Biography
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, PC (25 May 1803 β 18 January 1873) 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, choosing Richard Clement Moody as founder of British Columbia. He declined the Crown of Greece in 1862 after King Otto abdicated. He was created Baron Lytton of Knebworth in 1866.Bulwer-Lytton's works were well known in his time. He coined famous phrases like "pursuit of the almighty dollar", "the pen is mightier than the sword", "dweller on the threshold", "the great unwashed", and the opening phrase "It was a dark and stormy night." The sardonic Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, held annually since 1982, claims to seek the "opening sentence of the worst of all possible novels".
Filmography
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Movies 16
Writer 13
Iron Sky: The Coming Race (2019)
The Last Days of Pompeii (1959)
The Last Days of Pompeii (1950)
The Night Comes Too Soon (1946)
Cardinal Richelieu (1935)
The King's Highway (1927)
The Last Days of Pompeii (1926)
In the Name of Love (1925)
Eugene Aram (1924)
Damon and Pythias (1914)
Richelieu (1914)
The Last Days of Pompeii (1913)
The Last Days of Pompeii (1913)
Justinian and Theodora (1910)
Richelieu; or: The Conspiracy (1910)
The Last Days of Pompeii (1908)
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GenderMale
Birthday1803-05-25
Deathday1873-01-18 (69 years old)
Birth NameEdward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton
Birth PlaceLondon, United Kingdom
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SpouseRosina Bulwer Lytton
ChildrenEmily Bulwer-Lytton, Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
FatherWilliam Earle Bulwer
MotherElizabeth Barbara Lytton
SiblingsHenry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer, William Earle Lytton Bulwer
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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