Talk:Baron Lyttelton

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Over the past couple of hours, as I have attempted to work out the family history of the Lytteltons, I have constructed the following family tree to aid me; much information is missing from it as it stands, but it my prove useful, so I am putting it here...

Sir Thomas Lyttelton, 1st Baronet Lyttelton of Frankley ? ? 1596 ? ? 1650 m ? ? ? ?  |   Sir Henry Lyttelton, 2nd Baronet Lyttelton of Frankley ? ? ?    ? ? 1693     m ? ? ? ?      |       Sir Charles Lyttelton, 3rd Baronet Lyttelton of Frankley, Governor of Jamaica ? ? 1629        ? ? 1716         m ? ? ? ?          |           Sir Thomas Lyttelton, 4th Baronet Lyttelton of Frankley ? ? ?            ? ? 1751             m ? ? ? ?              |               George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton of Frankley [1756] | ? ? 1709 (Hagley Hall, Stourbridge, Worcestershire) | 22 August 1773 (Hagley Hall, Stourbridge, Worcestershire) | m ? ? ? ?              |   |               |   Thomas Lyttelton, 2nd Baron Lyttelton [exitinct] |    ? ? 1744               |     ? ? 1779               |               William Henry Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton of Frankley [1794], Governor of South Carolina, Governor of Jamaica, Ambassador to Portugal ? ? 1724                ? ? 1808                 m ? ? ? Sarah Spencer |                  ? Lyttelton, 2nd Baron Lyttelton | ?                  | ?                   |                   ? Lyttelton, 3rd Baron Lyttelton 1782                    1837                     m ? ? ? ?                      |                       George William Lyttelton, 4th Baron Lyttelton | 31 March 1817 | 19 April 1876 | m 25 July 1839 Mary Glynne |  |                       |   Charles George Lyttelton, 8th Viscount Cobham [1889], 5th Baron Lyttelton |  | 27 October 1842 (Hagley Hall, Stourbridge, Worcestershire                       |   | 9 June 1922 (Hagley Hall, Stourbridge, Worcestershire)                       |   | m 19 October 1878: Mary Susan Caroline Cavendish (-28 Jan 1937)                       |   |   |                       |   |   Maud Mary Lyttelton                       |   |   | 22 July 1880                       |   |   | ?                       |   |   |                       |   |   John Cavendish Lyttelton, 9th Viscount Cobham                       |   |   | 23 October 1881                       |   |   | ?                       |   |   | m 30 June 1908 Violet Yolande Leonard                       |   |   |   |                       |   |   |   Charles John Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham, Governor-General New Zealand                       |   |   |   | 8 August 1909 |  |   |   | ? ? 1977                       |   |   |   | m ? ? ? ?                      |   |   |   |   |                       |   |   |   |   John William Leonard Lyttleton, 11th Viscount Cobham |  |   |   |     ? ? 1943                       |   |   |   |     -                       |   |   |   |                       |   |   |   Meriel Catherine Lyttelton |  |   |   | 1 May 1911 |  |   |   | 19 November 1930 |  |   |   |                       |   |   |   Viola Maud Lyttelton |  |   |   | 10 June 1912 |  |   |   | ? ? 1987 (Car accident) |  |   |   | m 3 December 1946 Robert George Grosvenor, 5th Duke of Westminster |  |   |   |   |                       |   |   |   |   Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster |  |   |   |   |                       |   |   |   |   Jane Meriel Grosvenor |  |   |   |                       |   |   |   Audrey Lavinia Lyttelton |  |   |   | 3 August 1918 |  |   |   | -                       |   |   |   |                       |   |   |   Lavinia Mary Yolande Lyttelton |  |   |     21 August 1921 |  |   |     ?                       |   |   |                       |   |   George William Lyttelton, Assistant Master at Eton |  |   | 6 January 1883 |  |   | 1 May 1962 |  |   | m 3 April 1919 Pamela Marie Adeane |  |   |   |                       |   |   |   Diana Maud Lyttelton |  |   |   | ? ? ?                       |   |   |   | ? ? 1999                       |   |   |   | m 30 April 1957 Alexander Lambert Hood, 7th Viscount Hood Of Whitley |  |   |   |   |                       |   |   |   |   Henry Lyttleton Hood, 8th Viscount Hood Of Whitley |  |   |   |   | ? ? ?                       |   |   |   |   | ? ? ?                       |   |   |   |   | m ? ? ? Flora Susan Casement |  |   |   |   |   |                       |   |   |   |   |   Archibald Lyttelton Samuel Hood |  |   |   |   |   | ? ? ?                       |   |   |   |   |   | ? ? ?                       |   |   |   |   |   |                       |   |   |   |   |   Atticus Michael Alexander Hood |  |   |   |   |     ? ? ?                       |   |   |   |   |     ? ? ?                       |   |   |   |   |                       |   |   |   |   John Samuel Hood |  |   |   |   | ? ? ?                       |   |   |   |   | ? ? ?                       |   |   |   |   | m ? ? ? Melissa Anne Bell |  |   |   |   |   |                       |   |   |   |   |   Gemma Kathryn Hood |  |   |   |   |   | ? ? ?                       |   |   |   |   |   | ? ? ?                       |   |   |   |   |   |                       |   |   |   |   |   Christian Alexander Hood |  |   |   |   |   | ? ? ?                       |   |   |   |   |   | ? ? ?                       |   |   |   |   |   |                       |   |   |   |   |   Samuel Francis Wheeler Hood |  |   |   |   |     ? ? ?                       |   |   |   |   |     ? ? ?                       |   |   |   |   |                           |   |   |   |   James Francis Touzalin Hood |  |   |   |                       |   |   |   Humphrey Lyttelton |  |   |     23 May 1921 |  |   |     -                       |   |   |                       |   |   Frances Henrietta Lyttelton |  |   | 11 June 1885 |  |   | 20 January 1918 |  |   | m 12 July 1911 Henry Charles (Christian) Guest MP                       |   |   |   | |  |   |   John Spencer Churchill Guest |  |   |                       |   |   |                       |   |   Rev. Charles Frederick Lyttelton |  |   | 26 January 1887 |  |   | 3 October 1931 |  |   |                       |   |   Rachel Beatrice Lyttelton |  |   | 21 January 1892 |  |   | ?                       |   |   |                       |   |   Richard Glynne Lyttelton |  |     16 October 1893 |  |     ?                       |   |                       |   Rev. Albert Victor Lyttelton |  | 29 June 1844 |  | 4 April 1928 |  |                       |   Gen. Sir Neville Gerald Lyttelton |  | 28 October 1845 |  | 6 July 1931 |  | m 1 October 1883 Kathleen (Kathrine) Sarah Stuart-Wortley |  |   |                       |   |   Hilda Margaret Lyttelton |  |     13 January 1886 |  |     ?                       |   |     m 23 February 1909 Col Arthur Morton Grenfell |  |       |                       |   |       Mary Hermione Grenfell |  |                       |   George William Spencer Lyttelton JP                       |   | 12 June 1847 |  | 5 December 1913 |  |                       |   Arthur Temple Lyttelton, Bishop of Southhampton |  | 7 January 1852 |  | 19 February 1903 |  |                       |   Robert Henry Lyttelton |  | 18 January 1854 |  | 7 November 1939 |  |                       |   Rev. Edward Lyttelton, Headmaster of Eton |  | 23 July 1855 |  | 26 January 1942 |  |                       |   Alfred Lyttelton |  | 7 February 1857 |  | 5 July 1913 |  | m 21 February 1886 Octavia Laura Tennant |  |   |                       |   |   Alfred Christopher Lyttelton |  |     ? ? 1886                       |   |     ? ? 1888                       |   |                       |   | m 18 Apr 1892 Edith Sophy Balfour JP                       |   |   | |  |   Oliver Lyttelton, 1st Viscount Chandos [1954] |  |   | 15 March 1893 |  |   | ? ? 1972                       |   |   | m 30 Jan 1920 Moira Godolphin Osborne |  |   |   |                       |   |   |   Anthony Alfred Lyttelton, 2nd Viscount Chandos |  |   |   | 23 October 1920 |  |   |   | ? ? 1980                       |   |   |   | m ? ? 1949 Caroline Mary Lascelles |  |   |   |   |                       |   |   |   |   Laura Katherine Lyttelton |  |   |   |   | ? ? 1950                       |   |   |   |   | -                       |   |   |   |   |                       |   |   |   |   Thomas Orlando Lyttelton, 3rd Viscount Chandos |  |   |   |   | 12 February 1953 |  |   |   |   | -                       |   |   |   |   |                       |   |   |   |   Matthew Peregrine Antony Lyttelton |  |   |   |   | 21 April 1956 |  |   |   |   | -                       |   |   |   |   |                       |   |   |   |   Deborah Clare Lyttelton |  |   |   |     ? ? 1963                       |   |   |   |     -                       |   |   |   |                       |   |   |   Rosemary Lyttelton |  |   |   | 30 May 1922 |  |   |   | -                       |   |   |   | m ? ? 1951 Anthony Freskin Charles Hamby Chaplin, 3rd Viscount Chaplin |  |   |   |                       |   |   |   Cpt Julian Lyttelton |  |   |   | 30 August 1923 |  |   |   | ? October 1944 (KIA, Italy) |  |   |   |                       |   |   |   Nicholas Adrian Oliver Lyttelton |  |   |   26 March 1937 |  |   |   ?                       |   |   |   m ? ? 1960 Margaret Hobson |  |   |     |   |                       |   |   |     Celia Melissa Francesca Lyttelton |  |   |     |   | ? ? 1960                       |   |   |     |   | -                       |   |   |     |   |                       |   |   |     Francis Sebastian Jasper Lyttelton |  |   |       ? ? 1967                       |   |   |       -                       |   |   |                       |   |   Anthony George Lyttelton |  |   | 3 June 1900 |  |   | 17 December 1901 |  |   |                       |   |   Mary Frances Lyttelton |  |     ?                       |   |     ?                       |   |                       |   Meriel Sarah Lyttelton |  | ?                       |   | 22 April 1925 |  |                       |   Lucy Caroline Lyttelton |  | ?                       |   | 22 April 1925 |  | m 7 June 1864 Frederick Charles Cavendish MP                       |   | |  Lavinia Lyttelton |  | ?                       |   | 9 October 1939 |  |                       |   Mary Catherine Lyttelton |    ?                       |     21 March 1875 |                      | m 10 Jun 1869 Sybella Harriet CLIVE |  |                       |   Hester Margaret Lyttelton |    26 December 1874 |    ?                       |     m 5 April 1904 Rev. Cyril Argentine Alington, Dean of Durham |      |                       |       Elizabeth Hester Alington |                      Spencer Lyttelton | ? ? 1818                      | ? ? 1889                       | m ? ? ? Henrietta Cornewall |  |                       |   William Henry Cornewall Lyttelton |    ? ? 1849                       |     ? ? 1882                       |                       Rev. William Henry Lyttelton | ?                      | ?                       | m ? ? ? Emily Pepys | m ? ? ? Constance Yorke |                      Caroline Lyttelton | ?                      | ?                       | m ? ? ? Henry Glynne |                      Lavinia Lyttelton

Also, the following is a copy of the 1911 entry for the first 1st Baron: LYTTELTON, GEORGE LYTTELTON, IST BARON (1709-1773), English statesman and man of letters, born at Hagley, Worcestershire, was a descendant of the great jurist Sir Thomas Littleton (q.v.). He was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Lyttelton, 4th bart. (d. 1751), who at the revolution of 1688 and during the following reign was one of the ablest Whig debaters of the House of Commons.1 Lyttelton was educated at Eton and Oxford, and in 1728 set out on the grand tour, spending considerable periods at Paris and Rome. On his return to England he sat in parliament for Okehampton, Devonshire, beginning public life in the same year with Pitt. From 1744 to 1754 he held the office of a lord commissioner of the treasury. In 1755 he succeeded Legge as chancellor of the exchequer, but in 1756 he quitted office, being raised to the peerage as Baron Lyttelton, of Frankley, in the county of Worcester. In the political crisis of 1765, before the formation of the Rockingham administration, it was suggested that he might be placed at the head of the treasury, but he declined to take part in any such scheme. The closing years of his life were devoted chiefly to literary pursuits. He died on the 22nd of August 1773. Lyttelton's earliest publication (1735), Letters from a Persian in England to his Friend at Ispahan, appeared anonymously. Much greater celebrity was achieved by his Observations on the Conversion and Apostleship of St Paul, also anonymous, published in 1747. It takes the form of a letter to Gilbert West, and is designed to show that St Paul's conversion is of itself a sufficient demonstration of the divine character of Christianity. Dr Johnson regarded the work as one " to which infidelity has never been able to fabricate a specious answer." Lord Lyttelton's Dialogues of the Dead, a creditable performance, though hardly rivalling either Lucian or Landor, appeared in 1760. His History of Henry II. (1767-1771), the fruit of twenty years' labor, is not now cited as an authority, but is painstaking and fair. Lyttelton was also a writer of verse; his Monody on his wife's death has been praised by Gray for its elegiac tenderness, and his Prologue to the Coriolanus of his friend Thomson shows genuine feeling. He was also the author of the well-known stanza in the Castle of Indolence, in which the poet himself is described. A complete collection of the Works of Lord Lyttelton was published by his nephew, G. E. Ayscough in 1774. His son THOMAS (1744-1779), who succeeded as 2nd baron, played some part in the political life of his time, but his loose and prodigal habits were notorious, and he is known, in distinction to his father " the good lord," as the wicked Lord Lyttelton. He left no lawful issue, and the barony became extinct; but it was revived in 1794 in the person of his uncle WILLIAM HENRY, ist baron of the new creation (1724-1808), who was governor of S. Carolina and later of Jamaica, and ambassador to Portugal. The new barony went after him to his two sons. The 3rd baron (1782-1837) was succeeded by his son GEORGE WILLIAM LYTTELTON, 4th baron (1817-1876), who was a fine scholar, and brother-in-law of W. E. Gladstone, having married Miss Mary Glynne. He did important work in educational and poor law reform. He had eight sons, of whom the eldest, CHARLES GEORGE (b. 1842), became 5th baron, and in descended Sir Thomas Lyttelton, 1st bart. of Frankley (1596 1650), whose sons were Sir Henry, 2nd bart. (d. 1693), and Sir Charles, 3rd bart. (1629-1716), governor of Jamaica. The latter's son was Sir Thomas, 4th bart., above mentioned, who was also the father of Charles Lyttelton (i 7141768), bishop of Carlisle, and president of the Society of Antiquaries. The male descendants of the second, Richard, died out with Sir Edward Littleton, bart., of Pillaton, Staffordshire, in 1812, but the latter's grandnephew, Edward John Walhouse (1791-1863) of Hatherton, took the estates by will and also the name of Littleton, and was created Ist Baron Hatherton in 1835; he was chief secretary for Ireland (1833-1834). From Thomas, the third son, was descended, in one line, Edward, Lord Littleton, of Munslow (1589-1645), recorder of London, chief justice of the common pleas, and eventually lord keeper; and in another line, the baronets of Stoke St Milborough, Shropshire, of whom the best known and last was Sir Thomas Littleton, grd bart. (1647 1710), speaker of the House of Commons (1698-1700), and treasurer of the navy. 1889 succeeded, by the death of the 3rd duke of Buckingham and Chandos, to the viscounty of COBHAM, in which title the barony of Lyttelton is now merged. Other distinguished sons were Arthur Temple Lyttelton (d. 1903), warden of Selwyn College, Cambridge, and bishop-suffragan of Southampton; Edward Lyttelton (b. 1855), headmaster of Haileybury (1890-1905) and then of Eton; and Alfred Lyttelton (b. 1857), secretary of state for the colonies (1903-1906). It was a family of well-known cricketers, Alfred being in his day the best wicket-keeper in England as well as a fine tennis player. For the ist baron see Sir R. Phillimore's Memoirs and Correspondence of Lord Lyttelton, 1734-1773 (2 vols., 1845).

I have also found references to "Edward Littleton, 1st Lord Lyttelton", who would have been alive around 1641, and "Sir William Lyttelton, First Viscount Lyttelton"; I have not yet worked out whether these people are part of this tree to a sufficient extent to include them, and if so, where and when).

Hope some, none, or more of this is useful... James F. (talk) 21:33, 10 Jan 2004 (UTC)


 * I've added Humphrey Lyttelton in what I presume is the correct place, although the only information I can find concerns Diana Maud Lyttelton, who I assume to be an older sibling of his.
 * James F. (talk) 16:07, 16 Jan 2004 (UTC)


 * And, again, I've updated it, adding the 10th and 11th holders of the Viscountcy of Cobham in (I'm just assuming that the 11th Viscount is the son of the 10th).
 * James F. (talk) 01:35, 25 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Earlier Baron Lyttelton
This article overlooks that there was an earlier peerage of Baron Lyttelton, of Munslow (county Salop), created for judge Edward Littleton (1589-1645) in 1641, which became extinct at his death without male issue. This makes those already mentioned of the second and third creations of the peerage. G.E. Cokayne's 'The Complete Peerage' gives details of the peerage title (heading is 'Littleton of Munslow' - my memory not sure of the spelling) but I do not have it to hand to reference it (the volumes concerned are in a place where entry is restricted due to the pandemic) but other users may have access to bring this in.Cloptonson (talk) 13:32, 19 February 2021 (UTC)