# Edward Bulwer-Lytton

> He wrote "It was a dark and stormy night" — the line so bad it spawned a contest for terrible prose — but also gave English "the pen is mightier than the sword" and half a dozen phrases still in circulation.

*British statesman and author (1803–1873)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Politician
- **Category:** Politicians
- **Born:** 1803-05-25
- **Died:** 1873-01-18
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton was born 25 May 1803 and built parallel careers in letters and Parliament. He sat as a Whig MP from 1831 to 1841, then returned as a Conservative from 1851 to 1866, serving as Secretary of State for the Colonies from June 1858 to June 1859 — in which post he selected Richard Clement Moody to found British Columbia. His novels were widely read, and his coinage entered the language: "pursuit of the almighty dollar", "the great unwashed", "dweller on the threshold". He was made Baron Lytton of Knebworth in 1866. He died 18 January 1873, leaving a body of work famous enough that the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest ran from 1982 to 2024 hunting for opening sentences as florid as his most notorious incipit.

## Fame
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## Topics
#Politicians, #Writer / Author, #Theatre, #Literature, #Politics, #Fiction, #Poetry, #19th Century

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