| Ref No (click to see in context) | NL |
| Title | LYTTELTON FAMILY |
| Level | Fonds |
| Date | c.1782-1940 |
| Extent | 78 boxes, plus 8 outsize boxes and 7 index card boxes |
| Creator Name | Neville Gerald Lyttelton Family and Arthur Grenfell Family |
| Description | Personal papers of the Lyttelton family containing correspondence of Neville Lyttelton, Katherine Lyttelton and daughters Lucy Masterman, Hilda Grenfell and Hermione Hichens to and from family and friends, including photographs and ephemera, c.1782-1940.
Neville Lyttelton to family, 1852-1909, 1911-1924; Family to Neville Lyttelton, 1852-1930; Neville Lyttelton to his wife Katherine 1883-1926; Katherine Lyttleton to her family, 1867-1927; Family to Katherine Lyttelton 1886-1916; Katherine Lyttelton to her husband Neville 1883-1926; Friends to Katherine Lyttelton 1877-1940; Various correspondence with friends, predominantly with Katherine Lyttelton, but also Neville Lyttelton, 1888-1938, including Sir Edward Grey, Lady Dorothy Grey, Lady Pamela Grey, George Curzon, Lord Alfred Milner, Violet Gascoyne Cecil, Patrick Duncan, John Morley, Dorothy and Janet Ward, Alfred Lyall; Various family correspondence, c.1850-1937, including letters between Lucy Masterman and Katherine and Neville Lyttelton, Hilda Grenfell and Katherine and Neville Lyttelton, Arthur Grenfell to family, and Hermione Hichens and Katherine and Neville Lyttelton. Includes letters exchanged between Neville and Katherine Lyttleton during the Second Boer War, 1899-1902.
This collection also contains a sub-fonds with additional personal papers, photographs, documents and ephemera of the Grenfell and Lyttelton families, 1800s-1962. It includes many letters exchanged between family members during various wars including the Zulu War, 1879, Second Boer War, 1889-1902, First World War, 1914-1918, and Second World War, 1939-1945, and diary extracts written during the First World War. |
| Admin History | General Sir Neville Lyttelton born the third son of the 4th Baron Lyttelton, of Hagley Hall in Worcestershire, 1845; his mother was sister-in-law of William Gladstone; educated at Eton College; entered Rifle Brigade, 1865; helped to suppress Fenian rising, Canada, 1866; Secretary, Oregon Boundary Dispute Commission, Canada, 1867; ADC to Viceroy of Ireland, 1868-1873; served in Jowaki Expedition, India, 1877, and in Egyptian Campaign, 1882; appointed private secretary to the Secretary of State for War in the Liberal Government, 1880; Military Secretary to Governor of Gibraltar, 1883-1885, and to Governor of Bombay, 1885-1890; 2nd in Command, 3 Bn, Rifle Bde, Jullundar, India, 1890-1893; Lt Col, 1892; commanded 2 Bn, Rifle Bde, Dublin, Ireland, 1893-1895; appointed Assistant Adjutant General War Office, 1895; Assistant Military Secretary, War Office, 1897-1898; commanded brigade during Nile Expedition, Sudan, 1898; commanded 2 Infantry Bde, Aldershot, 1899; commanded 4 Infantry Bde, 2 and 4 Divs, South Africa, 1899-1900; served in Natal, 1901-1902; Commander-in-Chief, South Africa, 1902-1904; Chief of General Staff and First Military Member of Army Council, 1904-1908; Commander-in-Chief, Ireland, 1908-1912; appointed Governor of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, 1912; published Eighty years: soldiering, politics, games (Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1927); died, 1931. He married Katherine Stuart-Wortley in 1883 and they had 3 daughters, of whom Lucy (1884-1977) a writer and poet, married Charles Masterman (1873-1927), the Liberal politician. |
| Arrangement | The collection is arranged as follows:
PP5/1-PP5/38: Papers of Neville Lyttelton and his family
PP5/1-PP5/22: Letters of Neville, Katherine, Lucy, Hilda, Hermione, arranged by correspondent and then chronologically
PP5/23-PP5/27: Family letters to Neville, Katherine, Lucy, Hilda, Hermione
PP5/28-PP5/36: Friends letters to Neville, Katherine, Lucy, Hilda, Hermione
PP5/37-PP5/38: Various other correspondence, memorabilia, photographs and ephemera
PP5/GRE/ Additional papers of the Grenfell family (Arthur Grenfell and Hilda Grenfell nee Lyttelton) |
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| Access Status | Open |
| Code | Person or Corporate Body Name |
| DS/UK/39 | Lyttelton; Sir; Neville Gerald (1845-1931); Knight, General |
| DS/UK/40 | Masterman neé Lyttelton; Lucy Blanche (1884-1977); Poet, politician, also known as Meessee |
| DS/UK/41 | Lyttelton; Lady; Katherine Sarah (1860-1943); neé Stuart-Wortley, wife of Neville Lyttelton |
| DS/UK/1768 | Grenfell; Hilda Margaret (1886-1972); née Lyttelton, daughter of Neville Lyttelton |
| DS/UK/1769 | Hichens; Mary Hermione (fl. 1894-1940); née Lyttelton, known as Hermione, daughter of Neville Lyttelton |
| DS/UK/1790 | Grey; Sir; Edward (1862-1933); 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Foreign Secretary, British Liberal statesman, baronet |
| DS/UK/1968 | Grey; Dorothy (fl. 1895-1906); née Widdrington |
| DS/UK/1961 | Grey; Pamela Adelaide Genevieve (1871-1928); née Wyndham |
| DS/UK/1971 | Curzon; George Nathaniel (1859-1925); 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston; British Conservative statesman, Viceroy of India, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs |
| DS/UK/1948 | Milner; Alfred (1854-1925); 1st Viscount Milner; British statesman, colonial administrator |
| DS/UK/1964 | Milner; Violet Georgina (1872-1958); née Maxse, surname Gscoyne-Cecil from 1894, surname Milner from 1921 |
| DS/UK/1962 | Duncan; Sir; Patrick (1870-1943); Governor-General of the Union of South Africa |
| DS/UK/1791 | Morely; John (1838-1923); 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, British Liberal statesman, writer, newspaper editor |
| DS/UK/1798 | Ward; Dorothy (1874-1964) |
| DS/UK/1963 | Trevelyan; Janet Penrose (fl. 1903-1940); née Ward |
| DS/UK/1967 | Lyall; Sir; Alfred Comyn (1835-1911); British civil servant, literary historian, poet |
| DS/UK/1784 | Grenfell; Arthur Morton (1873-1958); Lieutenant Colonel |