His Ernest Maltravers was the first complete novel from the West to be translated into Japanese
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, GCMG, PC was an English writer and politician. He served as a Whig member of Parliament from 1831 to 1841 and a Conservative from 1851 to 1866. He was Secretary of State for the Colonies from June 1858 to June 1859, as which he selected Richard Clement Moody to found British Columbia. He was created Baron Lytton of Knebworth in 1866.
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culture · British statesman and writer (1803–1873) · playwright · writer · politician · novelist · poet · literary critic · science fiction writer · prose writer · satirical novelist · also Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Owen Meredith, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Edward George Earle, 1st Baron Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer, Pisistratus Caxton
Born 25 May 1803 · Died 18 January 1873 · Q318462
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1873· 1 entry
Died 1873-01-18.
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1872· 1 entry
And as the inaugural play at the new California Theatre in San Francisco in 1869
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1870· 1 entry
Was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George
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1867· 1 entry
By Robert Wentworth Little, claimed Bulwer-Lytton as their "Grand Patron", but he wrote to the society complaining that he was "extremely surprised" by their use of the title, as he had "never sanctioned such"
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1866· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the House of Lords (1866–1873).
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1865· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the 19th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1865–1866).
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1859· 2 entries
The Secretary of State for the Colonies, Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, notified Sir George Ferguson Bowen of his appointment as Governor of the new colony to be known as 'Queen's Land'
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Career landmark: member of the 18th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1859–1865).
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1858· 2 entries
Entered Lord Derby's government as Secretary of State for the Colonies, thus serving alongside his old friend Benjamin Disraeli
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Career landmark: Secretary of State for the Colonies (1858–1859).
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1857· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the 17th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1857–1859).
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1852· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the 16th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1852–1857).
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1843· 1 entry
Meant his "exhaustion of toil and study had been completed by great anxiety and grief", and by "about the January of 1844, I was thoroughly shattered"
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1841· 2 entries
Left Parliament and spent much of his time in travel
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Started the Monthly Chronicle, a semi-scientific magazine
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1837· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the 13th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1837–1841).
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1835· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the 12th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1835–1837).
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1834· 1 entry
When he issued a pamphlet entitled A Letter to a Late Cabinet Minister on the Crisis
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1833· 1 entry
Separated acrimoniously and in 1836 the separation became legal
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1832· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the 11th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1832–1834).
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1831· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the 10th Parliament of the United Kingdom (1831–1832).
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Was elected member for St Ives, Cornwall, after which he was returned for Lincoln in 1832, and sat in Parliament for that city for nine years
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1828· 2 entries
Borrowed much from that of banker and forger Henry Fauntleroy, who was hanged in London in 1824 before a crowd of some 100,000
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And established his reputation as a wit and dandy
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1827· 1 entry
A novel which was only a moderate success
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1825· 1 entry
Won the Chancellor's Gold Medal for English verse
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1822· 1 entry
Bulwer-Lytton entered Trinity College, Cambridge, where he met John Auldjo, but soon moved to Trinity Hall
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1820· 1 entry
With the publication of a book of poems and spanned much of the 19th century
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1803· 1 entry
Born 1803-05-25.
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