Sir Stafford Cripps, George Bernard Shaw, Henry Irving and other stage grandees, Lord Lytton and other eminent people of the era also wrote positive appreciations of his work after taking lessons with Alexander.

In March 1880, a report reached India that Abdur Rahman was in northern Afghanistan ; and the governor-general, Lord Lytton, opened communications with him to the effect that the British government were prepared to withdraw their troops, and to recognize Abdur Rahman as Amir of Afghanistan, with the exception of Kandahar and some districts adjacent to it.

After its first release, this book sold far better than any of Butler's other works — perhaps because the British public assumed that the anonymous author was some better-known figure ( the favorite being Lord Lytton, who had published The Coming Race two years previously ).

He had two elder brothers, William Earle Lytton Bulwer ( 1799 – 1877 ) and Henry ( 1801 – 1872 ), later Lord Dalling and Bulwer.

Lord Lytton held that seat until 1866, when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Lytton of Knebworth in the County of Hertford.

) Some British citizens, such as William Digby, agitated for policy reforms and famine relief, but Lord Lytton, the governing British viceroy in India, opposed such changes in the belief that they would stimulate shirking by Indian workers.

The Life of Lord Palmerston up to 1847 was written by Lord Dalling ( Sir H. Lytton Bulwer ), volumes I and II ( 1870 ), volume III edited and partly written by Evelyn Ashley ( 1874 ), after the author's death.

The Clayton – Bulwer Treaty was a treaty between the United States and the United Kingdom, negotiated in 1850 by John M. Clayton and Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer, later Lord Dalling.

Moxon continued to publish: in 1840 he published Robert Browning's Sordello, and in succeeding years works by Richard Monckton Milnes, Tom Hood, Barry Cornwall, Lord Lytton, Browning and Alfred Tennyson appeared.

In 1862 Lytton was promoted to Second Secretary in Vienna, but his success in Belgrade led to Lord Russell appointing him Secretary of the Legation at Copenhagen in 1863.

The Viceroy of India, Lord Edward Lytton is seated on the dais to the left.

In 1879 an attempt was made to assassinate Lord Lytton, but he escaped uninjured.

In 1877, Lord Lytton convened a durbar ( imperial assembly ) in Delhi which was attended by around 84, 000 people including princes and title holders.

Lord Lytton arrived as Viceroy of India in 1876.

Lord Lytton died in Paris on 24 November 1891, where he was given the rare honour of a state funeral.

The Lord Lytton

* Speeches of Edward Lord Lytton with some of his Political Writingss, Hitherto unpublished, and a Prefactory Memoir by His Son, 1874

* The Life Letters and Literary Remains of Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton, 1863

He criticized the administration of Lord Lytton ( before 1879 ) which according to him cared little for the welfare and aspiration of the people of India.

The Government of Lord Lytton dismissed him from his position in the Secretariat.

Victoria did not attend personally, but was represented by the Viceroy, Lord Lytton.

Lord Lytton married Pamela Plowden, remembered as the first great love of Winston Churchill.

In 1885, at the moment when the Amir was in conference with the British viceroy, Lord Dufferin, in India, the news came of a skirmish between Russian and Afghan troops at Panjdeh, over a disputed point in the demarcation of the northwestern frontier of Afghanistan.

When the League retracted its approval of the 16 May plan, the viceroy Lord Wavell invited the Congress to form the government.

Shortly after their arrival, the Federation's Neimoidian viceroy Nute Gunray has their starship destroyed and attempts to gas them on orders from the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, who is using the Federation as pawns in a larger scheme to take over the Galactic Republic.

" Burnet's viewpoint, whilst contemporary was not unbiased, however, and whilst Essex's brother's administration as Lord Deputy in 1696 ' followed such a high minded approach his predecessors, such as Clarendon, Tyrconnel and Ormond's own last period as viceroy could not be said to have followed Essex's model.

He proved to be a conscientious viceroy and, unlike so many other politicians of his age, he quickly showed an acumen for understanding accounts which was to lead to all kinds of challenges with the undertaking of Lord Ranelagh and his partners and with the same lord when he became vice-treasurer of Ireland in 1675.

He was, in 1916, appointed as governor general by King George V, on the recommendation of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom H. H. Asquith, to replace Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, as viceroy, and occupied that post until succeeded by the Lord Byng of Vimy in 1921.

Athlone then served as Chancellor of the University of London until he was in 1940 appointed as Canada's governor general by George VI, king of Canada, on the recommendation of Prime Minister of Canada William Lyon Mackenzie King, to replace the Lord Tweedsmuir as viceroy, and he occupied the post until succeeded by the Viscount Alexander of Tunis in 1946.

Further, garden parties are held by the viceroy in the summer months, continuing the tradition started by the Lord Lisgar in 1869, and each year the governor general holds a New Year's Levée, an event that traces its roots back to the French royal government, and which welcomes guests from the public to attend and participate in skating, sledding, and refreshments.

Lord Clarendon remained viceroy of Ireland till 1852.

He advised Lord Auckland to support Dost Mahommed on the throne of Kabul, but the viceroy preferred to follow the opinion of Sir William Hay Macnaghten and reinstated Shah Shuja, thus leading to the disasters of the First Afghan War.

In December 1944, during a ceremony at Imphal in front of the Scottish, Gurkha and Punjabi regiments, Slim and three of his corps commanders ( Christison, Scoones and Stopford ) were knighted by the viceroy Lord Wavell and invested with their honours: Slim was presented with his insignia as KCB, the others with their KBEs.

In December 1944 Christison and his fellow corps commanders Stopford and Scoones were knighted and invested as KBE by the viceroy Lord Wavell at a ceremony at Imphal in front of the Scottish, Gurkha and Punjab regiments.

Lord Harcourt, who succeeded Townshend as viceroy, saw that Flood must be conciliated at any price rather than risk the opposition of so formidable a leader.

Acting on these sentiments, Lord Ripon, viceroy from 1880 to 1885, extended the powers of local self-government and sought to remove racial practices in the law courts by the Ilbert Bill.

A secret despatch, couched in arrogant and offensive terms, was addressed to the viceroy by Lord Ellenborough, then a member of the Derby administration, which would have justified the Governor-General in immediately resigning.

Lord Lytton, the viceroy, ordered a diplomatic mission to set out for Kabul in September 1878 but the mission was turned back as it approached the eastern entrance of the Khyber Pass, triggering the Second Anglo-Afghan War.

Ramanath Tagore was made a Maharaja by Lord Lytton, viceroy of India.

Deputizing for Lord Lansdowne, the viceroy, inaugurated the Bridge on March 25, 1889.

The stadium was named after the Lord Irwin, 30th viceroy of India and the then Secretary of State for War.

In December, Slim and three of his corps commanders ( Scoones, Christison and Stopford ) were knighted by the viceroy Lord Wavell, at a ceremony at Imphal in front of Scottish, Gurkha and Punjab regiments.

In 1903 he asked Lord George Nathaniel Curzon, viceroy of India, for permission to abdicate, but his request was denied.

In that same year, the viceroy, Lord Elgin, requested that MacDonnell again take charge of Bengal as Lieutenant-Governor, an offer he declined due to fatigue and the frail health of his wife.

It describes the events in the Indian independence movement in 1947-48, beginning with the appointment of Lord Mountbatten of Burma as the last viceroy of British India, and ending with the death and funeral of Mahatma Gandhi.