Death of Lord Lytton.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6313, 25 November 1891, Page 3

Death of Lord Lytton.

[PKE PEESS ASSOCIATION — eOPTHIGHT.]

(Received November 25, 2.15 p.m.)

Paeis, November 24

Obituary—Lord Lytton, British Ambassador. He died suddenly from heart disease

The Eight Hon. Edward Robert Bulwe,:Lytton, G. 0.8., G.C.5.1., 0.1. E., L.&.D., poet and diplomatist, only eon of the celebrated novelist, poet, dramatist, orator, and statesman, was born November 18, 1831. He was educated at Harrow, and under private tutors, and afterwards at Bonn, where lie devoted himself specially to the study of modern languages. When nearly eighteen years of age he entered the diplomatic service of the Crown, being appointed on October 12, 1849, Attache at Washington, wherehisuncleSirHenryßulwer, afterwards Lord Bailing and Bulwer, was Minister. In 1852 he was transferred as Attache to Florence, and in 1854 was removed to the Einbahsy at Paris. He was then promoted, shortly aftßr the peace of 1856, to be paid Attache at the Hague. Two years afterwards he was appointed first paid Attache at St. Petersburg, and a little mare than two months later was gazetted first paid Attache at Constantinople. From that Embassy he was transferred to one ac Vienna, in 1859. He held various offices up to 1868, when he successfully concluded the negotiation of a Commercial Treaty between Great Britain and Portugal, and was transferred to Madrid. Six months later he was promoted to the Secretaryship of Embassy at Vienna. There he acted once more from October 30th to December 29th, 1869, as Charge d'Affaires, and was thence transferred in 1872 as Secretary of Embassy to Paris. Three months afterwards, upon his father's death, he succeeded to the

title as the second Baron Lytton. Twice during that same year he acted at Paris ac Charge d'Affairea, and to the close of his career iv the French capital aa Secretary of Embassy, he was always, during the absence of the ambassador, accredited there aa Minister Plenipotentiary. Hie Lordship, having previously declined the Governorship of Madras, was appointed Her Britannic Majesty's Minister at Lisbon in 1874, and after occupying the poet for a year, -was suddenly informed by telegram in January of 1876, of his nomination by Mr Disraeli aa Viceroy of India. Hastening ta London to complete hi 1 arrangements for assuming this high office, His Exoelleucy, on the Ist March, took his departure for Hindostan. Midway on the journey Lord Lytton mat by pre-arrangemeut the Prince of Wales, then on hie way home from his tour through India. Immediately on hia arrival at Calcutta, Hie Excellency was sworn in as Governor-General and Viceroy on 12th April 1876, and on the Ist January 1877, surrounded by all the Princes of Hindostan, presided at the gorgeous ceremonial which marked on the plains of Delhi the Proclamation of Her Majesty Queen Victoria as Empress of India. On the 12 th December 1879, an attempt was made to assassinate Lord Lytton, happily without any ill effect whatever. The principal event of Lord Lytton's Vice-Koyalty was the Afghan war. On the '28th of April, 1880, he was raised to the dignity of an Earldom, and his resignation of Viceroy was handed in simultaneously with Lord Beacousfield's in 1880. In 1887 he was appointed Ambassador in Paris. Lord Lytton has published (cbiefly under the assumed name of Owen Meredith) a number of volumes in prose and Terse