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unusual facts about George Lyttelton, 2nd Baron Lyttelton



Elizabeth Douglas-Home, Baroness Home of the Hirsel

Hester Margaret Lyttelton (CBE), daughter of George, 4th Lord Lyttelton.

George Lyttelton, 2nd Baron Lyttelton

Between 1798 and 1800, Lyttelton represented Granard in the Irish House of Commons He succeeded his father as Member of Parliament for Bewdley in 1790 and to his title and his estates in Hagley, Halesowen, and Frankley in 1808.

Hagley Museum and Library

Hagley Hall was the seat of Thomson's patron the Baron Lyttleton, and the poem's description of a sylvan dale is strikingly reminiscent of the Brandywine Valley.

Lucy Cavendish

She was the second daughter of George Lyttelton, 4th Baron Lyttelton and his wife, Mary, née Glynne, whose sister married W. E. Gladstone.

A daughter of George Lyttelton, 4th Baron Lyttelton, she married into another aristocratic family, the Cavendishes, in 1864.

Patience Wright

Other notable subjects she modeled included Lord Lyttelton, Thomas Penn, Admiral Richard Howe, and Charles James Fox.

Richard Lyttelton

He was the younger brother of George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, a leading MP and a friend of William Pitt, and the uncle of Thomas Lyttleton.

Sir John Simeon, 3rd Baronet

Together with Lord Lyttelton, Lord Richard Cavendish and Edward Gibbon Wakefield, he guaranteed ₤15,000 to the Canterbury Association in April 1850, which saved it from financial collapse.

Wychbury Obelisk

Building of obelisk the started in 1747 and was constructed at the same time as George the eldest son and heir of Sir Thomas (and the future 1st Lord Lyttelton), started to refashion Hagley Hall park in the then fashionable Picturesque style.


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