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Edward Bulwer-Lytton

1803 - 1873

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Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, PC (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 865,335 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Edward Bulwer-Lytton is the 5,229th most popular politician (down from 4,675th in 2019), the 1,125th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,040th in 2019) and the 190th most popular British Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Edward Bulwer-Lytton ranks 5,229 out of 15,577Before him are Marino Faliero, Taksony of Hungary, Hwang Jang-yop, Rexhep Meidani, Ivan Asen I of Bulgaria, and Princess Friederike of Brandenburg-Schwedt. After him are Hipólito Yrigoyen, João Figueiredo, Liamine Zéroual, Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d'Arquien, Sultan Satuq Bughra Khan, and Anne Hidalgo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1803, Edward Bulwer-Lytton ranks 17Before him are Charles Lucien Bonaparte, Flora Tristan, James Brooke, Maria Teresa of Savoy, Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony, and Ferenc Deák. After him are Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville, Princess Alexandrine of Prussia, John Ericsson, Joseph Paxton, and Henry Darcy. Among people deceased in 1873, Edward Bulwer-Lytton ranks 17Before him are Fyodor Tyutchev, Vasil Levski, Amélie of Leuchtenberg, Johns Hopkins, Émile Gaboriau, and Louis Agassiz. After him are Princess Charlotte of Württemberg, Pauline Therese of Württemberg, Sheridan Le Fanu, Viktor Hartmann, Jean Chacornac, and José Antonio Páez.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edward Bulwer-Lytton ranks 1,125 out of 7,765Before him are Robert Stirling (1790), Tom Simpson (1937), Edward Gordon Craig (1872), Marty Feldman (1934), Joseph Bell (1837), and John Fisher (1469). After him are John Stewart Bell (1928), Rosamund Pike (1979), Idris Elba (1972), George Fox (1624), Antony Flew (1923), and John William Godward (1861).

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