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9 unusual facts about Henry Lytton


David Lytton-Cobbold, 2nd Baron Cobbold

His heir, and current occupier of the family seat Knebworth House, is the Hon. Henry Fromanteel Lytton-Cobbold.

Henry Lytton

In 1881, they joined the Philharmonic Theatre, Islington, appearing in several plays, including The Obstinate Bretons and The Shaughraun by Dion Boucicault, and then, with Kate Santley, played at the Royalty Theatre.

In 1931, Lytton was injured in a car accident in which D'Oyly Carte principal contralto Bertha Lewis was killed; Lytton was the driver.

Henry Lytton-Cobbold

Henry Fromanteel Lytton-Cobbold (born 1962) is the current occupier of Knebworth House in Hertfordshire, England.

In 2008 he engaged in a debate with Scott Rice, founder of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, a bad-writing contest sponsored annually by San Jose State University, on the subject of the literary reputation of his ancestor Bulwer-Lytton.

--Martha is apparently the granddaughter of J. Buford Boone, Sr., 1957 Pulitzer Prize winner--> He is a great-great-great grandson of novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton.

The debate took place in Lytton, British Columbia, named for the novelist, and was generally considered to have been won by Lytton-Cobbold.

It was a dark and stormy night

In 2008, the great-great-great grandson of Bulwer-Lytton, Henry Lytton-Cobbold, participated in a debate in the town of Lytton, British Columbia with Scott Rice, the founder of the International Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest.

Lytton, British Columbia

On August 30, 2008, the Village of Lytton invited Henry Lytton-Cobbold, the great-great-great grandson of Edward Bulwer-Lytton, to defend the great man's honour by debating Professor Scott Rice, the sponsor of the BLFC, on the literary and political legacies of his great ancestor.


Charles H. Workman

He later created the part of Adam in F. C. Burnand and R. C. Lehmann's His Majesty (1897; appearing briefly as King Ferdinand when George Grossmith abandoned the part, until Henry Lytton took over).

Isabel Jay

Her first role with Curzon was Sybil Cunningham in The White Chrysanthemum at the Criterion in 1905 (starring with Rutland Barrington and Henry Lytton) and then on tour.


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