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LYTTON, SIR WILLIAM, only son of Sir Rowland Lytton, Kt, MP, Knebworth, Herts., and Hon. Anne St. John, widow of Robert Corbet, Moreton Corbet, Shropshire, and fourth dau. of Oliver St. John, 1st Baron St. John of Bletsho; b.; at school 1601-2 (Letters written by John Chamberlain during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, Camden Soc. Pub., 1st series, lxxix, 121, 124); Emmanuel Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow commoner 17 Oct 1603; MP Hertfordshire Feb 1623/4 – Apr 1653; knighted 25 Jul 1624; one of Commissioners sent by parliament to treat with Charles I; m. 1st, Anne, dau. of Stephen Slaney, Norton, Shropshire; m. 2nd, Ruth, dau. of Francis Barrington, Barrington Hall, Essex; d. 14 Aug 1660, aged 71.

Lyttelton, Oliver, Viscount Chandos of Aldershot, only son of the Right Hon. Alfred Lyttelton, M. P., sometime Secretary of State for the Colonies, by his second wife, Edith Sophy, daughter of Archibald Balfour (q.v.); b. March 15, 1893; adm. Sept. 22, 1904 (R); left Easter 1906 and went to Eton; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. Michaelmas 1912; Lieut. Grenadier Guards July 15, 1915; temp. Capt. Oct. 18, 1915; served in Great War I; mentioned in despatches L. G. Jan. 4 and Dec. 11, 1917; D.S.O., Oct. 20, 1916; M.C. July 26, 1918; played golf for Cambridge 1913; M. P. Aldershot 1940-54; Controller of Non-Ferrous Metals 1939-40; P. C. 1940; President of the Board of Trade 1940-1 and May-July 1945; Minister of State and Member of War Cabinet 1941-2; Minister of Production and Member of War Cabinet 1942-5; Secretary of State for the Colonies 1951-4; created Viscount Chandos of Aldershot Sept. 10, 1954; chairman of Associated Electrical Insudtries Ltd. 1945-51 and since 1954; m. Jan. 30, 1920, Lady Moira Godolphin Osborne, fourth daughter of George, 10th Duke of Leeds; d. 21 Jan. 1972.

Lyster, Ernest Algernon; b. Nov. 23, 1882; adm. May 6, 1897 (H); left Dec. 1897.

LYON, WILLIAM JOHN, fourth son of Joseph Lyon, Ashfield Neston, Cheshire, and Bloomsbury Square, London, barrister, and Elizabeth, dau. of Joseph Winder, Vaynor Park, Montgomeryshire; b. 14 Jan 1791; adm.; Min. Can. 1803; in school lists May and Oct 1803; KS 1804; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1808, adm. pens. 28 May 1808, scholar 1809; BA 1812; adm. Gray’s Inn 15 Jun 1808; Cornet, 14th Light Dragoons 28 Apr 1812; Lieut., 10 Jun 1813; served in Peninsular War; killed in action in South of France 18 Mar 1814.

Lyon, Peter, son of Graham Lyon of Haddenham, Bucks; b. 12 June 1923; adm. Sept. 1937 (R); left Apr. 1938 and went to Bryanston Sch.