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Lyttelton, Baron (GB, 1756 - 1779)

Creation: let.pat. 29 15 Nov 1756

Extinct: 27 Nov 1779

Family name: Lyttelton

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Arms:

Quarterly of six:  1st and 6th, Argent a Chevron between three Escallops Sable (Lyttelton);  2nd, Argent a Bend cotised Sable a Bordure engrailed Gules bezanty (Westcote);  3rd, Gules a Lion rampant a Bordure engrailed Or (Talbot);  4th, Argent six Fleurs-de-lis three two and one a Chief indented Or (Paston);  5th, France and England quarterly a Bordure gobony Argent and Azure (Beaufort)

Crest:

A Moor's Head in profile couped at the shoulders proper wreathed about the temples Argent and Sable

Supporters:

On either side a Merman proper holding in the exterior hand a Trident Or

Motto:

Ung Dieu, Ung Roy (One God, One King)

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George [Lyttelton], 1st Baron Lyttelton, PC

1st son and heir of Sir Thomas Lyttelton, 4th Bt., of Frankley, co. Worcester, by his wife Christian Temple, sister of Richard [Temple], 1st Viscount Cobham, and 3rd dau. of Sir Richard Temple, 3rd Bt., of Stowe, co. Buckingham

born

17 Jan 1708/9

mar. (1)

Jun 1742 Lucy Fortescue (b. c. 1718; d. in childbed 19 Jan 1746/7; bur. at Over Arley, co. Stafford; MI at Hagley, co. Worcester), sister of Matthew [Fortescue], 2nd Baron Fortescue, and dau. of Hugh Fortescue, of Filleigh, co. Devon, by his second wife Hon Lucy Aylmer, 2nd dau. of Matthew [Aylmer], 1st Baron Aylmer

children by first wife

1. Hon Thomas Lyttelton, later 2nd Baron Lyttelton

1. Hon Lucy Lyttelton (b. 13 Mar 1742/3;  d. 20 May 1783;  bur. at Over Arley, co. Stafford), mar. 10 May 1767 Arthur [Annesley], 1st Earl of Mountnorris, and had issue

mar. (2)

10 Aug 1749 Elizabeth Rich (b. c. 1716;  dsp. 17 Sep 1795), dau. of Field Marshal Sir Robert Rich, 4th Bt., of Roos Hall, co. Suffolk, by his wife Elizabeth Griffith, dau. and cohrss. of Col Edward Griffith, Clerk to the Board of Green Cloth

died

22 Aug 1773 (bur. at Hagley, co. Worcester)

created

18 Nov 1756 Baron Lyttelton, of Frankley in the County of Worcester

suc. by

son by first wife

note

Member of Parliament (Whig) for Okehampton 1735-56;  Principal Secretary to the Prince of Wales 1737-44;  FRS 1743/4;  a Lord of the Treasury 1744-54;  suc. his father as 5th Baronet, styled "of Frankley, co. Worcester" 14 Sep 1751;  a Trustee of the British Museum 1753-73;  Privy Councillor 1754;  Cofferor of the Household 1754-55;  Chancellor of the Exchequer and a Commissioner of the Treasury 1755-56;  FSA

Thomas [Lyttelton], 2nd Baron Lyttelton, PC

born

30 Jan 1743/4

mar.

26 Jun 1772 Apphia Peach (bapt. 15 May 1743; widow of Col Joseph Peach, Governor of Calcutta; d. 9 Apr 1840), 2nd dau. of Broome Witts, Receiver-General of Land Tax in Oxfordshire, of Chipping Norton, co. Oxford

died

s.p. 27 Nov 1779

note

travelled on the Continent 1763-65; Member of Parliament (Whig) for Bewdley 1768-69; Privy Councillor 1775; Chief Justice in Eyre North of Trent 1775-79

On the death of the 2nd Baron Lyttelton the Barony of Lyttelton became extinct and the Baronetcy passed to his uncle, William Henry [Lyttelton], 1st Baron Westcote, who was created Baron Lyttelton on 13 Aug 1794.

 First written 14 Sep 2012

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