Victor Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of Lytton

Depiction of Lord Lytton in Vanity Fair (1906)

Coat of arms of Victor Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of Lytton, as a Knight of the Order of the Garter

Victor Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of Lytton (born August 9, 1876 in Simla , British India , † October 25, 1947 in Knebworth , Hertfordshire ) was a British peer and politician.

Life

origin

He was the third son of Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton , who was Governor General and Viceroy of India from 1876 to 1880 . He was born in Simla, the summer residence of the Viceroy and Government of British India, in 1876. Since his two older brothers had died young, he inherited his father's title of nobility as Earl of Lytton when his father died in 1891 and thereby became a member of the House of Lords .

Career

He was educated in England at Eton College and completed studies at the Trinity College of Cambridge University in 1898 as a Bachelor of Arts from. He then entered the higher administrative service and was employed in the British Admiralty from 1916 to 1920 . In 1919 he was accepted into the Privy Council and was temporarily Deputy Lieutenant of Hertfordshire . From 1920 to 1922 he was Undersecretary of State for India in the India Office and from 1922 to 1927 Governor of the Province of Bengal . From 1925 to 1926, Bulwer-Lytton served temporarily as Governor General and Viceroy of India .

From 1927 to 1928 he took part in the meetings of the League of Nations as head of the Indian delegation, and in 1931 as British delegate . There he was chairman of the Lytton Commission of the League of Nations to investigate the Mukden incident in Manchuria from 1931 . The fatal bomb attack on the Chinese ruler in Manchuria, Marshal Zhang Zuolin , is considered to be the prelude to the Manchurian crisis between Japan and China .

In 1922 he was named Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire , in 1925 as Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India and in 1933 as Knight Companion of the Order of the Garter . He was also Knight of Justice of the Order of Saint John .

family

From his marriage to Pamela Chichele-Plowden (around 1874–1971), which he entered into in 1902, he had four children:

• Edward Antony James Bulwer-Lytton, Viscount Knebworth (1903-1933), MP;
• Lady Margaret Hermione Millicent Bulwer-Lytton (1905-2004), ⚭ 1930 Cameron Cobbold, 1st Baron Cobbold ;
• Lady Davidema Katharine Cynthia Mary Millicent Bulwer-Lytton (1909–1995), ⚭ 1931 John Crichton, 5th Earl Erne , ⚭ 1945 Montague Woodhouse, 5th Baron Terrington ;
• Alexander Edward John Bulwer-Lytton, Viscount Knebworth (1910–1942), Major in the British Army , died at the Battle of El Alamein .

Since his two sons died unmarried and childless before him, his title of nobility fell to his younger brother Neville Bulwer-Lytton on his death in 1947 .

Web links

Commons : Victor Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of Lytton  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Victor Alexander George Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of Lytton on thepeerage.com
• Lytton, Earl of (UK, 1880) at Cracroft's Peerage

Individual evidence

1. ^ Victor Alexander George Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd earl of Lytton. In: Encyclopædia Britannica . Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2012. Online (English)

predecessor	Office	successor
Rufus Isaacs, 1st Earl of Reading	Governor General and Viceroy of India 1925–1926	Edward Wood, 1st Baron Irwin
Robert Bulwer-Lytton	Earl of Lytton 1891-1947	Neville Bulwer-Lytton