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Alfred Lyttleton
Profile |
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Full
name |
Honourable
Alfred Lyttleton M.P. |
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Popular name |
Alfred
Lyttleton |
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Born |
7 February 1857
in Westminster, London. |
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Died |
4 July 1913 in
Marylebone, London, aged 56 years. |
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Height/Weight |
- |
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Club Career |
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Club(s) |
Began his
education at Eton College and Cambridge University where he graduated with
a Masters of Arts. Then turning out
for the Old Etonians, also Hagley FC in Worcestershire. |
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Club honours |
FA Cup
runners-up 1875-76; |
| Individual
honours |
- |
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Distinctions |
Also played
first-class cricket for Middlesex and Worcestershire. |
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England Career |
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Player
number |
One of
seven who became the 43rd players to appear
for England. |
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Position(s) |
Full-back; |
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First match |
No. 6, 3 March
1877, England 1 Scotland 3, friendly match at Surrey Cricket Ground, The
Oval, Kennington, London. Aged 20 years 24 days. |
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Last match |
No. 6, 3 March
1877, England 1 Scotland 3, friendly match at Surrey Cricket Ground, The
Oval, Kennington, London. Aged 20 years 24 days. |
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Major
tournaments |
None. |
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Team honours |
None. |
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Individual
honours |
None. |
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Distinctions |
Also played
first-class cricket for England. |
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Beyond
England |
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Became a legal private
secretary to the Attorney General.
Became a member of parliament in 1895, before going to South Africa in
1900 as chairman of the planning committee reconstructing the country
following the Boer War. Eventually becoming Colonial Secretary. -
An English Football Internationalists' Who's Who.
Douglas Lamming (1971). Hatton Press, p.161. |
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Lyttleton was admitted to
Inner Temple in 1881 entitled to practice as a barrister. He
was invested as a King's Counsel. He held the office of Recorder of
Hereford between 1893 and 1894. He held the office of Recorder of Oxford
University between 1894 and 1903. He held the office of Member of
Parliament for Warwick and Leamington between 1895 and 1906. He held the
office of High Steward of Cambridge University. He
was invested as a Queen's Counsel in 1899. He was awarded the honorary
degree of Master of Arts by Oxford University. He was
invested as a Privy Counsellor. He was Chancellor of Rochester Diocese in
1903. He held the office of Secretary of State for the Colonies between
1903 and 1905. He held the office of Member of Parliament for St.
George's, Hanover Square between 1906 and 1913. -
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