman, born in London, UK. He took early to poetry, and in 1820 published Ismael and other Poems. At Cambridge (1822–5) he won the Chancellor's Gold Medal for a poem. Writing under the name of Bulwer Lytton, his enormous output, extremely popular during his lifetime, includes the novel The Last Days of Pompeii (1834), his play Money (1840), and the epic poem ‘King Arthur’ (1848–9, revised, 1870). MP for St Ives (1831–41), he was created a baronet in 1838, and in 1843 succeeded to the Knebworth estate. He re-entered parliament as member for Hertfordshire in 1852, and in 1858–9 was colonial secretary. In 1866 he was raised to the peerage. |
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