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unusual facts about Alfred Lyttelton


W. G. Grace in the 1878 English cricket season

Grace scored 90, his highest score of the season so far, and was well supported by Alfred and Edward Lyttelton.


Edith Lyttelton

The daughter of Archibald Balfour, a London businessman and merchant in Russia, Edith Balfour was educated privately and moved in the aristocratic circle of friends known as the "Souls", which included A. J. Balfour, George Curzon, Margot Tennant (later Asquith), and Alfred Lyttelton, whom she married at Bordighera on the Italian Riviera in April 1892 after the death of his first wife.

Gerald Balfour, 2nd Earl of Balfour

From 1901 Balfour lived at Fisher's Hill House, a large home which he had built by Lutyens in Hook Heath, Woking, Surrey, also living in the rural hamlet by 1911 were Alfred Lyttelton (Lib. U.), Secretary of State for the Colonies (1903-1905) who married into his wider family and the Duke of Sutherland.

St John's, Woking

In 1911 also living in the rural hamlet were Alfred Lyttelton (Lib. U.), Secretary of State for the Colonies (1903-1905) and the Duke of Sutherland.


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