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Edward Bulwer-Lytton

1803 - 1873

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Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, (25 May 1803 – 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edward Bulwer-Lytton has received more than 934,681 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Edward Bulwer-Lytton is the 6,060th most popular politician (down from 5,217th in 2019), the 1,206th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,121st in 2019) and the 205th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Edward Bulwer-Lytton ranks 6,060 out of 19,576. Before him are Gnaeus Pompeius, Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, Muazzez Sultan, Duke Wilhelm in Bavaria, Spencer Perceval, and Chandragupta I. After him are Margaret, Countess of Anjou, Cai Yong, Carmen Polo, 1st Lady of Meirás, Hor, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, and Marie-Louise Meilleur.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1803, Edward Bulwer-Lytton ranks 22. Before him are Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony, Maria Teresa of Savoy, James Brooke, Princess Alexandrine of Prussia, Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville, and John Ericsson. After him are Muhammad IV of Morocco, Jacques Charles François Sturm, Joseph Paxton, Henry Darcy, Alexander Georg von Bunge, and John Sutter. Among people deceased in 1873, Edward Bulwer-Lytton ranks 17. Before him are Vasil Levski, Amélie of Leuchtenberg, Louis Agassiz, Fyodor Tyutchev, Émile Gaboriau, and Johns Hopkins. After him are Muhammad IV of Morocco, Pauline Therese of Württemberg, Urbano Rattazzi, Sheridan Le Fanu, Michael Madhusudan Dutt, and Princess Charlotte of Württemberg.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edward Bulwer-Lytton ranks 1,206 out of 8,785. Before him are Ally McCoist (1962), Hugh Lofting (1886), John Boorman (1933), Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March (1287), James Mirrlees (1936), and Spencer Perceval (1762). After him are R. D. Laing (1927), Ray Stevenson (1964), Sister Nivedita (1867), John Toshack (1949), Smithson Tennant (1761), and Robert Shaw (1927).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Edward Bulwer-Lytton ranks 205. Before him are Ed Miliband (1969), Louis Lucien Bonaparte (1813), Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York (1341), Rob Roy MacGregor (1671), Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March (1287), and Spencer Perceval (1762). After him are Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany (1763), Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge (1375), James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie (1812), Prince Philippe, Duke of Orléans (1869), Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (1883), and Katharine, Duchess of Kent (1933).

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