The Right Honourable
The Earl of Lytton
DL, FRICS
Official parliamentary portrait, 2020
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
as a hereditary peer
23 April 1985 – 11 November 1999
Preceded byThe 4th Earl of Lytton
Succeeded bySeat abolished
as an elected hereditary peer
16 May 2011 – present
Preceded byThe 11th Baron Monson
Personal details
Born
John Peter Michael Scawen Lytton

(1950-06-07) 7 June 1950
Spouse
Ursula Alexandra Komoly
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(m. 1980)​
RelationsBaron Cobbold
Children3
Parent(s)Noel Lytton, 4th Earl of Lytton
Clarissa Mary née Palmer
Residence(s)Newbuildings Place, Sussex
EducationDownside School
Alma materUniversity of Reading
OccupationChartered surveyor

John Peter Michael Scawen Lytton, 5th Earl of Lytton, 18th Baron Wentworth, DL, FRICS (born 7 June 1950; styled Viscount Knebworth 1951–1985), is an aristocratic British chartered surveyor, hereditary peer and member of the House of Lords.[1]

Background and education

The elder son of Noel Lytton, 4th Earl of Lytton, by his wife Clarissa Mary née Palmer,[2] he is a descendant of the poet and adventurer Lord Byron (born 1788) via his daughter Ada Lovelace (born 1815), who was arguably the world's first computer programmer. Her daughter Anne (born 1837) married the poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt; their daughter Judith Blunt-Lytton was Noel's mother and thus the 5th and present earl's grandmother. He is patrilineally descended from Edward Bulwer-Lytton.[3]

Educated at Downside School, Lytton read estate management at the University of Reading, graduating as BSc in 1972.

Career

After spending thirteen years at the Inland Revenue Valuation Office and some additional years with surveying firms Permutt Brown & Co. and Cubitt & West, he set up the practice of John Lytton & Co., Chartered Surveyors, in January 1988.[4] Succeeding his father in the earldom in 1985, he was deprived of a seat in the House of Lords upon the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999. However, on 11 May 2011 Lord Lytton won a hereditary peer by-election being reintroduced to the Upper House, where he sits as a crossbencher (ie. non-affiliated).[5]

Lord Lytton has taken his Byronic ancestry to heart and contributes to the Newstead Byron Society Review,[6] as well as speaking before the Byron Society about his family history.[7] He was elected President of the Newstead Abbey Byron Society in 1988.

Elected a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS) in 1987 and Hon. FBEng in 1997, Lord Lytton is a Patron of the Chartered Association of Building Engineers.[8] Since 2011, he serves as a Deputy Lieutenant for West Sussex.[9]

Family

Married on 7 June 1980 to Ursula Alexandra Komoly, a daughter of Anton Komoly of Vienna, Austria, the Earl and Countess of Lytton have three children:[2]

  • Lady Katrina Mary Noel Lytton (b. 1985)[2]
  • Philip Anthony Scawen Lytton, Viscount Knebworth (b. 1989)[2]
  • Hon. Wilfrid Thomas Scawen Lytton (b. 1992).[2]

Lord Lytton inherited Newbuildings Place, Sussex, in 1984 from his aunt, Lady Anne Lytton.[10] His cousins maintain the ancestral estate, Knebworth House in Hertfordshire.

See also

References

  1. ↑ www.college-of-arms.gov.uk
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Lytton, Earl of (UK, 1880)". cracroftspeerage.co.uk. Heraldic Media Limited. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  3. ↑ www.burkespeerage.com
  4. ↑ lytton.co.uk Archived 31 August 2005 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ↑ www.parliament.uk
  6. ↑ "Archived copy". 212.158.3.83. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 2 February 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. ↑ www.stirnet.com
  8. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 May 2006. Retrieved 18 June 2006.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  9. ↑ www.westsussexlieutenancy.org.uk
  10. ↑ british-history.ac.uk
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