Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Lyttelton KB (1718 – 1 October 1770) was a

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soldier and politician who served in the

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. He was the fourth son of

Sir Thomas Lyttelton, 4th Baronet Sir Thomas Lyttelton, 4th Baronet, of Frankley, in the County of Worcester (1686 – 14 September 1751), was an English landowner and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1721 to 1741. He held office as one of the Lords of the Ad ...

. He served as Governor of Menorca from 1763 until 1766 after its restoration to British rule following the fall of Menorca to the French in 1756 – later returning to Britain where he died in 1770. He was also

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. He was the younger brother of

George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, (17 January 1709 – 22 August 1773), known between 1751 and 1756 as Sir George Lyttelton, 5th Baronet, was a British Politician, statesman. As an author himself, he was also a supporter of other writers a ...

, a leading MP and a friend of William Pitt, and the uncle of

Thomas Lyttelton, 2nd Baron Lyttelton Thomas Lyttelton, 2nd Baron Lyttelton (30 January 1744 – 27 November 1779) was an English MP and profligate from the Lyttelton family. Life Sometimes dubbed "the wicked Lord Lyttelton" and "bad Lord Lyttelton", he was the son of George Ly ...

and

Thomas Pitt, 1st Baron Camelford Thomas Pitt, 1st Baron Camelford (3 March 1737 – 19 January 1793) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1761 until 1784 when he was raised to the peerage as Baron Camelford. He was an art connoisseur. Early life Pit ...

, MP. Lyttelton married Rachel, Duchess of Bridgewater (widow of

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) on 14 December 1745. He was an employer of John Burrows, a physician who served as his secretary in Menorca, and later made groundbreaking research into

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.Merians, p. 92 His nephew

, son of his sister Christian, erected an obelisk to his memory in 1771 at the family seat at Boconnoc.

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* Black, Jeremy.'' Pitt the Elder''. Cambridge University Press, 1992. * Linda E. Merians (ed). ''The Secret Malady''. Medical, 1996 1718 births 1770 deaths History of Menorca Knights Companion of the Order of the Bath British Army lieutenant generals British MPs 1747–1754 British MPs 1754–1761 Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Poole Younger sons of baronets Governors of Guernsey (1500–1835) {{England-GreatBritain-MP-stub

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