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Edward
Lyttelton |
Cambridge University AFC
1 appearance, 0 goals
P 1 W 0 D 0 L 1 F
2:
A
7
0% successful
1878
captain: none
minutes played: 90 |
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Timeline |
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Reverend
Canon, Doctor
The Right Honourable Edward Lyttelton
MA (Cantab) |
Birth |
Monday, 23 July 1855 in St. James' Square,
Westminster, Middlesex |
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registered in St James January-March 1856 Westminster was in Middlesex County Registration up until 1889. |
"On Monday last, in St. James;-square, Lady Lyttelton, of a son."
- Staffordshire Sentinel and Commercial & General Advertiser, Saturday, 28 July 1855. |
Baptism |
26 August 1855 in Hagley, Worcester. |
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"DEATH OF LADY
LYTTELTON.―Lady Lyttelton died
at an early hour on Tuesday morning, at Hagley Hall, Worcestershire. The
deceased lady was second daughter of the late Sir Stephen Glynne, Bart.,
and sister to the present Baronet and Mrs. W. E. Gladstone. She was
married to Lord Lyttelton in 1839, and leaves issue twelve sons and
daughters." - Bath Chronicle & Weekly Gazette, Thursday, 20 August 1857. |
According to the 1861
census, Edward is the eighth of nine children to George William and the
deceased Mary
(née Glynne). They have ten servants. His father is the Lord Lieutenant
of Worcestershire. They live at 80 Marine Parade in Brighton. |
According to the 1871
census, Edward has a new stepmother, Sybella H., and a new half-sister, Sarah
R. They all live at Hagley Hall (left) in Hagley, Bromsgrove, with fifteen
servants. His father is a Peer. Edward is a student at Eton College |
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(His father died 19 April 1876) According to the 1881
census, Edward is a assistant schoolmaster at Wellington College in
Sandhurst. |
Marriage |
to Caroline Amy West. Daughter of the
Right Reverend John West of Dublin |
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registered in St Patricks
Dublin |
Children |
Edward and Caroline
Lyttelton
had two daughters together. Nora Joan (b.15 June 1890)
and Delia (b.19 November 1892), |
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According to the 1891
census, Edward is institutionalised in Haileybury College in Amwell. He is
married to his Irish wife, Caroline, and they have one daughter, Nora Joan. They
have six servants. He is a Clerk in Holy Orders. |
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According to the 1901 census,
Edward, a Schoolmaster in the Holy Orders, is still married, with two
daughters, Nora Joan and Delia, and along with six servants, they live at
Great Amwell in Hertfordshire. The
Reverend Edward Lyttelton is the executor of the will of William Baker,
who died on 29 December 1910, in the following March, Edward was stated as
living at Eton. |
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According to the 1911
census, Edward remains married and has two daughters. He his
headmaster of Eton College, and they have eleven servants. (Alf Lyttelton
died on 5 July 1913. Another brother, George William died 5 December 1913). The Teachers List shows Edward living at Grangegorman in
Overstrand at the time of his registration in 1914. Again, Edward is
the executor of the will of Rev. Walter Allan Moberley. He had died in
December 1905, but not executed until March 1929, Edward is living
at Haileybury College. |
(Caroline Amy Lyttelton
died 6 July 1919) According to the 1921
census, Edward, a chaplain and lecturer at Whitelands College, remains married
and along with Delia, lives at 6 Bolton Gardens in Kensington. They now
only have four servants. |
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The 1920-29 London
Electoral Registers states that Dr. Edward Lyttelton is living at 6
Bolton Gardens in Kensington. |
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"Serious
Accident to a Former 'Head' of Eton.
"Dr. Edward Lyttelton, a
former headmaster of Eton and Haileybury, was knocked down by a private
motor-car on Victoria Embankment outside Charing Cross tube station,
London, yesterday. He was conveyed to Charing Cross Hospital, where he
received attention for injuries to the head, eye, hand, and leg, but did
not regain consciousness for two hours. He had recovered sufficiently last
night to be able to be taken home. Dr, Lyttelton had just left Sion
College, where he had delivered one of a series of lectures, when the
accident occurred." - Hartlepool
Daily Mail, Tuesday, 25 March 1930 /Sheffield Daily Telegraph, Wednesday, 26 March 1930 |
According to the 1939 register, Edward is a widow, a clerk in the holy
works. He lives with two of his daughters, Norah J. and Delia and possibly
five servants. They all live at Grangegorman, in New Road, Erpingham. |
Death |
Monday, 26 January 1942 at The Old Palace, Lincoln,
Lincolnshire |
aged
86 years 187 days |
registered in Lincoln
January-March 1942. |
"LYTTELTON.―At the Old Palace, Lincoln, on
26th January, 1942, the Reverend the Hon. Edward Lyttelton, D.D., aged 86
years. Choral Service in Lincoln Cathedral, Thursday, 29th January, 1942,
10.30 a.m., followed by Cremation at Nottingham. No flowers."-
The
Lincolnshire Echo, Monday,
26/Tuesday, 27 January 1942. |
Obituary |
"FORMER ETON HEAD Death of Dr. Edward
Lyttelton. "Dr. Edward Lyttelton, 86 years-old former head
master of Eton, died at the Old Palace, Lincoln, where he had been living
with the Bishop of Lincoln. His association with Eton covered nearly half
a century, and he was known as 'the brown man' to everyone there because
of his tanned complexion. If he
were held in awe by the boys they respected him, too, for they knew him to
be a man who always did the right and just thing. Last of a famous family
of cricketing brothers, he was the first player to score a century against
the Australians. He captained the Cambridge eleven of 1878, the only team
to defeat the Australians during their first English tour. His life story
was bound up with Eton, where he was educated, and where he was an
assistant master before becoming head. He was the seventh of eight
brothers, seven of whom secured places in the Eton XI at Lord's. In 1878,
he played Association football for England against Scotland."
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The Western Morning News,
Tuesday, 27 January 1942.
"Dr. Edward
Lyttelton Former Head Master of Eton. "Dr. the Hon. Edward
Lyttelton, former Head Master of Eton, died yesterday, aged 86, at the Old
Palace, Lincoln, where he had been living for the past 18 months. Seventh
son of the fourth Lord Lyttelton, he was the last of the famous cricketing
brothers. He was an uncle of captain Oliver Lyttelton, Minister of State
in the Middle East. Dr. Lyttelton was born in 1855 and educated at Eton
and Trinity College, Cambridge. He came of a distinguished Etonian family.
His eldest brother, who became 8th Viscount Cobham in succession to his
kinsman, the 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chados, held the offices of Land
Commissioner for England and Wales and Commissioner under the Railway and
Canal Traffic Act, and died in 1922. Of his other brothers, General Sir
Neville Lyttelton was Chief of the General Staff and First Military Member
of the Army Council 1904-8, and General Officer Commanding-in-Chief the
Forces in Ireland 1908-12: the Hon. Alfred Lyttelton, K.C., who died in
1913, was Colonial Secretary in 1903-05: another brother was Bishop of
Southampton: and the Hon. Spencer Lyttelton, C.B., was private secretary
to Mr. Gladstone from 1892-4.
Dr. Lyttelton's fame was somewhat overclouded in 1915 by an incursion into
the region of war politics, and some remarks he made as to our attitude
towards the Germans met with emphatic disapproval and let to suggestions
that he ought to resign the head mastership of Eton.
This
he did early in the following year. In his reminiscences. 'Memories
and Hopes,'
published in 1925, he says that the resignation was due
to 'various circumstances, domestic, official, private and public.' He had
no sympathy with the German war spirit, though he suggested that England
was not wholly free from responsibility for the war. Like his brothers,
Dr. Lyttelton was an ardent athlete, and was a member of the Eton and
Cambridge cricket elevens. He played for Cambridge against Oxford in the
four successive years from 1875 to 1878 inclusive, and did good work for
Middlesex afterwards, one of his best scores being 113 against the
Australians in 1878. He was credited with being the first England
cricketer to make a century against the Australians." -
The Yorkshire Post & Leeds Mercury, Tuesday,
27 January 1942. |
Funeral
Friday, 30 January 1942
at Overstrand |
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"The Bishop of Lincoln (the Right Rev. F. C.
Nugent Hicks), as Visitor of Eton College, will conduct a memorial service
for the Rev. the Hon. Edward Lyttelton in the College Chapel at 3.15 p.m.
on Friday. Dr. Lyttelton is to be buried at Overstrand, Norfolk, on
Friday." -
The Lincolnshire Echo, Wednesday, 28
January 1942. "The casket containing the ashes of Dr.
Lyttelton was interred at Sidestrand, Norfolk" - The
Lincolnshire Echo. Saturday, 31
January 1942. |
Probate |
"LYTTELTON
the honourable and reverend Edward of The Old Palace
Lincoln honorary canon
of Norwich Cathedral died 26 January 1942 Probate
Norwich 21 April to
Norah Joan Lyttelton spinster.
Effects £2734 17s. 1d."
[2019 equivalent: £129,785] |
Source |
Douglas Lammings' An
English Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990] &
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Cambridge University Alumni |
LYTTELTON,
Edward.
Adm pens. at TRINITY, 28 February 1874.
S. of
George William, Baron Lyttelton of
Hagley Hall, Stourbridge, Worcs.
B.
23 July 1855, in London.
Matric.Michs.1874, Scholar, 1877; BA 1878,
MA 1881; BD 1907; DD 1912;
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Cricket blue 1875-8, Capt., 1878. Scored the
first century made against the Australians; played for Gentlemen v.
Players, 1878. Played for England v. Scotland at (association)
football, 1878. Author, Cricket; Mothers and Sons; Studies in the Sermon on the
Mount, etc. Died Ja. 23, 1942, at The Old Palace, Lincoln.
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Playing Career |
Club(s) |
Educated at
Eton College, before graduating at Trinity College, Cambridge University
with a master of Arts and a Doctor of Divinity. Played football with
Old Etonians FC and Hagley FC in Worcestershire. |
Club honours |
FA Cup
runners-up 1875-76; |
Individual honours |
None |
Distinctions |
Also played
first-class cricket for Cambridge University, as well as Middlesex,
Hertfordshire and Worcestershire. The first player to live beyond the
1939 register. |
Height/Weight |
not known |
Source |
Douglas Lammings' An English
Football Internationalist Who's Who [1990]. |
England Career |
Player number |
One of seven who became the
fiftieth players (52) to appear
for England. |
Position(s) |
Half-back; |
Only match |
No.
7, 2 March 1878, Scotland 7 England 2, a friendly match at Hampden Park, Hampden Terrace, Glasgow, aged
22 years
222 days. |
Individual honours |
None |
Distinctions |
Brother
of Alf Lyttelton.
Despite his age when he died, he was not the last surviving member of the
1878 team,
Percy Fairclough outlived him by another 5½ years, and
Henry Wace by
a further five months after that. |
Beyond England |
"After leaving Cambridge, Lyttelton acted for a short period
as an assistant master at Wellington College, and, in 1882, returned to
his old school as an assistant master, a position he retained until 1890,
when he was appointed head master of Haileybury College
[Hertfordshire]. In
the meantime, he had appointed deacon and priest in 1884 and 1886
respectively, and in 1895 he was made an honorary canon of St. Albans. He
remained at Haileybury until his appointment to Eton
[until 1916]. In addition to his
work as head master, he was for a time chairman of the Council of the
Teachers' Guild, a member of the Royal Commission on Secondary Education,
1894, and a member of the Consultative Committee of the Board of
Education, 1900."
- The Yorkshire Post & Leeds Mercury, Tuesday, 27 January 1942. Decorated with the Order of Leopold of
Belgium. Became the Rector of Sidestrand, Norfolk, 1918-20. Dean of
Whitelands College, London, 1920-29. Held the office of Honourable Canon
of Norwich in 1931. He also wrote several books on education and religion,
being a leading voice in the introduction of 'co-education', where boys
and girls are taught as one. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1990). Hatton Press, p.161. |
The Numbers |
parties |
Appearances |
minutes |
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captain |
1 |
1 |
90 |
0 |
none |
The minutes here given
can only ever be a guideline and cannot therefore be accurate, only an
approximation. |
P |
W |
D |
L |
F |
A |
GD |
FTS
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CS |
FAv |
AAv |
Pts% |
W/L |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
7 |
-5 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
7 |
0 |
-1 |
His only match was a friendly match and at a home venue |
Match History
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pos |
followed his brother Alf in playing for England - the fourth
set of brothers to do so |
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