(The Desert and The Green)
The Desert and The Green
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Lytton was born in 1900, the son of Neville Stephen Bulwer-Lytton, 3rd Earl of Lytton and his wife, Judith Blunt-Lytton, who later divorced. He was a descendant of the poet and adventurer Lord Byron (born 1788), via his daughter Ada Lovelace (born 1815), arguably the world"s first computer programmer. He is also a great-grandson of the author and politician Edward Bulwer-Lytton.
Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
Her daughter Anne Blunt (born 1837) was Noel"s maternal grandmother. (They both later went back to Lytton and not Bulwer-Lytton)
He was educated at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and was commissioned in the Rifle Brigade. He later taught economics there in the 1930s.
In the time between the World Wars, he served "as an administrator and keeper of the peace in the area around Lake Rudolph in Kenya."
He served as administrator of the Patras District from 1944 to 1945.
He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for his service in 1945. As part of government administration, Lytton eventually went to Yugoslavia to work with Josip Broz Tito"s Partisans.
John Peter Michael, 5th Earl of Lytton and 18th Baron Wentworth
Honorary (Thomas) Roland Cyril Lawrence Lytton
Lady Caroline Mary Noel Lytton
Lady Lucy Mary Frances Lytton
Lady Sarah Teresa Mary Lytton
Due to his family"s continued interest in the Arabian horse breed, he contributed from his private collection to the West.K. Kellogg Arabian Horse Library at Cal Poly Pomona.
Noel Lytton succeeded his father as the 4th Earl of Lytton in 1951, and his mother as 17th Baron Wentworth in 1957.
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