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188 LYTTLETON — LYTTON. 1631 ; Solicitor Gen., 1684-40, being knighted, 6 June 1635 ; Ch. Justice of tbo Common Pleas, Jau. 1639/40 to Jan. 1640/41 ; Lord Kkei-eh, Jan. 1640/1, being raised to the peerage, as above, the next month, ami (tho' the Houses of Pari, voted, 10 Nov. 1643, for a new Great Seal), holding office for the King (whom he followed to York and subsequently to Oxford) till his death in 1615. He was First Commissioner of the Treasury in 1641 and again in March 1613. He, in May 1644, raised a regiment from the Inns of Court of which he was Colonel. He in. firstly Anne, ltli da. of John LITTLETON, of Frankley, co. Worcester, by Muriel, da. of Sir Thomas Bhomley. She d. 6 Feb. 1623, and was bur. in the church of tho Inner Temple, London. He m. secondly Elizabeth, widow of Sir George Calvehlf.y, da. of Sir William Jones, one of the Justices of the King's Bench, 1624-40. He d. s.p.m., 27, and was bar. 2S Aug. leio.t 1 ) in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, aged 56, when his peerage became cxtinct.( h ) Will pr. 1649. LYTTLETON, son Lyttelton. LYTTON and LYTTON OF KNEBWORTH. Barony. l. The Rt. Hon. Sin Edward-George-Earijs-Lytton T 1 Sfifi Bci.weii- Lytton, Hart, (formerly Edward George Karle Lytton But- weh), was cr., 11 July 1S66, BARON LYTTON OF KNEIiWOKTH, co. Hertford. He was 3d( c ) and yst. s. of William Earle BULWEB, formerly Wiggett.C 1 ) of Heyilon Hall and Wood Oalling, co. Norfolk, by Elizabeth Barbara, da. and h. of Richard Lytton, formerly WauuuiitoN, of Knebworth, Herts ;(<-') was b. 25 May 1S03, at No. 31. Baker street, Maryleboue, tho' not bap. till many (7 ? ) years later ; ed. at Trin. Hall, Cambridge ; B.A., 1826 ; M.A., 1835 ; was M.P. for St. Ives, 1831-32 ; for Lincoln, 1S32-41, and for Herts, 1852-66, having been cr. a Baronet, IS July 1838, as " of Knebworth, Herts," to which estate he sue. on his mother's death, six years later, when by Royal lie, 20 Feb. 1844, he took the name of Lytton after that of Jlulucr ; D.C.L. of Oxford, 9 June 1S53 ; Rector of Glasgow Univ., 1856 and 1858 ; P.O., 1858 ; Sec. of State for the Colonies, 1858-59 ; LL.D. of (") His integrity and his talents were undoubted. He is spoken of by Whitelocke (who was of the opposite side) as "a man of courage and of excellent parts and learn- ing," but his endeavours '"to be the friend of all parties," as also "to resist the encroachments on the Constitution " and "to support the Sovereign when his power was threatened " made his career somewhat weak and incongruous. Sec Foss's "' Judges." ( b ) Anne, his only da. and h., m. her cousin, Sir Thomas Littletou, 2d Bart., of Stoke Milburgh, and was bur. (as his widow) at North Ockendon, Essex, 4 Dec. 1705, leaving issue, Sir Thomas Littleton, 3d Bart., Speaker of the House of Commons, who d. B.p., Jau. 1710. ( c ) His eldest br. inherited Heydon Hall and is ancestor of the Bulwer family there settled, while the second br. was cr. Baron Dulling and Bulwer in 1871 and d. s.p. the next year. ( d ) He was s. and h. of William Wiggett, of Guestwich, co. Norfolk (who was s. aud h. of Rice Wiggett, by Sarah, sister and coheir of William Bulwer, of West Dalliug), which William took the name of Bulwer in lieu of Wiggett by act of Pari. 1756. (°) This Richard (who d. s.p.m. in 1810, aged 55), assumed the name of Lytton (in lieu of Warburton) on inheriting the estate of Knebworth by the death (in 1762) of his maternal uncle, John Robinson-Lytton, s. and h. (in 1732) of William Robinson- Lytton (formerly Robinson) of the same. None of the abovenamed parties have any descent from the old family of Lytton, of Knebworth, which estate was devised iu 1710 to the said William Robinson by the will of Lytton Lytton, formerly Lytton Strode, whose mother, Margaret (wife of Sir George Strode), was sister of another William Robinson, the father of the abovenamed William Robinson, afterwards William Robinson-Lytton. The paternal grandmother of the testator (Lytton Lytton, formerly, Lytton Strode) Judith, wife of Sir Nicholas Strode, was one of the sisters of Sir William Lytton, of Knebworth, who d. 1705, aged 61, being the last heir male of his race. The descendants of the other sister, Dame Anno Russell, of Strensham (the heirs at law aud representatives of the race of Lytton) were passed over by the testator in favour of his maternal relatives, the abovemeutioued family of Robinson.