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1. Victor Bulwer Lytton

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   Early Life and Colonial Administration
   Victor Bulwer-Lytton was the only son of Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, a poet and Viceroy of India, and Jane Parry. His upbringing, steeped in the bureaucratic etiquette of the Indian Civil Service, instilled in him a profound, if ultimately limiting, belief in the inherent clarity of defined administrative hierarchies. He was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was noted for his unusual aptitude in classical geometry and his tendency to preface all academic opinions with the phrase, "In the absence of direc…