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Admitted 17 March, 1784.

Only son of John Lysaght of Six-Mile Bridge, co. Clare. He was educated at Dublin and Oxford, where he proceeded M.A. in 1788. He was called to the Bar on 23 May, 1788, and obtained much practice in election petitions. Subsequently he was made a Commissioner in Bankruptcy and a Police Magistrate for Dublin, where he became noted as a wit, bon vivant, and writer of songs, many of which became popular. His Poems were collected and published, with a Memoir, in 1811,

Son of John Lyster and member of an old Wakefield family. There is no record of his admission; but he was Lent Reader at the Inn in 1516, and again in 1522, and Treasurer in 1523, being then Solicitor-General. In 1525 he became Attorney-General, four years later Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and in 1545 Chief Justice of the King's Bench, He resigned the latter post in 1552, and died in Southampton two years later, 14 March, 1554.

Admitted 27 April, 1731.

Second son of Sir Thomas Lyttelton, Bart., of Hagley, Worcestershire, where he was born in 1714, and educated at Eton and Oxford. Two years after his call to the Bar, 26 Jan. 1738, he abandoned the law and was ordained. He was successively Rector of Alvechurch (1742), Dean of Exeter (1748), and Bishop of Carlisle (1762). He died in London 22 Dec. 1768, and was buried at Hagley.

He was devoted to the study of history and antiquities, and in 1746 was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, of which he became President in 1765. At his death he left all his MSS. to the Society. From these were subsequently chiefly compiled Nash's History of Worcestershire and Shaw's Staffordshire. A portrait of the Bishop may be seen in the Vetusta Monumenta.

Admitted 1 November, 1743.

The fourth son of Sir Thomas Lyttelton, Bart, of Hagley, Worcestershire, and younger brother of Bishop Lyttelton (q.v.). He was educated at Eton and Oxford, where he received the honorary degree of D.C.L. 23 Nov. 1781. In the year of his call to the Bar, 29 Jan. 1747-8, he was elected to Parliament for Bewdley, which he represented till 1755, when he proceeded to South Carolina as Governour of that Colony. Thence he was transferred to Jamaica in 1762, and in 1766 became Ambassador in Portugal. On his return to England he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland by the title of Baron Westcote of Balamare, and subsequently (1794) to the British Peerage as Baron Lyttelton of Frankley. He died at Hagley 14 Sept. 1808.

He was the author of a History of the Constitution of Jamaica, which may be found in the edition of the Laws of Jamaica, published in 1792.