Edward Bulwer-Lytton
British statesman and author (1803–1873)
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Victorian novelist and politician who shaped colonial policy as Secretary of State for the Colonies. Founded British Columbia's governance structure and churned out melodramatic page-turners that actually made money.
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Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, GCMG, PC 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, as which he selected Richard Clement Moody to found British Columbia. He was created Baron Lytton of Knebworth in 1866.
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