Mentioned in 18410000JohnCarlin_WHS_FMS1. "first Baron Lytton (1803–1873), writer and politician, was born on 25 May 1803 at 31 Baker Street, London, the third and youngest son of Colonel (later General) William Earle Bulwer (1757–1807) of Heydon and Wood Dalling, Norfolk, and Elizabeth Barbara Lytton (1773–1843) of Knebworth, Hertfordshire. His elder brothers were William Earle Lytton Bulwer (1799–1877), who inherited the Bulwer family estates in north Norfolk, and (William) Henry Lytton Earle Bulwer (1801–1872), who was knighted in 1848 and raised to the peerage as Baron Dalling and Bulwer in 1871. His daunting array of names is a source of frequent confusion. His forenames were Edward George Earle Lytton (the last of them being his mother's maiden name). For the first forty years of his life his surname was Bulwer though out of respect for his mother's family, to whose estates he was heir, he often styled himself Edward Lytton Bulwer. When his mother died in 1843 and he came into his inheritance, he changed his surname by royal licence to Bulwer Lytton (without a hyphen, though others sometimes supplied one), thus becoming Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer Lytton." "an English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician. He was immensely popular with the reading public and wrote a stream of bestselling novels which earned him a considerable fortune. He coined the phrases "the great unwashed",[1] "pursuit of the almighty dollar", "the pen is mightier than the sword", "dweller on the threshold", as well as the infamous opening line "It was a dark and stormy night".[2]"