Victor Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of Lytton

The Earl of Lytton
The Earl of Lytton, c. 1936
Governor of Bengal
In office
1922–1927
MonarchGeorge V
Preceded byEarl of Ronaldshay
Succeeded bySir Stanley Jackson
Personal details
Born9 August 1876
Simla, British India
Died25 October 1947(1947-10-25) (aged 71)
NationalityBritish
Spouse
Pamela Frances Audrey Chichele-Plowden
(m. 1902)
Children4
Parent(s)The 1st Earl of Lytton
Edith Villiers
RelativesThe 2nd Baron Cobbold (grandson)
The 6th Earl Erne (grandson)
The 6th Baron Terrington (grandson)
The 3rd Earl of Lytton (brother)
ResidenceKnebworth House
EducationEton College
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge

Victor Alexander George Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of Lytton, KG, GCSI, GCIE, GCStJ, PC, DL (9 August 1876 – 25 October 1947), styled Viscount Knebworth from 1880 to 1891, was a British politician and colonial administrator. He served as Governor of Bengal between 1922 and 1927 and was briefly Acting Viceroy of India in 1926. He headed the Lytton Commission for the League of Nations, in 1931–32, producing the Lytton Report which condemned the Japanese invasion of Manchuria and denounced Manchukuo as a Japanese puppet State.


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