Biography

George William Lyttelton (1817-76), 4th Baron Lyttelton and educationalist, was born in London on 31 March 1817. He was educated at Eton College, 1827-33, and entered Trinity College, Cambridge, the following year. He was a Newcastle scholar, a medallist (1834), and graduated BA, MA, and joint senior classic in 1838. He was lord lieutenant of Worcestershire from 1839 to the end of his life. He became principal of Queen's College, Birmingham, in 1845, the first president of the Birmingham and Midland Institute in 1853, and he took an active interest in promoting the Oxford and Cambridge local examinations in the midlands. He died on 19 April 1876 at 18 Park Crescent, Portman Place, London.

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