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'Edward G.E.L. Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton', (1850), c1884. Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 -1873), English writer and politician educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. Served as a Whig MP (1831-1841) and a Conservative MP (1851-1866) when he was Secretary of State for the Colonies. Publicly denounced for infidelity by his wife Rosina Bulwer Lytton. From "Leaders of the Senate: A Biographical History of the Rise and Development of the British Constitution, Vol. II.", by Alexander Charles Ewald, F.S.A. [William Mackenzie, London, Edinburgh & Berlin]