Viscount Lytton

GPTKB entity

Properties (49)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf noble title
gptkbp:associatedWith gptkb:British_Empire
Historical fiction
Literary criticism
Romanticism
Theatre
Colonial administration
Victorian literature
British_literature
gptkbp:awards Honorary_Doctorate_from_the_University_of_Edinburgh
gptkbp:birthDate 1803-05-25
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:London,_England
gptkbp:burialPlace gptkb:St._Marychurch,_Devon
gptkbp:children gptkb:Edward_Bulwer-Lytton,_1st_Earl_of_Lytton
gptkbp:createdBy British_peerage
gptkbp:dateOfDeath 1837
gptkbp:deathDate 1873-01-18
gptkbp:deathPlace gptkb:Torquay,_England
gptkbp:descendant gptkb:Lytton_family
gptkbp:heldIn gptkb:Edward_Bulwer-Lytton
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Viscount Lytton
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:George_Eliot
gptkb:Thomas_Hardy
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Lord_Byron
gptkb:Sir_Walter_Scott
gptkb:Charles_Dickens
gptkbp:legacy Influence on later writers
gptkbp:notableEvent gptkb:Indian_Rebellion_of_1857
gptkb:Great_Famine_in_India
Second Anglo-Afghan War
Establishment_of_the_Indian_National_Congress
Introduction_of_the_Vernacular_Press_Act
gptkbp:notableQuote The pen is mightier than the sword.
It is a great thing to be a great man.
gptkbp:notableWork Pelham
The Last Days of Pompeii
Rienzi
The Caxtons
gptkbp:occupation novelist
playwright
poet
gptkbp:parent gptkb:Elizabeth_Lytton
gptkb:William_Bulwer,_1st_Earl_of_Lytton
gptkbp:politicalAffiliation gptkb:Conservative_Party
gptkbp:servedIn gptkb:Governor-General_of_India
gptkbp:spouse Rosina_Bulwer_Lytton
gptkbp:termEnd 1880
gptkbp:termStart 1876
gptkbp:title Viscount