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4 unusual facts about Lyttelton


Anderson Icefalls

Named by the British Antarctic Expedition probably for Mr. Anderson of the firm, John Anderson and Sons, Engineers, who owned Lyttelton Foundry, and took great interest in the expedition.

Delaney Davidson

Delaney Davidson born in 1972, his hometown is Lyttelton, New Zealand.

Henry Wigram

Together with his brother, William Arthur Wigram, Henry bought a malthouse and brickworks business in the Heathcote Valley between Christchurch and Lyttelton.

Sarah-Jane and Anna Flannagan

The newspaper accounts also recorded the subsequent determination that Anna Flannagan was experiencing mental illness and needed to be admitted to Sunnyside Hospital from Lyttelton Gaol in 1892, as well as that of the appeal to William Onslow, 4th Earl of Onslow (the Governor General of New Zealand) for clemency in parliamentary official records, and a subsequent petition that requested the release of Anna Flannagan from Sunnyside in 1894.


Ayub Khan-Din

In 2007 Rafta, Rafta..., a play Kahn-Din wrote, opened at the Lyttelton stage of the Royal National Theatre in London.

Bexley, New Zealand

Other recent changes include the linking of Anzac Drive and Bexley Road to complete the Christchurch East Ring Road to the port of Lyttelton.

Castle in Hagley Park

The building of the castle (and another folly called the rotunda), was started in 1747 while Sir Thomas Lyttelton was still alive (he died in 1751) so he was not opposed to the modernisation of his park with suitable fashionable ornamental follies, but the credit for its creation is usually given to his son and heir Gorge Lyttelton (the future 1st Lord Lyttelton).

Churchill war ministry

Richard Gardiner Casey (a member of the Australian Parliament) succeeds Oliver Lyttelton as Minister Resident in the Middle East.

Constitution of Nigeria

The constitutions enacted during this period were those of 1913 (which came into effect on 1 January 1914), 1922, 1946, 1951 (the Macpherson constitution), and 1954 (the Lyttelton constitution).

Elizabeth Douglas-Home, Baroness Home of the Hirsel

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

Ernst L. Freud

He secured a number of commissions for private houses and blocks of flats around Hampstead including the notable Frognal Close in 1938, Belvedere Court, Lyttelton Road and a consulting room for Melanie Klein.

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.

Henry Guest

In 1911, he married Honourable Frances Lyttelton (1885–1918), daughter of the 8th Viscount Cobham.

Laurenson

George Laurenson (1857–1913) was a New Zealand Member of Parliament for Lyttelton in the South Island.

Leg before wicket

Lyttelton's brother, Robert, supported the alteration and campaigned for the rest of his life to have the lbw law altered.

Lyttelton Road Tunnel Administration Building

The Lyttelton Road Tunnel Administration Building was built in the mid-1960s as an operational building for the Lyttelton road tunnel in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Rail transport in Christchurch

Manufactured imports were distributed mainly from Christchurch and Dunedin, with agricultural produce exported from Port Chalmers, Oamaru, Timaru and Lyttelton.

Scenes from an Execution

While a fringe production was staged in 2007 at the Hackney Empire, the play was later revived in 2012 by the National Theatre on its Lyttelton stage.

Sir Thomas Lyttelton, 1st Baronet

Sir Thomas Lyttelton, 1st Baronet (1593 – 22 February 1650) was the eldest son of John Lyttelton and inherited the family estates in Frankley, Halesowen, Hagley, and Upper Arley from his mother, Meriel, the daughter of Sir Thomas Bromley, Lord Chancellor of England.

Stechford Baptist Church

All of the existing church buildings within Stechford are within this triangle: Stechford Methodist (closed for services from 2005) is on Lyttelton Road, All Saints is on Albert Road, and Corpus Christi straddles Albert and Lyttelton Roads.

Thomas Lyttelton

Thomas Lyttelton, 2nd Baron Lyttelton (1744–1779), British MP for Bewdley, 1768 and profligate, dubbed "the wicked Lord Lyttelton" and "bad Lord Lyttelton"

William Lyttelton, 3rd Baron Lyttelton

Sydney Smith's Letters of Peter Plymley were for a time ascribed to Lyttelton before their authorship was known.

Wychbury Obelisk

The obelisk was commissioned by Sir Richard Lyttelton, a son of the elderly Sir Thomas Lyttelton, the owner of the nearby Hagley Hall.


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