#2298, Victor Alexander George Robert LYTTON
| Born | 09 Aug 1876 in Simla, India |
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| Died | 25 Oct 1947 in Buried at Knebworth |
| Occupation | Politician and colonial administrator | Education | Educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge where he was secretary of the University Pitt Club. Later he was awarded an Hon. LL.D by Decca University in 1927. |
| Father | Edward Robert BULWER LYTTON (1831 - 1891) |
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| Mother | Edith VILLIERS (15 Sep 1841 - 17 Sep 1936) |
Victor was Governor of Bengal between 1922 and1927 and was briefly Acting Viceroy of India in 1926. He headed the Lytton Commission for the League of Nations in 1931/32, producing the Lytton Report which condemned the Japanese invasion of Manchuria and denounced Manchukuo as a Japanese puppet state.
Earlier he held various posts in the Admiralty between 1916 and 1920 before being appointed Under-Secretary of State for India, a post which he held between 1920 and 1922. He was made a Privy Councillor in 1919 and Governor of Bengal on 16th February 1922
He wrote two books, one possibly Man's Supreme Inheritance and the other Pundits and Elephants (1942)
He became 2nd Earl of Lytton in the county of Derby on the death of his father
Timeline
Born
Death of Father, Edward Robert BULWER LYTTON
Married Pamela Frances Audrey CHICHELE-PLOWDEN in St. Margaret's, Westminster
Birth of Son, Edward Antony James BULWER-LYTTON
Birth of Daughter, Margaret Hermione Millicent BULWER-LYTTON
Birth of Daughter, Davidema Katherine Cynthia BULWER-LYTTON
Birth of Son, Alexander Edward John Bulwer LYTTON
Death of Son, Edward Antony James BULWER-LYTTON
Death of Mother, Edith VILLIERS
Death of Son, Alexander Edward John Bulwer LYTTON
Died 1947