Lettice is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:

Given name

*Lettice Boyle, wife of

George Goring, Lord Goring George Goring, Lord Goring (14 July 1608 – 1657) was an English Cavalier, Royalist soldier. He was known by the Courtesy titles in the United Kingdom, courtesy title ''Lord Goring'' as the eldest son of the George Goring, 1st Earl of Norwich, ...

Lettice Bryan Lettice Pierce Bryan (1805–1877) was an American writer, who wrote ''The Kentucky Housewife'', a cookbook originally published in 1839. Life Lettice Pierce was born in central Kentucky, probably near Danville, to James A. Pierce and Elizab ...

(1805–1877), American author *

Lettice Cooper Lettice Ulpha Cooper OBE (3 September 1897 – 24 July 1994) was an English writer. Biography She began to write stories when she was seven, and studied Classics at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, graduating in 1918. She returned home after Oxfor ...

(1897–1994), English writer * Lettice Curtis (1915–2014), English woman aviator, flight test engineer, air racing pilot and sportswoman *

Lettice Digby, 1st Baroness Offaly Lettice FitzGerald, 1st Baroness Offaly (c. 1580 – 1 December 1658) was an Irish noblewoman and a member of the FitzGerald dynasty. Although she became heiress-general to the Earls of Kildare on the death of her father, the title instea ...

(1580–1658), Irish peeress and landowner * Lettice Digby (scientist) (1877–1972), British cytologist, botanist and malacologist * Lettice D'Oyly Walters (1880–1940), English writer *

Lettice Fisher Lettice Fisher ( Ilbert; 14 June 1875 – 14 February 1956) was the founder of the National Council for the Unmarried Mother and her Child, now known as Gingerbread. She was also an economist and a historian. Background and education Lettice I ...

(1875–1956), English economist and historian * Lettice Jowitt (1878–1962), English Quaker educationalist *

Lettice Knollys Lettice Knollys ( , sometimes Latinisation of names, latinized as Laetitia, alias Lettice Devereux or Lettice Dudley), Countess of Essex and Countess of Leicester (8 November 1543Adams 2008a – 25 December 1634), was an English noblewoman and ...

(1543–1634), mother of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, Queen Elizabeth I's courtier * Lettice Lee (1731–1776), Colonial American society hostess * Lady Lettice Lygon (1906–1973), English socialite and aristocrat who was one of the

Bright Young Things __NOTOC__ The Bright Young Things, or Bright Young People, was a group of Bohemian young aristocrats and socialites in London during the Roaring Twenties. The name was given to them by the tabloid press. They threw flamboyant fancy dress part ...

. * Lettice Mary Tredway (1595–1677), English abbess *Lettice Paget, Baroness Paget (1583–1655), English noblewoman born to Sir Henry Knollys and Margaret Cave, wife of

William Paget, 4th Baron Paget William Paget, 4th Baron Paget of Beaudesert (1572 – 29 August 1629) was an English peer and colonist born in Beaudesert House, Staffordshire, England to Thomas Paget, 3rd Baron Paget and Nazareth Newton. His grandfather was William Page ...

Lettice Ramsey Lettice Ramsey (2 August 1898 – 12 July 1985) was a British photographer. Life Lettice Cautley Baker was born on 2 August 1898 in Guildford, Surrey, England. Her father Cecil was a surveyor and her mother Frances (née Davies-Colley) was a ...

(1898–1985), English photographer * Lettice Sandford (1902–1993), draftsman, wood-engraver, corn dolly revivalist and watercolourist from Herefordshire

Surname

* John Lettice (1737–1832), English clergyman, translator, academic, and author

Fictional characters

* Lettice Protheroe, a character in Agatha Christie's novel

The Murder at the Vicarage ''The Murder at the Vicarage'' is a work of detective fiction by the British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in October 1930 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. The UK edi ...

* Lettice the Mercy, a tomb-colonist in the game

Fallen London ''Fallen London'', originally ''Echo Bazaar'', is a browser-based interactive narrative game developed by Failbetter Games and set in "Fallen London", an alternative Victorian London with gothic overtones. The franchise subsequently expande ...

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