Family and Education
b. 29 Sept. 1586,C142/359/114. 1st s. of Sir Rowland Lytton*, and Anne, da. of Sir Oliver St. John†, 1st Bar. St. John of Bletso.R. Clutterbuck, Herts. ii. 377. educ. Westminster sch. 1601-2;Recs. of Old Westminsters comp. G.F.R. Barker and A.H. Stenning, ii. 602. Emmanuel, Camb. 1603-7;Al. Cant. travelled abroad (France, Italy, Low Countries) 1608-9; Padua 1609.SO3/3, unfol. (20 Dec. 1607); Chamberlain Letters ed. N.E. McClure, i. 254, 281; HMC Hatfield, xxi. 215; Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton ed. L. Pearsall Smith, i. 478. m. (1) 24 Feb. 1612,HALS, DE/K/46547; Chamberlain Letters, i. 337. Anne (bur. 3 Mar. 1626), da. and h. of Stephen Slaney of Norton, Salop, 1s. 7da. (2 d.v.p.);Clutterbuck, ii. 377. (2) c.Nov. 1644, Ruth (d.1645), da. of Sir Francis Barrington*, 1st bt., of Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex, wid. of Sir George Lamplugh of Kirkby Sigston, Yorks., s.p.Vis. Essex (Harl. Soc. xiii), 343; Luke Letter Bks. ed. H.G. Tibbutt (Beds. Hist. Rec. Soc. xlii), 389. suc. fa. 1615;Vis. Herts. (Harl. Soc. xxii), 115; C142/359/114. Kntd. 25 July 1624.Shaw, Knights of Eng. ii. 185. d. 14 Aug. 1660.Clutterbuck, ii. 377.
Offices Held

Member, Virg. Co. 1612.A. Brown, Genesis of US, 546.

J.p. Herts. 1615 – 30, 1635 – 49, 1660 – d., St. Albans liberty 1617 – 29, 1635–41;C231/4, ff. 9, 184; 231/5, ff. 35, 177, 179; C181/2, f. 305; 181/3, ff. 1, 264v; 181/5, ff. 23, 241; List of JPs (1660), p. 20. Capt. militia ft. Herts. by 1615- at least 1629;Chamberlain Letters, ii. 614; HMC Hatfield, xxiv. 268. commr. sewers, St. Albans river 1617, Mdx. 1645, 1654;C181/2, f. 297v; 181/5, f. 262; 181/6, p. 4. collector of Palatinate Benevolence, Broadwater hundred and St. Albans liberty 1620;HMC Hatfield, xxii. 125. commr. commr. subsidy, Herts. 1621 – 22, 1624, 1628, 1641–2,CSP Dom. Addenda, 1625–49, p. 729; C212/22/20–1, 23; SR, v. 62, 84, 151. highways, 1622,C181/3, f. 69v. oyer and terminer, St. Albans 1625 – 44, Home circ. 1641, Herts. 1644;C181/3, f. 174v; 181/5, ff. 134v, 193v, 240, 241. sheriff, Herts. 1625–6;List of Sheriffs comp. A. Hughes (PRO, L. and I. ix), 64. dep. lt. Herts. 1625–30;SP16/7/8; HMC Hatfield, xxiv. 270. limiting badgers 1630,APC, 1630–1, p. 132. assessment 1643–8,A. and O. i. 91, 1084. sequestration 1643, defence 1643, levying money 1643, Eastern Assoc. 1643, New Model Ordinance, Herts. 1645, militia 1648, Herts. and Beds. 1660.Ibid. i. 113, 119, 231, 294, 622, 1238; ii. 1426, 1432.

Commr. treaty of Oxford 1643,CJ, ii. 945a; B. Whitelocke, Mems. of Eng. Affairs, i. 195. regulating the excise 1645, exclusion from sacrament 1646, scandalous offences 1648.A. and O. i. 691, 854, 1209.

Main residence: Knebworth, Herts.
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Volume
Commons 1604-1629
Web Title

LYTTON, William (1586-1660)

Will
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Oxford 1644
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Religion
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