8 November 1831 The future diplomat and poet Edward Robert Bulwer (later Bulwer Lytton, who also used the pseudonym 'Owen Meredith') was born in London, the younger child of writers Rosina and Edward Bulwer (later Bulwer Lytton).

24 November 1891 Diplomat and poet Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, first Earl of Lytton (who had published as 'Owen Meredith'), died at the British embassy in Paris.