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See also:LYTTELTON, See also:GEORGE LYTTELTON, 1ST See also:BARON (17o9-1773) , See also:English statesman and See also:man of letters, See also:born at Hagley, See also:Worcestershire, was a descendant of the See also:great jurist See also:Sir See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Littleton (q.v.). He was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Lyttelton, 4th See also:hart. (d. 1751), who at the revolution of 1688 and during the following reign was one of the ablest Whig debaters of the See also:House of See also:Commons.' Lyttelton was educated at See also:Eton and See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, and in 1728 set out on the See also:grand tour, spending considerable periods at See also:Paris and See also:Rome. On his return to See also:England he sat in See also:parliament for See also:Okehampton, See also:Devonshire, beginning public See also:life in the same See also:year with See also:Pitt. From 1744 to 1754 he held the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of a See also:lord See also:commissioner of the See also:treasury. In 1755 he succeeded See also:Legge as See also:chancellor of the See also:exchequer, but in 1756 he quitted office, being raised to the See also:peerage as Baron Lyttelton, of Frankley, in the See also:county of See also:Worcester. In the See also:political crisis of 1765, before the formation of the See also:Rockingham See also:administration, it was suggested that he might be placed at the See also:head of the treasury, but he declined to take See also:part in any such See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme. The closing years of his life were devoted chiefly to See also:literary pursuits. He died on the 22nd of See also:August 1773.
Lyttelton's earliest publication (1735), Letters from a See also:Persian in England to his Friend at Ispahan, appeared anonymously. Much greater celebrity was achieved by his Observations on the See also:Conversion and Apostleship of St See also:Paul, also See also:anonymous, published in 1747. It takes the See also:form of'a See also:letter to See also:- GILBERT
- GILBERT (KINGSMILL) ISLANDS
- GILBERT (or GYLBERDE), WILLIAM (1544-1603)
- GILBERT, ALFRED (1854– )
- GILBERT, ANN (1821-1904)
- GILBERT, GROVE KARL (1843– )
- GILBERT, J
- GILBERT, JOHN (1810-1889)
- GILBERT, MARIE DOLORES ELIZA ROSANNA [" LOLA MONTEZ "] (1818-1861)
- GILBERT, NICOLAS JOSEPH LAURENT (1751–1780)
- GILBERT, SIR HUMPHREY (c. 1539-1583)
- GILBERT, SIR JOSEPH HENRY (1817-1901)
- GILBERT, SIR WILLIAM SCHWENK (1836– )
Gilbert See also:West, and is designed to show that St Paul's conversion is of itself a sufficient demonstration of the divine See also:character of See also:Christianity. Dr See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
Johnson regarded the See also:work as one " to which infidelity has never been able to fabricate a specious See also:answer." Lord Lyttelton's Dialogues of the Dead, a creditable performance, though hardly rivalling either See also:Lucian or See also:Landor, appeared in 176o. His See also:History of See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry II. (1767-1771), the See also:fruit of twenty years' Tabour, is not now cited as an authority, but Le painstaking and See also:fair. Lyttelton was also a writer of See also:verse; his Monody on his wife's See also:death has been praised by See also:- GRAY
- GRAY (or GREY), WALTER DE (d. 1255)
- GRAY, ASA (1810-1888)
- GRAY, DAVID (1838-1861)
- GRAY, ELISHA (1835-1901)
- GRAY, HENRY PETERS (1819-18/7)
- GRAY, HORACE (1828–1902)
- GRAY, JOHN DE (d. 1214)
- GRAY, JOHN EDWARD (1800–1875)
- GRAY, PATRICK GRAY, 6TH BARON (d. 1612)
- GRAY, ROBERT (1809-1872)
- GRAY, SIR THOMAS (d. c. 1369)
- GRAY, THOMAS (1716-1771)
Gray for its elegiac tenderness, and his See also:Prologue to the See also:Coriolanus of his friend See also:Thomson shows genuine feeling. He was also the author of the well-known See also:stanza in the See also:Castle of Indolence, in which the poet himself is described. A See also:complete collection of the See also:Works of Lord Lyttelton was published by his See also:nephew, G. E. See also:Ayscough in 1774.
His son THOMAS (1744-1779), who succeeded as 2nd baron, played some part in the political life of his See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, but his loose and prodigal habits were notorious, and he is known, in distinction to his See also:father " the See also:good lord," as the wicked Lord Lyttelton. He See also:left no lawful issue, and the See also:barony became See also:extinct; but it was revived in 1794 in the See also:person of his See also:uncle See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM HENRY, 1st baron of the new creation (1724-1808), who was See also:governor of S. Carolina and later of See also:Jamaica, and See also:ambassador to See also: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 See also:fine See also:scholar, and See also:brother-in-See also:law of W. E. See also:Gladstone, having married See also:Miss See also:Mary Glynne. He did important work in educational and poor law reform. He had eight sons, of whom the eldest, See also:CHARLES GEORGE (b. 1842), became 5th baron, and in
' Sir Thomas (or Thomas de) Littleton, the jurist, had three sons, William, See also:Richard and- Thomas. From the first, William, was descended Sir Thomas Lyttelton, 1st hart. of Frankley (1596-165o), whose sons were Sir Henry, and hart. (d. 1693), and Sir Charles, 3rd See also:bart. (1629-1716), governor of Jamaica. The latter's son was Sir Thomas, 4th hart., above mentioned, who was also the father of Charles Lyttelton (1714-1768), See also:bishop of See also:Carlisle, and See also:president of the Society of Antiquaries. The male descendants of the second, Richard, died out with Sir See also:Edward Littleton, hart., of Pillaton, See also:Staffordshire, in 1812, but the latter's grandnephew, Edward See also:John Walhouse (1791-1863) of See also:Hatherton, took the estates by will and also the name of Littleton, and was created 1st Baron Hatherton in 1835; he was See also:chief secretary for See also:Ireland (1833-1834). From Thomas, the third son, was descended, in one See also:line, Edward, Lord Littleton, of Munslow (1589-1645), See also:recorder of See also:London, chief See also:justice of the See also:common pleas, and eventually lord keeper; and in another line, the baronets of Stoke St Milborough, See also:Shropshire, of whom the best known and last was Sir Thomas Littleton, 3rd bart. (1647-1710), See also:speaker of the House of Commons (1698-1700), and treasurer of the See also:navy.1889 succeeded, by the death of the 3rd See also:duke of See also:- BUCKINGHAM
- BUCKINGHAM, EARLS, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- BUCKINGHAM, FIRST DUKE
- BUCKINGHAM, GEORGE VILLIERS, 1ST DUKE 0E1
- BUCKINGHAM, GEORGE VILLIERS, 2ND DUKE 0E1 (1628-1687)
- BUCKINGHAM, HENRY STAFFORD, 2ND DUKE OF3 (1454-1483)
- BUCKINGHAM, JAMES SILK (1786-1855)
Buckingham and See also:Chandos, to the viscounty of See also:COBHAM, in which See also:title the barony of Lyttelton is now merged. Other distinguished sons were See also:Arthur See also:Temple Lyttelton (d. 1903), See also:warden of See also:Selwyn See also:College, See also:Cambridge, and bishop-See also:suffragan of See also:Southampton; Edward Lyttelton (b. 1855), headmaster of Haileybury (189o-1905) and then of Eton; and See also:Alfred Lyttelton (b. 1857), secretary of See also:state for the colonies (1903-1906). It was a See also:family of well-known cricketers, Alfred being in his See also:day the best wicket-keeper in England as well as a fine See also:tennis player.
For the 1st baron see Sir R. See also:Phillimore's See also:Memoirs and See also:Correspondence of Lord Lyttelton, 1734-1773 (2 vols., 1845).
End of Article: LYTTELTON, GEORGE LYTTELTON, 1ST BARON (17o9-1773)
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