Lytton, Noel Anthony Scawen, 4th Earl of Lytton |
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BORN 7 Apr 1900, London: Chelsea - DIED 18 Jan 1985, Crawley, West Sussex GRAVE LOCATION Crawley, West Sussex: Franciscan Monastery |
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Noel Lyrtton was the son of Neville Stephen Lytton, the third Earl Lytton. His mother Judith Blunt was a decendant of Lord Byron as well as Edward Bulwer-Lytton. He grew up near Crawley in West Sussex and was educated at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. His parents divorced in 1923. Together with his sister Anne he changed his surname to Lytton-Milbanke in 1925 because his mother had succeeded to the Barony of Wentworth. Lytton obtained a commission in the Rifle Brigade. He served in as an administrator in Kenia and in the 1930s he taught economics. During the Second World War he served in Africa, Italy, Greece and Yugoslavia. There he met Clarissa Mary Palmer (1915-2006). They were married on 30/11/1946 and the had five children. They remaiend married until his death in 1985. Lytton wrote several books. In 1957 he published "The Desert and the Green" and in 1961 "Wilfrid Scawen Blunt: A Memoir", about his grandfather, the poet. Another book was "The Stolen Desert" (1966). Family • Mother: Blunt-Lytton, Judith Anne Dorothea, 16th Baroness Wentworth Related persons • wrote about Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen |
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 The grave of Noel Anthony Scawen Lytton at the Franciscan Monastery, Crawley. Picture by Androom (16 Feb 2017) |
Sources • Who Was Who vol. VIII 1981-1990, A&C Black, London, 1991 • Noel Lytton - Wikipedia (EN) |
