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Sir Edward G. D. Bulwer-Lytton (1301 words) |
 | of General William Earle Bulwer (1757-1807) of Heydon Hall in Norfolk and the Herfordshire heiress Elizabeth Barbara Lytton (1773-1843) of the Robinson and Lytton families of Knebworth, was born at 31 Baker Str., London, on 25 May, 1803. |
| Bulwer sought legal guardianship of her children through the Court of Chancery owing to her husband's volcanic temperament. |
| Honours continued to be showered upon him: the Order and St. Michael and St. George (15 January, 1870), an honorary LL.D. from Oxford (1864), the rectorship of Glasgow University (1856, 1856), and even an offer of the throne of Greece, left vacant by the abdication of King Otho. |
| Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (187 words) |
| Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, 1803–73, English novelist. |
| The son of Gen. William Bulwer and Elizabeth Lytton, he assumed the name Bulwer-Lytton in 1843 when he inherited the Lytton estate “Knebworth.” He was created Baron Lytton of Knebworth in 1866. |
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