riam duplicum nuptiarum viii. Kal. Aug. mdcccxxxix.’ He was also a good chess-player, and was for some years president of the British Chess Association.
By his first wife Lyttelton had eight sons and four daughters. Several of the sons were distinguished as cricketers. In 1867 an eleven of Lytteltons, headed by the fourth lord, defeated Bromsgrove Grammar School by ten wickets. The eldest son, Charles George, fifth baron Lyttelton, also succeeded in 1889 to the viscounty of Cobham. The third son, General Sir Neville Reginald Lyttelton, G.C.B., was first military member of army council 1904–7. The fifth son, Arthur Temple (1852–1903), was suffragan bishop of Southampton. The seventh, Edward, became head master of Eton in 1905. The eighth son, Alfred, was secretary of state for the colonies 1903–5. The second daughter, Lucy Caroline, married in 1864 Lord Frederick Charles Cavendish [q. v.]
Lyttelton married secondly in 1869 Sybella Harriet, widow of Humphrey Francis Mildmay, and daughter of George Clive, by whom he had three daughters.
Mr. George Richmond, R.A., made a portrait of him in crayons when quite a young man for Grillion's Club; another, in oils, by the same artist, is at Hagley. A portrait was engraved for the Illustrated London News, 29 April 1876.
[Times, 21, 22, 24, 27, 28 April 1876; Berrow's Worcester Journal, 22, 29 April 1876; Guardian (by Mr. Gladstone), 26 April 1876; Annual Register, 1876, p. 140; Lyte's Eton Coll. pp. 380, 420; Lyttelton's pamphlets in British Museum Library; private information.]
LYTTELTON, JAMES (d. 1723), vice-admiral. [See Littleton.]
LYTTELTON, Sir THOMAS (1402– 1481), judge and legal author. [See Littleton.]
LYTTELTON, Sir THOMAS (1596–1650), royalist, born in 1596, was eldest son of John Lyttelton of Hagley, Worcestershire, by Muriel, daughter of Lord Chancellor Sir Thomas Bromley (Nash, Worcestershire, i. 493). His father, ‘a man,’ according to Bacon, ‘much respected for his wit and valour,’ was implicated in Essex's rebellion in February 1600–1, and, after being convicted of high treason, died in prison. Thomas matriculated at Oxford from Balliol College on 22 June 1610, but supplicated for the B.A. degree on 2 July 1614 as a member of Broadgates Hall (Foster, Alumni Oxon. 1500–1714, iii. 920). In 1612 he became a student of the Inner Temple, being then seated at Frankley, Worcestershire (Cooke, Inner Temple Students, 1547–1660, p. 202). He was knighted at Whitehall in July 1618, and was created a baronet on the 25th of the same month. He represented Worcester in the parliaments of 1621–2, 1624–5, 1625, 1626, and April–May 1640, and in 1640 served as high sheriff for the county (Commons' Journals, ii. 60). Upon the outbreak of the civil war Lyttelton offered to raise a regiment of foot and a troop of horse for the king. Charles I thereupon invited him to a conference at Shrewsbury in September 1642, and appointed him colonel of the Worcestershire horse and foot (Hist. MSS. Comm. 2nd Rep. p. 36). He was taken prisoner at Bewdley in 1644, and was committed to the Tower, from which he was released on bail by Lord Essex's warrant. But on 29 Nov. 1644 the parliament, from fear of his influence in Worcestershire, ordered his recommittal (Commons' Journals, iii. 709). Meanwhile his house at Frankley had been burnt to the ground by Prince Rupert to make it unavailable to the parliamentary forces. On 6 March 1644 parliament resolved that he be fined 4,000l. for his ‘delinquency’ (ib. iii. 674, iv. 72). In June 1646 he was still a prisoner (ib. iv. 337, 572). He died on 22 Feb. 1649–50, and was buried in Worcester Cathedral. By his wife, Katherine, daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas Crompton of Driffield, Yorkshire, and Hounslow, Middlesex, he had twelve sons and four daughters. His widow died at Areley Hall, Worcestershire, which she had built, in 1666, and was buried beside her husband (Nash, i. 499).
The eldest surviving son, Sir Henry Lyttelton (1624–1693), born in 1624, matriculated from Balliol College, Oxford, on 12 Sept. 1640. He joined the royalists, was taken prisoner at the battle of Worcester on 3 Sept. 1651, and was imprisoned in the Tower till April 1653 on a charge of providing arms without license. In 1655 he was nominated high sheriff of Worcestershire so that he might be further impoverished. From February 1677–8 to July 1679 he was M.P. for Lichfield. Dying without issue on 24 June 1693, he was succeeded in the baronetcy by his brother Charles (1629–1716) [q. v.]
[Sharpe's Peerage; Burke's Peerage, 1891, p. 890; Commons' Journals, i. 869.]
LYTTELTON, Sir THOMAS (1647?– 1710), speaker of the House of Commons, [See Littleton.]
LYTTELTON, THOMAS, second Baron Lyttelton (1744–1779), commonly called the wicked Lord Lyttelton, son of George, first lord Lyttelton [q. v.], by Lucy, daughter of Hugh Fortescue of Filleigh, Devonshire, was born at Hagley, on 30 Jan. 1744. His boyhood was promising, his ‘figure, behaviour, and parts’ were generally admired; he read Milton with delight; he painted, and
