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George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, PC (17 January 1709 – 22 August 1773), known between 1751 and 1756 as Sir George Lyttelton, 5th Baronet, was a British statesman. As an author himself, he was also a supporter of other writers and as a patron of the arts made an important contribution to the development of 18th-century landscape design .
It was erected by Admiral Tom Smith, a half brother of the first Lord Lyttelton, in the mid-18 th century. It is said to be like the inhabitants of Hagley – “stuck up for no reason and not quite straight”.
Aug 18, 2024 · George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton was a British Whig statesman and writer, patron of novelist Henry Fielding and poet James Thomson. The son of a prominent Whig family, Lyttelton was an early political associate of his brother-in-law, William Pitt (later Earl of Chatham), in the so-called Boy.
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Oct 30, 2022 · Lyttelton, who is known as ‘the good Lord Lyttelton,’ was an amiable, absent-minded man, of unimpeachable integrity and benevolent character, with strong religious convictions and respectable talents.
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.
George Lyttelton, an early patron of Wilson, was a politician and talented scholar, educated at Eton College and at Christ Church, Oxford and tutored by Dr Francis Ayscough. He was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Lyttelton , 4th baronet (1685-1751), the Whig owner of Hagley Hall, Worcestershire and his wife, Christian, sister of Richard Temple ...
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.
