Lytton
Americannoun
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Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-, 1st Baron Lytton of Knebworth 1803–73, English novelist, dramatist, and politician.
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his son Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, 1st Earl Lytton Owen Meredith, 1831–91, English statesman and poet.
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Led by postdoctoral researcher Lauren Carnevale, the group worked with Scripps Research Professor John Yates III, a leading expert in mass spectrometry and holder of the John Lytton Young Endowed Chair.
From Science Daily • May 31, 2026
Farther south, the town of Lytton, British Columbia, on June 29 experienced Canada’s hottest recorded temperature, 119 degrees, and was largely destroyed by a wildfire the next day.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2024
Lord Lytton, Byron's great-great-great-grandson, said the bronze, created in 1880 by sculptor Richard Belt, "languishes" in an isolated spot.
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
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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