Henry Lytton-Cobbold
Henry Fromanteel Lytton-Cobbold (born 1962) is the current occupant of Knebworth House in Hertfordshire, England.
He is the son of David Antony Fromanteel Lytton-Cobbold, 2nd Baron Cobbold, and is heir to the Barony of Cobbold. He is married to Martha Boone, with two children, Morwenna Gray and Edward. He is a great-great-great grandson of novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton.
Trained as a screenwriter, Lytton-Cobbold was an assistant to the filming of The Shooting Party, part of which was filmed at Knebworth House, and subsequently worked on Water.[1] From 1987 until 1993, he lived in Los Angeles, and scripted several TV shows, including Lake Consequence.[2] He returned to England and lived in Knebworth village until 2000, when he took over the daily running of Knebworth House from his father.[1] He continued to practice his trade during this period, scripting Night of Abandon, an episode of the Red Shoe Diaries, in 1997.[2]
In 2008 he engaged in a debate with Scott Rice, founder of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, a bad-writing contest sponsored annually by San Jose State University, on the subject of the literary reputation of his ancestor Bulwer-Lytton. The debate took place in Lytton, British Columbia, named after the novelist, and was generally considered to have been won by Lytton-Cobbold.[3]
