Edward Robert Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831-1891) was an English statesman, serving as Viceroy of India; and poet, under the pen name of Owen Meredith. He was educated at Harrow School and at the University of Bonn. At the age of eighteen, he went to the United States as private secretary of his uncle, Sir Henry Bulwer, who was Minister at Washington, DC. At the age of twenty-five, he published in London a volume of poems under the name of Owen Meredith. He went on to publish several other volumes under the same name. The most popular one is Lucile, a story in verse published in 1860. He was later secretary at different courts in Europe and Minister to Portugal and France. From 1876 to 1880 he was Viceroy and Governor-General of India. He succeeded his father as 2nd Baron Lytton in 1873, and in 1880 was created Viscount Knebworth, of Knebworth in the County of Hertford, and Earl of Lytton, in the County of Derby.