George Lyttelton, first baron Lyttelton

(1709-1773)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Lyttelton, George Lyttelton, Baron, 1709-1773 NRA: Lyttelton George (1709-1773) 1st Baron Lyttelton statesman DNB: Lyttelton, George, first Baron Lyttelton (1709-1773), politician and writer LBT ID: LdLytte1 VIAF ID: 4951927 LOC ID: n50082066	B/BAP: 1709-01-17 DIED: 1773-08-22
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English poet, historian, and politician, the patron of James Thomson and the author of a much-admired elegy for his first wife.
REFERENCES TO George Lyttelton, first baron Lyttelton: John Murray the elder to William Falconer, 16 October 1768 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 2 R. C. Dallas to Lord Byron, 6 January 1808 in Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron (London: Charles Knight, 1824) Found 1: ¶ 2 Dallas, Robert Charles, 1754-1824, Recollections of the Life of Lord Byron (London: Charles Knight, 1824) Chapter I Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) The Author’s Visit to Italy. Found 1: ¶ 160 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1808 Found 1: ¶ 7 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter VII 1792-96 Found 1: ¶ n1 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 3: Poetry Verse 2: p. 33b p. 33b Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter V. Found 1: ¶ 26 Chapter VI. Found 1: ¶ 58 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Prelude 2 Found 1: ¶ 6 Chapter I Found 1: ¶ 6 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XX Found 1: ¶ 44 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chapter I. Found 1: ¶ 12