Lytton, Victor Alexander George Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of, Viscount Knebworth Of Knebworth, 3rd Baron Lytton Of Knebworth
- Lytton, Victor Alexander George Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of, Viscount Knebworth Of Knebworth, 3rd Baron Lytton Of Knebworth
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▪ British statesman
born Aug. 9, 1876, Simla, India
died Oct. 26, 1947, Knebworth, Hertfordshire, Eng.
British governor of Bengal (1922–27) and chairman of the League of Nations mission to Manchuria, which produced the so-called Lytton Report (1932), condemning Japan's aggression there. (
See Lytton Commission.)
Bulwer-Lytton was born in India when his father, the 1st earl, was viceroy there; and he succeeded to his father's titles while still a schoolboy. He was educated at Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge, and secured his first government posts, in the Admiralty, during World War I. In 1920 he became parliamentary undersecretary to the India Office and in 1922 became governor of Bengal, serving for the next few years as occasional viceroy while the appointed viceroy was on leave.
His League of Nations mission to Manchuria in 1932 was widely praised but led to no effective sanctions against Japan. From then on, Lytton chaired various bodies but none of great import. He retired in 1945.
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