Born in 1803, died in 1873; educated at Cambridge; member of
Parliament in 1831-41, and 1852-66; Colonial Secretary in
1858; raised to the peerage in 1866; his first work,
"Falkland," published in 1827; "Last Days of Pompeii" in
1834; besides many other novels, wrote volumes of verse,
made translations and wrote dramas, including "The Lady of
Lyons" (1838), and "Richelieu" (1839).