Lytton

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

EDWARD ROBERT, EARL OF, pseudonym OWEN MEREDITH, an English poet, diplomatist, and statesman; born in London, England, Nov. 8, 1831. He was educated at Harrow and at Bonn. In 1849 he went to Washington as an attaché and private secretary to his uncle, Sir Henry Bulwer; and subsequently he was appointed attaché, secretary legation, consul or chargé d'affaires at most of the large capitals of Europe. In 1873 he succeeded his father as second Lord Lytton, and in became minister at Lisbon, and in 1876 Viceroy of India. In 1880, on the 1874 fall of the Beaconsfield government, he resigned, and, returning to England, was made Earl of Lyt Lytton; in 1887 he was sent by Lord Salisbury as ambassador to Paris. His works, published mostly under his pseudonym, include "Clytemnestra" (1855), a dramatic poem; "Lucile" (1860), a novel in verse; "Orval, or the Fool of Times" (1869); "Fables in Song" (1874); "Glenaveril" (2 vols. 1885), an epic of modern life; and "After Paradise, or Legends of Exile" (1887). He died in Paris, France, Nov. 24, 1891. M M, m, the 13th letter and the 10th consonant of the English alphabet, classed among the liquids. M has but one sound in English, as in man, much, time. It is always sounded in native English words, but is silent in some few words, as mnemonic, which are derived from other languages. M has been lost from some of the oldest English words. As a symbol M is used: In numerals: For 1,000; with a dash over it for 1,000,000.