Antony Bulwer-Lytton, Viscount Knebworth

Who was Antony Bulwer-Lytton, Viscount Knebworth?

Edward Antony James Bulwer-Lytton, Viscount Knebworth was a British pilot and Conservative politician.

Knebworth was the eldest son of Victor Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of Lytton, and his wife Pamela, daughter of Sir Trevor Chichele-Plowden. Lady Hermione Lytton was his sister. He was educated at Eton and Oxford University. He worked briefly as a stockbroker in London before taking up a post in the Education Department of the Central Conservative Office. Knebworth unsuccessfully contested the Labour stronghold of Shoreditch in 1929, but was returned to Parliament for Hitchin in 1931. The latter year he also joined the Royal Auxiliary Air Force and qualified as a pilot the following year.

Lord Knebworth was killed in the crash of a Hawker Hart at Hendon on 1 May 1933, aged only 29. His younger brother Alexander was killed at the Second Battle of El Alamein in 1942 and their uncle Neville Bulwer-Lytton later succeeded in the earldom.