Earl of Lytton
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The title Earl of Lytton, in the County of Derby, was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1880 for Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Baron Lytton, the former Viceroy of India and son of the novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton.
Lord Lytton holds the subsidiary titles Viscount Knebworth, of Knebworth in the County of Hertford (1880) and Baron Lytton, of Knebworth in the County of Hertford (1866), in the Peerage of the UK, and Baron Wentworth (created by writ in 1529) in the Peerage of England, and is also a Baronet of the United Kingdom, styled "of Knebworth".
The family seat is Knebworth House, Hertfordshire.
[edit] Barons Lytton (1866)
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803-1873)
- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Baron Lytton (1831-1891) (became Earl in 1880)
[edit] Earls of Lytton (1880)
- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831-1891)
- Victor Alexander George Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of Lytton (1876-1947)
- Neville Stephen Bulwer-Lytton, 3rd Earl of Lytton (1879-1951)
- Noel Anthony Scawen Lytton-Milbanke, 4th Earl of Lytton (1900-1985)
- John Peter Michael Scawen Lytton, 5th Earl of Lytton (b. 1950)
Heir Apparent: Philip Anthony Scawen Lytton, Viscount Knebworth (b. 1989)
