(1709 - 73), miscellaneous writer, e. s. of Sir Thomas Lyttelton, 4th Bt. of Hagley, Worcs; educ. Eton and Ch.Ch. Oxf. 1726; MP 1735 - 56; m. 1 1742 Lucy Fortescue (d. 1747), 2 1749 Elizabeth Rich; FRS 1744; suc. fa. 1751 as 5th Bt.; BM Trustee 1753 - 73; cr. B. Lyttelton 1756.
1729 - 30 Turin (by 6 Nov. 1729), Genoa (26 Nov.), Milan (6 Dec.), Padua (20 Dec.), Venice (21 Dec. 1729 - 12 Feb. 1730), Rome (by 16 Mar. - ), Naples, Rome (by 4 May), Florence ( - by 19 May)
George Lyttelton left England in the spring of 1728 and travelled leisurely through France before reaching Turin at the beginning of November 1729.1 At Lyons in October he met Charles Wyndham who became his companion. He wrote in French to his father from Turin on 16 November saying he had been there ten or twelve days; the Spanish Ambassador, 'le marquis de Santacru', had been particularly kind to them, and they had been received by the King [of Sardinia] in his country house; they were going on to Milan and Genoa. On 20 December they were in Padua,2 prior to spending nearly two months in Venice. Lyttelton stayed there an extra two weeks 'in hopes of going to Rome with Mr W[yndham]; but an unforeseen accident having fixed him here,' he wrote on 11 February, 'I shall set out tomorrow quite alone, which will be very melancholy.' By 16 March he was in Rome,3 where he was reunited with Wyndham. Lyttelton was in Naples sometime in April, as he mentioned in a letter from Rome of 7 May. Stosch reported he was to leave Rome for England on 5 May, the day after Wyndham, and described him as 'esteemed here for his merit and talents, and hated by the Pretender and his adherents'.4 On 19 May Lyttelton and Wyndham had left Florence together, bound for Paris.5 See Charles Wyndham.
1. See Geo.Lyttelton, Works, 3:693 - 719. 2. Brown 1872. 3. SP 98/32, f.42 (Walton). 4. Ibid., f.62. 5. SP 98/31 (Colman, 19 May 1730).
