Noel Lytton, 4th Earl of Lytton
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The Right Honourable Lt-Col The Earl of Lytton OBE |
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Lytton in 1924
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| Born |
Noel Anthony Scawen Bulwer-Lytton 7 April 1900 Chelsea, London |
| Died | 18 January 1985 (aged 84) Crawley, Sussex |
| Alma mater | Royal Military Academy Sandhurst |
| Awards | Officer of the Order of the British Empire |
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 United Kingdom
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| Service/branch |
 British Army
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| Years of service | 1939-1945 |
| Rank | Lieutenant-Colonel |
| Unit | Rifle Brigade |
| Battles/wars | World War II |
Lieutenant-Colonel Noel Anthony Scawen Lytton, 4th Earl of Lytton OBE (7 April 1900 – 18 January 1985) was a British Army officer, Arabian horse fancier and writer.
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. Her daughter Anne Blunt (born 1837) was Noel's maternal grandmother. He is also a great-grandson of the author and politician Edward Bulwer-Lytton.
In 1925, Lytton and his sister Anne changed their surname to Lytton-Milbanke by deed poll, in honour of Noel's mother's succession to the Barony of Wentworth, which could pass to either of them. (They both later went back to Lytton and not Bulwer-Lytton.)
Lytton was raised just east of the Sussex town of Crawley, in the mansion built by his maternal grandparents on the grounds of their renowned horse breeding establishment, the Crabbet Arabian Stud. 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."
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