Editing Edward Bulwer-Lytton (section)

===British Columbia===
When news of the [[Fraser Canyon Gold Rush]] reached London, Bulwer-Lytton, as Secretary of State for the Colonies, requested that the War Office recommend a field officer, "a man of good judgement possessing a knowledge of mankind", to lead a Corps of 150 (later increased to 172) Royal Engineers, who had been selected for their "superior discipline and intelligence".<ref name="Jean Barman p. 71">Jean Barman, The West Beyond the West: A History of British Columbia, (Toronto: University of Toronto), p. 71.</ref> The War Office chose [[Richard Clement Moody]], and Lord Lytton, who described Moody as his "distinguished friend",<ref name="Rambling Recollections"/> accepted the nomination in view of Moody's military record, his success as Governor of the Falkland Islands, and the distinguished record of his father, [[Thomas Moody (1779–1849)|Colonel Thomas Moody, Knight]] at the Colonial Office.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=5715 |title=Entry for Richard Clement Moody in Dictionary of Canadian Biography |year=2002 |access-date=11 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121011185856/http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=5715 |archive-date=11 October 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref> Moody was charged to establish British order and transform the newly established [[Colony of British Columbia (1858–66)|Colony of British Columbia]] into the British Empire's "bulwark in the farthest west"<ref>Donald J. Hauka, McGowan's War, Vancouver: 2003, New Star Books, p. 146.</ref> and "found a second England on the shores of the Pacific".<ref name="Jean Barman p. 71"/> Lytton desired to send to the colony "representatives of the best of British culture, not just a police force", sought men who possessed "courtesy, high breeding and urbane knowledge of the world",<ref>{{Cite book |last=Scott |first=Laura Elaine |title=The Imposition of British Culture as Portrayed in the New Westminster Capital Plan of 1859 to 1862 |year=1983 |publisher=Simon Fraser University |page=13}}</ref> and decided to send Moody, whom the Government considered to be the archetypal "English gentleman and British Officer"<ref>{{Cite book |last=Scott |first=Laura Elaine |title=The Imposition of British Culture as Portrayed in the New Westminster Capital Plan of 1859 to 1862 |year=1983 |publisher=Simon Fraser University |page=19}}</ref> at the head of the [[Royal Engineers, Columbia Detachment]], to whom he wrote an impassioned letter.<ref name="Rambling Recollections">{{Cite book |title=Rambling Recollections, Vol. 1 |last=Drummond |first=Sir Henry |page=272 |chapter=XXIII |year=1908 |publisher=Macmillan and Co., London}}</ref>

The former [[Hudson's Bay Company|HBC]] Fort Dallas at [[Camchin]], the confluence of the [[Thompson River|Thompson]] and the [[Fraser River]]s, was renamed in his honour by Governor Sir [[James Douglas (governor)|James Douglas]] in 1858 as [[Lytton, British Columbia]].<ref>{{Cite news |author=The Canadian Press |title=Toff and prof to duke it out in literary slugfest |url= https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/toff-and-prof-to-duke-it-out-in-literary-slugfest-1.707984 |publisher=[[CBC News]] |date=17 August 2008 |access-date=18 August 2008 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090116064940/http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2008/08/17/writing-bad.html |archive-date=16 January 2009 |url-status=live |author-link=The Canadian Press}}</ref>