Edward Bulwer-Lytton Biobite

Today’s Happy Birthday shout out goes to Edward Bulwer-Lytton, born May 25, 1803.

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, 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. A noted philhellene, Bulwer-Lytton was offered the Crown of Greece in 1862 after King Otto abdicated, but he declined. He was created Baron Lytton of Knebworth in 1866.

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