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Acquired for the joint library of George IV when Prince of Wales, and his brother Frederick, Duke of York and Bishop of Osnabruck, before 1780; later part of George IV's library at Carlton House
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, PC (17 January 1709 – 22 August 1773), known between 1751 and 1756 as Sir George Lyttelton, 5th Baronet, was a British statesman. As an author himself, he was also a supporter of other writers and as a patron of the arts made an important contribution to the development of 18th-century ...
Summary. WITH A SINGLE EXCEPTION, all the letters printed here, written while George Lyttelton was on the Grand Tour, were addressed to his father, Sir Thomas Lyttelton (1685–1751), landowner and politician, of Hagley Hall in Worcestershire (the exception being a letter from father to son).
25 set 2008 · Book digitized by Google from the library of Oxford University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton (born Jan. 17, 1709, Hagley, Worcestershire, Eng.—died Aug. 22, 1773, Hagley) was a British Whig statesman and writer, patron of novelist Henry Fielding and poet James Thomson.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Fece lunghi soggiorni a Parigi e a Roma; durante la sua attiva vita politica, in cui ebbe importanti cariche (fu anche Cancelliere dello scacchiere nel 1755), coltivò la letteratura, e S. Johnson gli diede un posto nei suoi Lives of the poets.
13 set 2010 · Observations on the Roman history. Observations on the present state of our affairs at home and abroad. Letters from a Persian in England to his friend at Ispahan. Two essays first published in a periodical paper, called Common sense -- v. 2. Observations on the conversion and apostleship of St. Paul. Dialogues of the dead -- v. 3.
