LYTH, John. b. York 13 March 1821; Wesleyan Methodist minister 1843; at Gloucester 1847–9, at Nottingham 1851–4, 1877–80, at Halifax 1854–7, at Liverpool 1868–71, at Sheffield 1871–4, at Hull 1874–7, at York 1883 to death; the first Wesleyan missionary in Germany, at Winnenden, Würtemberg 1859–65; D.D.; author of Wild Flowers 1843; Die Zionsharfe, a collection of spiritual songs 1863; Der Sontags-Gast, a periodical 3 vols. 1863–5; Kleine Lieder fur kleine Leute 1864; A homiletical commentary on Isaiah 1867; The homiletical treasury, Romans to Philippians 1869; Glimpses of early Methodism in York 1885. d. Carlton terrace, York, on the anniversary of his birth 13 March 1886.
LYTH, Richard Burdsall. b. York 1810; ed. for medical profession; medical missionary of Wesleyan Methodist soc. to the Friendly and Fiji islands 1836–55; translated portions of Old and New Testament into Fijian language, in which he also composed hymns; established a training institution for native agents at Lakemba, Fiji; governor of Wesleyan coll. Auckland, New Zealand 1855–58; Wesl. minister Gibraltar 1869–74. d. Fulford barracks, Yorkshire 27 Feb. 1887.
LYTHGOE, Thomas. b. Manchester 1832; inspector of Metropolitan gas co.; an aeronaut 1850 to death, making 405 successful ascents; the first person to make an ascent from the crystal palace about 1860. d. Hertford, April 1893.
LYTTELTON, George William Lyttelton, 4 Baron (eld. son of 3 baron Lyttelton 1782–1837). b. Saville row, London 31 March 1817; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., chancellor’s medallist and bracketed senior classic 1838, B.A. and M.A. 1838, LL.D. 1862; D.C.L. Oxf. 1870; lord lieut. of Worcs. 7 Nov. 1839 to death; principal of Queen’s coll. Birmingham 1845; the first pres. of Birmingham and midland institute 1853; a founder of Diocesan training college for schoolmasters at Saltley opened 1852, pres. many years; under secretary of state for the colonies Jany. to July 1846; chairman of the Canterbury Association 1849 which founded province of Canterbury, New Zealand 1850, the seaport of Lyttelton near Christchurch, N.Z. was called after him; a public schools inquiry comr. 1861; chief comr. of endowed schools 1869–74; F.R.S. 30 April 1840; chairman of Worcester cathedral restoration committee; P.C. 15 Feb. 1869; K.C.M.G. 30 June 1869; pres. of British chess association some years; published with W. E. Gladstone a volume of translations into Greek and Latin entitled Ex voto communi in memoriam duplicum nuptiarum viii Kal. Aug. MDCCCXXXIX; edited several of his father’s works and was author of The four Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles with notes 1856; New Zealand and the Canterbury colony 1859; The final court of appeal in causes affecting the doctrine of the church of England 1864; Ephemera Series 1, 2, 1865–72; Two lectures on a visit to the Canterbury colony 1868; committed suicide by jumping out of window at 18 Park crescent, London 19 April 1876. bur. Hagley churchyard 22 April. British Medical Journal 29 April 1876 pp. 542–3; I.L.N. xxvii 44 (1855), portrait, lxviii 421, 430 (1876), portrait; Graphic, xiii 416 (1876), portrait; Walford’s Representative men (1868), portrait 12; Illust. Midland news, i 61 (1869), portrait.
LYTTELTON, Spencer (brother of the preceding). b. Saville row, London 19 June 1818; served some years in royal navy; ensign Scots fusilier guards 24 May 1839, retired 6 Aug. 1841; attached to legation at St. Petersburg 27 Aug. 1847; marshal of ceremonies to the Queen 1 Jany. 1847 to Jany. 1877 when he resigned. d. 11 Eaton terrace, London 4 Feb. 1889.
LYTTELTON, William Henry (brother of 4 baron Lyttelton 1817–76). b. 3 April 1820; ed. at Winchester and Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1841; C. of Kettering, Northamptonshire 1843–5; R. of Hagley, Worcs. 1847 to death; hon. canon of Worcester 4 Nov. 1850 to 1880; canon of Gloucester 1880 to death; edited Forms of praise and prayer in the manner of offices. Oxford 1869; Scripture revelations of the life after death 1875, 4 ed. 1893; translated from the French of Frédéric Godet, Studies on the Old Testament, 2 ed. 1882; Lectures in defence of the christian faith 1881, 2 ed. 1883; and from the French of Félix Bovet, Egypt, Palestine and Phœnicia, a visit to sacred lands 1882. d. Malvern 24 July 1884.
LYTTON, Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1 Baron (youngest son of Wm. Earle Bulwer of Heydon hall, Norfolk, general 1757–1807). b. 31 Baker st. London 25 May 1803; ed. at Rottingdean, Ealing and Trin. coll. and Trin. hall Camb., chancellor’s medallist 1825; B.A. 1826, M.A. 1835, hon. LL.D. 1864; hon. LL.D. Oxf. 1853; purchased an ensigncy in the army 19 Oct. 1825, placed on h.p. 27 July 1826, sold out 25 Jany. 1829; edited the New Monthly Mag. Nov. 1831 to 1832; M.P. St. Ives, Hunts. 1831–2; M.P. Lincoln 1832–41; contested city of Lincoln 1841 and 1847; M.P. Herts. 1852–66; his plays The duchess de la Vallière produced 4 Jany. 1837; The Lady of Lyons or love and pride 15 Feb. 1838; Richelieu or the conspiracy 7 March 1839, all 3 at Covent Garden; The sea captain or the birthright, produced at Haymarket 31 Oct. 1839, revived at Lyceum as The rightful heir 3 Oct. 1868; Money, produced at Haymarket 8 Dec. 1840, which ran for unprecedented number of 80 nights; Not so bad as we seem, performed by Charles Dickens’s amateur company at duke of Devonshire’s house in London 27 May 1851; created baronet 18 July 1838; assumed surname of Lytton by r.l. 10 Feb. 1844; secretary of state for the colonies 31 May 1858 to 18 June 1859, new colony of British Columbia organised 1858, Queensland separated from New South Wales 1859, a town in each colony is named Lytton after him; lord rector of Glasgow univ. 1856 and 1858; created baron Lytton of Knebworth, Herts. 14 July 1866; P.C. 5 June 1858; G.C.M.G. 15 Jany. 1870; author of Ismael, an Oriental tale with other poems 1820; Pelham, or the adventures of a gentleman 3 vols. 1828, anon.; Paul Clifford. By E.L.B. 3 vols. 1830; The pilgrims of the Rhine 1834, anon.; The last days of Pompeii 3 vols. 1834; Rienzi, the last of the tribunes 3 vols. 1835; Athens, its rise and fall 2 vols. 1837; Night and morning 3 vols. 1841; Zanoni 3 vols. 1842; Lucretia or the children of night 1846, anon.; King Arthur, a poem 1848; The Caxtons 3 vols. 1849; My Novel. By Pisistratus Caxton 4 vols. 1853; What will he do with it. By P. Caxton 4 vols. 1859; The coming race 1871, anon., and about 40 other books; a library edition of his novels appeared in 43 vols. 1859–63. d. Argyll lodge, Torquay 18 Jany. 1873. bur. St. Edmund’s chapel, Westminster abbey 25 Jany. Life, letters and literary remains. By his Son 2 vols. (1883), 2 portraits; Lord Lytton, a biography by Thomson Cooper (1873); The Derby ministry. By Mark Rochester i.e. Charles Kent (1858) 143–94; Illustrated Review 15 June 1871 pp. 551–5, portrait; Cartoon Portraits (1873) 1–5, portrait; J. H. Friswell’s Modern men of letters (1870) 243–56; R. H. Horne’s New spirit of the age, ii 189–214 (1844), portrait; J. C. Jeaffreson’s Novels and novelists, ii 198–220 (1858); Madden’s Literary life of Countess of Blessington, iii 27–63 (1855); Graphic, vii 70, 97, 100 (1873), 2 portraits.
Note.—He gave the ground near Stevenage, Herts., for an institute for retired members of the Guild of Literature and Art 1851, one side of the building consisting of 13 dwellings was erected and inaugurated 29 July 1865 but the scheme was a failure. He is satirised by Thackeray in his Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush as Mistawedward Lytton Bulwig. The works of W. M. Thackeray, xii 404–14 (1869).
LYTTON, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, 1 Earl of (only son of the preceding). b. 36 Hertford st. London 8 Nov. 1831; ed. at Harrow and Bonn; attaché at Washington 1849, at Florence 1852, at Paris 1854, at the Hague 1856, at St. Petersburg 1858, at Constantinople 1858, at Vienna 1859; secretary of legation at Copenhagen 1863, at Athens 1864, at Lisbon 1865; secretary to embassy at Madrid 1868, at Vienna 1868, at Constantinople 1870, at Paris 1872–4; minister at Lisbon 26 Nov. 1874 to 1 March 1876; succeeded as 2 baron Lytton 18 Jany. 1873; declined governorship of Malta, Jany. 1875; viceroy of India 12 Feb. 1876 to 27 April 1880, installed viceroy 12 April 1876; the Queen was proclaimed empress of India at Delhi 1 Jany. 1877; G.C.S.I. 12 April 1876, grand master of the order 1876–80; G.C.B. 1 Jany. 1878; created viscount Knebworth of Knebworth and earl of Lytton 26 April 1880; lord rector of Glasgow univ. 1887; ambassador at Paris 1 Nov. 1887 to death; edited some of his father’s works and wrote a continuation to his Autobiography 1883; author of The ring of Amasis, a romance 2 vols. 1863; Chronicles and characters 2 vols. 1868; Orval or the fool of time 1869; Julian Fane, a memoir 1871; Fables in song 2 vols. 1874; King Poppy, a story without end. By Horatio 1875; Glenaveril 1885; After Paradise, or legends of exile 1887; and under the pseudonym of Owen Meredith, Clytemnestra 1855; The Wanderer 1859; Serbski Pesme or national songs of Servia 1861; Lucile 1860; The poetical works of Owen Meredith, new ed. 2 vols. 1867; published with J. C. H. Fane under pseudonyms of Neville Temple and Edward Trevor, Tannhaüser, or the battle of the bards, a poem 1861. d. at the British embassy, Paris 24 Nov. 1891. bur. in mausoleum near Knebworth church 1 Dec. T. H. S. Escott’s Pillars of the empire (1879) 189–96; C. Brown’s Life of Beaconsfield, ii 28 (1882), portrait; Army and navy mag. iii 99 (1882), portrait; Dublin Univ. Mag. June 1876 pp. 654–68, portrait; Black and White 28 Nov. 1891 p. 707, portrait.
LYTTON, Rosina Anne Doyle (youngest dau. of Francis Massy Wheeler of Lizzard Connel, Limerick). b. Ballywhire near Limerick 2 Nov. 1802; ed. in Kensington, London; her parents having separated, she lived with her mother in Guernsey and Caen; m. at St. James’s ch. Piccadilly 29 Aug. 1827 Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer afterwards 1 baron Lytton, they executed a deed of separation 19 April 1836 her allowance being £400 per annum, which was increased to £500 by deed dated 1 Oct. 1858; at the hustings at Hertford she exposed her husband’s cruel treatment of her 8 June 1858; confined by her husband in R. G. Hill’s lunatic asylum, Inverness lodge, Brentford 22 June to 17 July 1858; lived at Taunton 1856–74, at Upper Sydenham 1875 to death; author of Cheveley, the man of honour 3 vols. 1839, reprinted as Lady Cheveley or the woman of honour 1839; The budget of the Bubble family 3 vols. 1840; Bianca Capello, an historical romance 3 vols. 1842; The prince-duke and the page. Ed. by Lady L. Bulwer 3 vols. 1841; Memoirs of a Muscovite. Ed. by Lady Lytton 3 vols. 1844; The peer’s daughters 3 vols. 1849; Miriam Sedley, or the tares and the wheat 3 vols. 1851; The school for husbands, or Molière’s Life and times 3 vols. 1852; Behind the scenes 3 vols. 1854; Very successful 3 vols. 1856; Mauleverer’s divorce, a story of women’s wrongs 3 vols. 1857; The world and his wife, a novel 3 vols. 1858; The household fairy 1870; Where there’s a will there’s a way 1871, anon.; Shells from the sands of time 1876. d. Glenômera, Upper Sydenham 12 March 1882. bur. churchyard of St. John the Evangelist, Shirley, Surrey. Life of Rosina, lady Lytton. By Louisa Devey (1887), portrait; Letters of lord Lytton to lady Lytton. Edited by L. Devey (1884), this book was suppressed by lord Lytton’s successor 12 Jany. 1885; Thomas Mulock’s British lunatic asylums (1858) 47–9; Lady Bulwer Lytton’s Appeal to the justice and charity of the English public (1857), 3 ed. (1857); The life of E. B. lord Lytton, by his son, ii 33 etc.; You have heard of them. By Q. (1854), 31–6; Daily News 16 March 1882 p. 5.