Lytton
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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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Judge Bilal Siddique told Cummings, of Lytton Way, what happened could "only be described as nothing other than a campaign of abuse".
From BBC
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
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
The Earl of Lytton cited a government pledge made in 1958 during a debate on the then new Park Lane traffic scheme.
From BBC
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
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