LYTTON

EDWARD GEORG? BARON (1803-73), Eng. writer; young- ' €st son of General Bulwer; played prom_inent part in society; early writings in verse; Pelham, 1828, established his popularity as novelist; series of brilliant novels followed, including Hugene Aram, | Paul Clifford, and Go dolphin; in The Last ' Days of Pompei and Rienzt he showed an unsuspected power of sustaining human interest mm archmological gical a and historical fiction; his three chief plays! Lady of Lyons, Richelieu, Money, had unprecedented succe ; command over motive of terror shown in short story, The Haunted and the Haunters. Prominent Liberal politician as well as writer: secretary of state for colonies, 1858-9; cr. baron, 1866