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LYSLE — LYTTKLTON. 185 G.C.B., 21 Jan. 1S62 ; P.C., 1805 ; D.C.L. of Oxford, 21 Jan. 1865 ; Ambassador to Constantinople, 1S65-67, and (for 20 years) Ambassador to Paris (both to the Emperor and the Republic) from July 1S07 till (a short time before his death) Oct. 1887. G.C.M.G., 24 May 1879. He was cr., 24 Nov. 1881, VISCOUNT LYONS OF CHIUSTCHUHCH, co. Southampton. He. who was received into the Roman Catholic church, Nov. 1887, d. num., 5 Dec. 1887, at Norfolk House, St. James' square (the residence of his nephew, the Duke of Norfolk), aged 70, when all his honours became extinct. Will d.it. 28 May 18S6, pr. March 1S8S, under £115,000. LYSLE or LYSLEY. boo Lisle. LYTTELTON OF FRANK LEY. Barony. 1. The Rt. Hon. Sin George Lyttelton, Bart., of I 175G Frankley, co. Worcester, s. and h. of Sir Thomas Lyttelton, 4th Bart., by Christian, sister of Richard (Temple), Viscount Cobmam (so cr. 23 May 1718, with a spec. rem. in his said sister's favour), da. of Sir Richard Temple, Hart., of Stowe, was bap. 17 Jan. 1708/9, at St. James' Westm. ; mat. at Oxford (Ch. Oh.), 11 Feb. 1725/6; M.P. for Okehampton, 1735-56: Prill. Sec. to the Prince of Wales, 1737 ; a Lord of the Treasury, 1744-54 ; sue. to the Baronetcy (cr. 25 July 161S), on the death of his father (aged 65) 14 Sep. 1751 ; l'.C, 1751 ; Cofferer of the Household, 1754-5 ; Chancellor of the Exchequer anil one of the Commissioners of the Treasury, Nov. 1755 to Nov. 1756, being cr., 18 Nov. 1756, BARON LYTTELTON OF FRANKLEY, co. Worcester ; F.S.A. He m. firstly, June 1712, at St. Geo. Han. sq„(*) Lucy, sister of Matthew, 2d Baron Foutescuk of Castle Hill, da. of Hugh Foiitkscue, of Filleigh, co. Devon, by his second wife, Lucy, da. of Matthew (Aylmkr), 1st Baron Ayl.mek of Balrath [I.] She (/. 19 Jan. 1746/7, aged 29, and was bur. at Over Arlcy, co. Stafford, but her M.I. is at Hagley, co. Worcester. He m. secondly, 10 Aug. 1749, in her father's house at Windsor, Elizabeth (then aged 33), da. of Field Marshal Sir Robert Ricn, •1th Bart., of Rosshall, Suffolk, by (— ), da. and coheir of Col. (— ) Griffin, Clerk to the Board of Green Cloth. He d. 22 Aug. 1773,( b ) aged 64, at Hagley, and was bur. there. M.I. Will pr. Nov. 1773. His widow d. s.p., 17 Sep. 1795.(<=) Will pr. Sep. 1795. II. 1773, 2. Thomas (Lyttelton), Baron Lyttelton of Fbank- to ley, and also a Baronet, only s. and h., by first wife, b. 30 Jan. 1779. 1713/1, and bap. at St. James' Westm. ; mat. at Oxford (Ch. Ch.), 7 Nov. 1761 ; M.P. for Bewdley, 1768, till unseated in 1769 ; sue to the peerage, 22 Aug. 1773 ; P.C., 1775 ; Chief Justice of Eyre north of Trent. He m., 26 June 1772, at Hales Owen, co. Stafford, Apphia, widow of Joseph Peach, Governor of Calcutta, 2d da. of Broome Witts, of Chipping Norton, Oxon. He (/. s.p., 27 Nov. 1779, aged 35, at Pitt Place, Epsom, Surrey. («) Will pr. Jau. 1780. His widow who was bap. 15 May 1743, at Chipping Norton, Oxon, and who was well known for her many charities, d. (00 years later) 9 April 1840, at Great Malvern, aged 96. Will pr. May 1810. (■) The marriage is stated to have taken place in that parish, but no entry thereof appears in the parish register. ( b ) A long account of him and especially of his illness is in " Collins," vol. viii, pp. 352—357. He was an author of some note, his "Reign of Henry U." being the best known of his many publications. ( c ) " Her indiscretion made an unhappy household and she soon separated from her husband." " With good talents [she] was, I fear, little esteemed by any one tho' had been pretty," writes Mrs. Piozzi. See notes to Wraxall's " Memoirs " (edit. 1884), vol. i, p. 228. ( d ) He had supported the North Ministry till April 1779 (a few months before his death) when he seceded on the petition for removing Lord Sandwich from the Admiralty. His life appears to have been one that alternated between " the most extravagant gaiety and the deepest despair " [" Collins," vol. viii, pp. 352—357] and the vision, which he had the day before his death, of a lady who warned him of his own death, forms one of the most famous of all " Ghost-stories." See full account of this story in Wraxall's " Memoirs " (edit. 1884), vol. i, pp. 226—230.