Richard Lyttelton

Lt-General Sir Richard Lyttelton KB (1718 – 1 October 1770) was a British soldier and politician who served in the British Army. He was the fourth son of Sir Thomas Lyttelton, 4th Baronet. He served as Governor of Minorca from 1763 until 1766 after its restoration to British rule following the fall of Minorca to the French in 1756 - later returning to Britain where he died in 1770. He was also Governor of Guernsey.

He was the younger brother of George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, a leading MP and a friend of William Pitt, and the uncle of Thomas Lyttleton.

Lyttelton married Rachel, Duchess of Bridgewater (widow of Scroop Egerton, 1st Duke of Bridgewater) on 14 December 1745. He was an employer of John Burrows, a physician who served as his secretary in Minorca, and later made groundbreaking research into venereal disease.[1]

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References

  1. Merians p.92

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Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by
Sir Paul Methuen
Sewallis Shirley
Member of Parliament for Brackley
17471754
With: Sewallis Shirley
Succeeded by
Marshe Dickinson
Thomas Humberston
Preceded by
Joseph Gulston
George Trenchard
Member of Parliament for Poole
17541761
With: Joseph Gulston
Succeeded by
Joseph Gulston
Thomas Calcraft
Military offices
Preceded by
Louis-Félicien de Boffin d'Argenson et Pusignieu
Governor of Minorca
17631766
Succeeded by
George Howard
Preceded by
The Earl De La Warr
Governor of Guernsey
17661770
Succeeded by
Sir Jeffrey Amherst


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