Lytton

American

[lit-n] / ˈlɪt n /

noun

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-, 1st Baron Lytton of Knebworth 1803–73, English novelist, dramatist, and politician.
his son Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, 1st Earl Lytton Owen Meredith, 1831–91, English statesman and poet.

Lytton British

/ ˈlɪtən /

noun

1st Baron, title of Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton. 1803–73, British novelist, dramatist, and statesman, noted particularly for his historical romances

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The ticket was issued May 26, a Sunday morning, on the northbound 101 Freeway at Lytton Springs near the Sonoma Wine Country town of Healdsburg.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2024

The Earl of Lytton cited a government pledge made in 1958 during a debate on the then new Park Lane traffic scheme.

From BBC • Apr. 19, 2024

In a 1973 essay in The New York Review of Books, Elizabeth Hardwick lamented the overexposure of its most prominent members — the “exhaustion” of Virginia Woolf and “the draining” of the writer Lytton Strachey.

From New York Times • Sep. 15, 2023

The TransCanada highway was closed near Chase, around 400 km northeast of Vancouver, and between Hope, 150 km east of Vancouver, and the village of Lytton.

From Reuters • Aug. 19, 2023

His athletic grace, social charm, and striking physical beauty had made him a favorite of Lytton Strachey and the Bloomsbury crowd.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

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